Once more into the breach, my boys and girls, once more! It’s gather-the-troops time for a workday protest rally in the Loop about guns because of shooting deaths on the South Side. Father Pfleger and Saint Sabina (pray for us) to the rescue! We are asking people to join us once again at the State [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Hot time for cool dude
Rev. Jeremiah Wright came to poet Maya Angelou’s birthday party at Chicago’s black Catholic cathedral and made a big hit: “When he came out, people literally went wild,” said St. Sabina’s pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger. Did they have far to go? That said, how wild did they get literally? Lost all control? Began to [...]
Understanding Jeremiah Wright
Chi Trib’s Manya Brachear is at pains to have her readers think kindly of Obama’s preacher’s sermonizing: On the Sunday in 2003 when Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. shouted “God damn America” from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, he defined damnation as God’s way of holding humanity accountable for its actions. Rattling off [...]
Puffing Bishop Braxton
For some background on the Bishop-Braxton-in-Belleville follies, the careful reader might want to refer to items I gathered in my now-dormant “The Churches” blog, going back to June of ‘05. This I offer in view of the rash of pro-Braxton sentiment expressed in comments — 121 in all of these — on a long (3,350 [...]
Chances of O. in Pa.
About Obama in Pennsylvania, where he’s expected to lose: There simply aren’t enough blacks, young voters, and latte liberals to build a successful coalition for a Democratic candidate in a general election. He’s of each group and speaks to their condition. Tags: Barack+Obama, Pennsylvania
Thus spoke Emerson
Before there was Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School on Boul Wash, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High, and before that, Emerson grade school. There still is the Emerson Library at Brooks. Old names fade away. This Emerson fellow bears looking into. He was America’s chief public intellectual, to use a hot phrase of a few [...]
Greeley (belly)aches
I’d like to be able to feel Andrew Greeley’s pain, but he hurts in so many places, I wouldn’t know where to start. It’s a darn shame Obama had to “defend his outspoken pastor,” says G. in his Sun-Times column. I would have said he had to defend himself for picking the guy, and not [...]
Save jobs for SEIU?
Will Chi’s S. Side Chatham neighborhood — “Pill Hill” for its many physician residents — get a Wal-Mart or won’t it? Where do consumers come into the labor-union-solidarity picture anyhow? Arnita Mock Harris, [a] resident, said she and her mother travel to Evergreen Park and Lansing to shop at Wal-Mart and would rather shop in [...]
Tell it, brother
What better sign do we have that Obama Central is running scared in the wake of Rev. Jeremiah’s sermons than this plaintive plea by Sun-Times columnist and O. enthusiast Mary Mitchell: We get it. A lot of white people were offended by snippets of sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. [She doesn’t get it.]But [...]
The grandmother issue
Count me among those who wondered if the grandmother who worried about black men she passed on the street were still living. Answer: yes. Here’s John Fund: Mr. Obama’s campaign has made clear that his 84-year old grandmother, who has asked to be left alone, should be considered off-limits to political reporters. But yesterday, it was [...]
