Guest Commentary: Obama & the New World Order by Rev. C. Solomon
Obama and the New World Order
by Rev. C. Solomon
I have been discoursing with purported members of Senator Obama’s political inner-circle. These individuals cannot see any conflict between Tavis Smiley’s outrage given that Senator Obama attended and spoke so gallantly (to defend Israel) at this Jewish conference, when on the other hand he snubbed the State of the Black Union Conference.
Many black Americans do not see a conflict between Obama’s politics as usual and his pledge to continue America’s venal and unbalanced support of Israel in deference to balancing the scales between Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah…! Some Americans have been duped into believing that Obama is simply playing possum, but once he gets elected Superman with his unfurled cape streaming in the wind is going to spring into action.
Folks, in my opinion, the reason that the USA is having so much turmoil and trouble with respect to Middle-Eastern and Near-Eastern nations, among other things, is its unfair and unbalanced support towards Israel against not only Hamas and Hezbollah but against other nations within close proximity like Syria, Iran…, and other nations that are at a greater distance!
America has pledged to destroy itself and its standing in the world right along with its 51st state, Israel. And even though American Christians have biblically inspired and romantic feelings toward the Israel of antiquity, the Israel of today was formulated, created and populated as a result of actions that took place in the UN in 1947/48. Much like it is within American leadership circles, many within Israel’s leadership ranks are nothing more than ungod-like natural born killers.
The Palestinian (Arab and Muslim Semitic people) were summarily evicted from their homelands and their homes, neighborhoods…., their homelands were turned over to the mixed European Jewish Diaspora who returned to Israel from European nations following WWII. When you hear Arabs and Muslims say that Israel does not have a right to exist, they base their opinions on the actions that were decided in the U.N. in 1947/48, having been pushed particularly by Great Britain, the USA and a few other nations. A nearly equal amount of nations abstained from the western backed insouciant injustice that took place in the United Nations in 1947/48.
The colonial powers also considered repatriating black Americans to Panama and the Jews to African Ghana at one time, and we are all aware of how the colonial powers sub-divided Canada. That Senator Obama has made it clear that he will continue politics as usual does not bode well for Israel’s neighboring countries, for Cuba, for Nicaragua, the DPRK…; and he has already confirmed my feelings that voting for him to be President of the USA would summarily result in repeating the mistakes of the past!
As some fair-minded Americans have recognized, America’s hegemonic policies around the world have been wrong in the past, and they are wrong today - even if they are supported by Christian ministers who have rejected the roadmap for peace in the M-E, e.g., Robertson, Hagee, the late Falwell, Parsley and about 300,000 other American ministers. These individuals have an agenda, and it has nothing to do with true biblical eschatology.
It takes courage to stand up for right and to fight for truth and justice. I’ve said it before and others are beginning to see it that when it comes to matters that truly matter to minorities and 3-rd world people, Obama has simply retreated – he has been muted. I go on record as saying that I believe that Senator Obama will accomplish just about as much in America and the world, as the two successive black Presidents in a nation whose citizens are 95% black, South Africa, have accomplished for the masses - that is if Senator Obama were to prevail and become President.
It has been my hope that whoever would become President of the USA next, would set politics aside and right the wrongs of an American colonial and hegemonic past and present - that Presidential aspirant has not appeared on the scenes yet!
Just as God has planned the establishment of a new world order in order to resolve the world’s problems; to the extent that many in the crop of the world’s 3-rd world nations, that have been held in tow in their weakened status (mostly as a result of actions by Great Britain going back to the Treaty at Versailles and for the past 60 years by the US), a change of American foreign and domestic white supremacist policies, as well as a new world order must be established.
Neither Senator Obama nor his youthful talib inner-circle, seem to grasp the need for revolutionary change, they talk a good game, but that’s about it. The USA must begin to act in accordance with the rule of divine and international law.
Is Reverend Solomon against Obama as some have said? Is Reverend Solomon an anti-Semite? Answer, Reverend Solomon is for right and for social justice for all nations and people of the world. I will not support any person, black or white, who will support or enforce the injustices of the past of present, in this case American injustice.
With respect to being anti-Semite, Arabs are Semitic people too, and if I am anti-Semitic so was the Apostle Paul who wrote in Romans 10, that among other things that Israel has left the righteousness of God and gone about to establish its own righteousness. God had to judge Israel on many occasions for its injustices, which many times resulted from Israel being evicted from Palestine. That America continues to bolster Israeli injustice speaks to the flawed and deep-seated unjust policies in the USA!
It is amazing to me, but should not be, that America has continued to support secularist leaders in Israel over religious Muslims and Arabs of the world. Obama has capitulated already on many occasions. In order to become President of the USA, he has already retreated from standing up for world-wide justice and freedom for all people! This young whelp is not what the world needs right now, he lacks courage, vision or substance!
Whenever America and any of its leaders begin to practice true justice and to adhere to the rule of law itself and themselves, America, a nascent 200 year old nation, will demand the same from Israel, and level the playing field towards other nations. We don’t have much time to do so, another Super-Power is emerging that will soon place its imprint on the world!
June 9th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Sen. Barack Obama has outdone all others in his pandering to the Israeli lobby (”Obama stresses support for Israel,” Baltimore Sun June 5).
He has now promised to go even further than the Bush administration has in giving Israel just about anything it wants.
It seems that no one can be elected to public office in the United States unless he or she bows to the demands of the Israeli lobby. But Mr. Obama has gone beyond the normal kow-towing.
George Washington warned against a “passionate attachment” to any foreign country.
We should heed his call.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Thanks for this commentary Rev. Solomon. While I’m sure much buzz will be generated by many of your positions on Sen. Obama, I appreciate how you reminded us of how the Israeli state was created and why that question of Israel’s “right to exist” is a lynchpin to the peace process for many in the Middle East who had front row seats to that injustice. You are right in that many in our Faith have gravitated toward a romantic, unqualified, embrace of “all things Israel” based on a surface and elementary socio-theological understanding of the Holy Writ.
TO THOSE WHO ARE SUPPORTERS OF SEN. OBAMA
Please feel free to submit your commentary to me as well. While voices on this site (perhaps even including mine) have been pretty critical of Sen. Obama as of late, I want it to be clear that this is not an “Obama-bashing” blog. All opinions and positions are welcome and I will do all I can to make sure all voices are heard here. Thank you.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
All I can say is WOW!! A lot of hatred for a man who has NOT taken office. A lot of hatred for a man who does not have a record of betraying blacks. A lot of this stems from his dismissal of Rev. Wright I know. Good riddance. It is not his show and it seems like he was an operative anyway. And it is also strange how Obama says he will talk to Iran(the only western leader to say it) and Israel hates that but that point will not get too much mention if you are looking under every rock and in every gutter to downgrade a man who has not won anything yet. I think something more is going on here as this is a blog based in faith. Obama evidently didn’t pass the faith test by going the other way from Rev. Wright. Once again, all I can say is…wow.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I’m glad to see that not all Black folk are willing to purchase a ticket on the Obama train!
Obama is a media narcotic, administered to us by the 1% of the population that holds 47% of the nation’s wealth, to advance the illusion that substantial change has occurred, and to keep those at the bottom hopeful and pre-occupied.
We have a sister like Cynthia McKinney who if running to become the Green Party presidential candidate and Black media continues to marginalize and undervalue this sister who had done nothing but fight for and love Black people. What’s wrong with us!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Thank you Reverend Brown
And to everyone else, who responded, with respect to Jews and Arab and Muslims, please recall that God also dispatched an angel to communicate directly with Hagar (on several occasions) just as was done thousands of years later with the Virgin Mary. That American Christians write-off Arabs and Muslims wholesale is a travesty of divine proportions.
Israel has long since become a secularist nation. Christian Americans who continue to fund Israel’s war chest via the government and through direct and indirect giving are not allowed to proselyte in Israel (I did not say the ROC) - it is against the law. Americans should join with those citizens in Israel, in my opinion, who have been repudiating the behaviors of their government in favor of making peace with the Palestinians. At the rank and file level, Palestinians and the majority of the people of Israel get along just fine!
Their leaders, like America’s past and present leaders persist in their quest to bolster division in the Middle-East. I spake with Reverend Browning from MD, and attended Minister Farrakhan’s press conference at the National Press Club following their returns from the Middle-East several years ago. I trust what our ministers disclosed as a result of what they experienced and after meeting with sides, Yasser Arafat and his supporters and Ariel Sharon and his supporters. If Yasser Arafat was a terrorist, clearly Sharon was a terrorist! And the consensus of our ministers was at the time, that Israel is completely out of control.
If the current world order will be permitted to remain intact, those nations who have been oppressed and suppressed as a result of America being at the top of the current world order will continue to suffer, no matter who is President, particularly if he or she were to persist in pursuing the policies of the past. America’s allies, over the past 7-years, have spoken truth to power and repudiated the behavior and policies of their long-term ally, the United States of America.
With respect to Common Sense’s comment, voters should always scrutinize candidates regardless of their race, I am certain that Senator Obama has done the same over the past; just as he has done in the present with Senator McCain and other candidates against whom he has vied. He does not sound like a change candidate, as purported, to this observer! And please recall what Muhammad Ali said years ago when one of our heroes the Reverend Jesse Jackson ran for the office of President, he said, “not just anyone can be President of the United States”. Obama must prove that he has what it takes - that is what the elders (me included) fought for dating all the way back to Nat Turner, Frederick Douglas, W.E.B, Booker T, MLK…!
From what I have observed America is not fighting for truth and justice (or a nation like Cuba would not have been embargoed for a half-century now, regardless of the hurt to the Cuban people), on the other hand and as it has always been proudly proclaimed by past and present American leaders, America is fighting for American interest, and as a consequence white supremacy – truth and justice has little to do with American foreign policy!
We need bold new leadership, and someone who can stand up, speak truth to power and eviscerate the errors of the past domestically, and American injustice and America’s unjust policies around the world! Even Papa George Bush once said, America ought to become a kinder and gentler nation. That way of thinking cost him a second-term in office, perhaps that is the real reason that Obama keeps retreating with respect to issues that matter!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am
An error was brought to my attention with respect to my post. I must have had Canada on the brain or something. I meant to write, “…and we are all aware of how the colonial powers sub-divided Africa”.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Common Sense,
The only semblance of hatred that I have ever witnessed on this blog has come from one source, and you are that one source!
I have faith that in time your heart will be purged from bigotry and that you will learn to abstain from making boorish and empty claims. No one has done more disservice to Senator Obama on this blog than you have, and still you purport to be an Obama supporter.
Perhaps the Lord placed you on my mind tonight, whatever the case may be I was thinking of your disparaging and racist digs at Senator Clinton, in prior posts you have frequently referred to her as Ms. Anne.
What would a Senator Obama or his white mother have to say about someone who claims to be an Obama supporter, but cannot stop attacking someone who is a part of their own cultural heritage with racial slurs? What appellation would you apply to the Senator’s mother, his grandmother or his Scotch-Irish relatives, Ms. Anne or some other pejorative? Or how about the Senator himself? Have you ignored the fact that he happens to be half white himself.
I suspect that the Obama coalition, or cotillion might be a more appropriate description, of white-liberals who have coalesced with black fascists in order to attempt to put the Senator into office will eventually collapse. Sooner or later white liberals will realize just who all is on their team!
Embracing a man in order to get what you want who happens to be bi-racial, even though you obviously dislike Caucasians, once again suggests that you (and others like you) harbor in your hearts something that is in need of being healed. Remember Dr. King’s message, it is by the content of their character, not the color of their skin!
You young people want to take over the reigns of power in America, however, you still haven’t learned to respect diversity, and America is a culturally diverse nation!
June 12th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
@Rev. Solomon,
I know I said I would not respond to your white loving, Uncle Ruckus of the Boondocks acting tirades. That’s exactly who you are. The voice of Uncle Ruckus. You would take a bullet for Hillary, i.e. Miss Ann. You defend her tooth and nail in every post. In case you have not noticed, she lost Ruckus..er I mean Rev. Solomon. You hate Obama, myself and any black person that does not agree with you. Slavery has lasted longer in America than it hasn’t(count the years), but you are so self hating, so anti young black people that it is sad. Fine Rev., you hate black people who don’t think like you. Take some of your energy that you defend Miss Ann and use it to reach out to or understand where the next generation is coming from. A lot of us walking around now did not have to bow our heads when in the company of white people so they can’t relate. I can’t stand your constant denegration of black people. Do they still make that cream that lightens your skin??? Maybe you can back order. Check into it.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Common Sense ( an oxymoron):
I am still waiting for you to tell me which pejorative you use to describe Senator Obama’s white relatives (his mom, grandmother and other Scotch-Irish relatives, fellow Obama non-black supporters and your mixed relatives – most of us derive from mixed ancestry). And I am also waiting for you to tell me which of the venal pejoratives you use to describe Senator Obama since he is half-white. I don’t have a problem with Senator Obama running for the office of President of the USA if he wants to run for the office of President, for just like every other American born person who is above the age of 35, he has the right to do so. You could even run for President I suppose, and clearly that would be a travesty!
Just as I did not believe that George Bush was qualified to be President (and he is Caucasian), and he proved that he was not qualified (Ambassador Alan Keyes once said: The man does not have the mental capacity to a President of the USA), he proved that on more than one occasion).
1) I simply do not feel that Senator Obama is qualified to be President (nothing in his resume demonstrates that he is), even though he meets the legal criteria which I also feel should be revisited.
2). I don’t agree with many of the positions that he has taken.
3). He has not demonstrated that he possesses the mettle to stand up to the pressure that he will be facing that often comes from those who harbor the spirit of white supremacy, or of late black supremacist citizens of America like you.
My larger problem is with nascent ‘devil on horses’ Darfur-like and supposed black-fascist supporters of Senator Obama like you”! One thing for sure, Senator Obama is not a racist, give him credit for that. But you on the other hand have done nothing but spew racial hatred given the incessant racial epitaphs that you have constantly employed on this blog in order to demonstrate your ignorance. All you have done is to prove that so far is that you have a very serious problem, and it is clear that you don’t have ‘common sense’! Another young man like you lumped me in with Shelby Steele, Condolezza Rice, Colin Powell, Judge Thomas…, he said that all of us were Uncle Tom’s. I say to you what I said to him, then what does that make you, a half a Tom, since you support a man who is half-white. I may or may not agree with all of the positions held or taken by the form-named, however, each one of them are erudite, accomplished social contributers that I am still proud of, they have contributed something to mankind and to our race that neither you nor the young man that I referred to have done - civility and respect for other people!
I am pleased that you were not censored, we all need to engage in political discourse! The job of the elders is to teach the youngsters. My suggestion to you is to enroll in an African American studies department at a local university and get up to speed. What comes out of your mouth is a reflection of what you harbor in your heart. You really ought to seek spiritual guidance - something is wrong with your heart!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
@Rev. Solomon,
What respect have you shown Rev.? You are just as guilty as I am(worse probably) of name calling and negative statements. Most posts that i’ve written i’ve attacked your positions but not you. Now you have really denegrated yourself as a so-called Rev. Of what church?? Who ordained you??? I could be wrong but you were not back with the apostles who engaged with Jesus himself so what right do you even have to call yourself a Reverend? But then again, these days that title in many cases(not all) is equal to being a thief, pimp or hustler so in that regard it fits you. And as a so-called Rev., why do you continue to rant and rave against me?? Because I disagree with you??? Because I don’t love whites the way you do??? And then you have the nerve to quote Alan Keys?? ALAN KEYS??? Rev. the best thing you can do is think of a new scheme to rip off your congregation( the ol’ building fund racket perhaps) and continue along your course of trickeration(Rev. Don King) and flat out lunacy. You are entertaing though.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
entertaining though.
June 14th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Common Sense (You’re worth it)
It is actually more important than mere entertainment. I would not waste my time with you if I believed that was all that I was doing, entertaining you. My real purpose for doing so is that you remind me of the Apostle Paul and other icons in scripture that God chose before the foundation of the Earth. God often choose individuals who were full of fire and misplaced zeal. Moses was a murderer along with David the womanizer and Paul (the completely misdirected religious icon initially), Peter the knife and all of the rest.
Jeremiah was conflicted over race, having issues with the skin of the Ethiopian, the same one likely who rescued him from the dungeon. Peter didn’t eat unclean things (ritual cleanliness and racial issues), and of course Miriam and Aaron had problems with African women – particularly one Ethiopian woman who captured their brother Moses’ heart. Yet, God saw something in all of them.
I took a voluntary sabbatical from parish ministry; however, when I pastored, a person like King David would not have been approved to serve in the music ministry of a church that I pastored. Yet God in ITS infinite wisdom saw something in the man.
I see something in you and many like you, you are vested and care deeply about the social conditions of this nation, our people and I believe the world. El Hajj Malik El Shabazz eventually had his epiphany and discovered who the really enemy happened to be; I believe that you will have your epiphany as well. Right now, and don’t be offended, but you remind me of “devils on horses”, ala the men of Darfur, aka the Janjiweed, sorry I can’t spell it. And what do they do, they go around mercilessly slaughtering their own people!
I have not slaughtered anyone, what I have been doing is to simply scrutinize black political candidates just as I have done with candidates from every other racial group. This is not a game, lives are at stake and if we don’t get it right, not just 300 million Americans, try 7 billion people worldwide will continue to experience unfair suffering!
June 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Common Sense,
I will also leave you with this. As you likely know already Russell Simmons customarily attends the Annual Legislative Conference Meetings in Washington DC that are sponsored by our black Congresspeople. And, Shaun Puffy Combs has being doing his best to get young people involved in the political process, just as Russell and others have been doing.
We want young people involved in the political process - I am pleased to know that you are vested.
Now I am uncertain as to how you will take this tidbit; however, I could only wish that Senator Obama would show the strength of conviction that you have shown to fight for a position - even if we don’t always agree. That is what I am looking for in the junior Senator from Illinois. I am also hoping that he will reconsider some of the stances that he has already taken, or I will not vote for him! One should not compromise principle in order to seek the so-called highest elected office in the land!
June 15th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
@ Rev. Solomon,
If I have offended you in any way(and I know that I have) I apologize deeply. I feel very strongly about certain things(race being one of them) and I can be very one-sided and also throw a cheap shot in when I get a chance. That is how I see the game, the war or whatever you want to call it being played. Right or wrong, I will always be pro-black but if I disagree with someone, that does not automatically make them anti-black. I realize that and in my Obama euphoria(a black man on the brink of history) I may have gotten off the path of respect. Once again, I apologize for any ill will. I will close by saying that I wish yourself and any other fathers who read this blog(even if we disagree) a very, very Happy Father’s Day.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:54 am
Common Sense
Given what we have experienced, and what our ancestors have experienced in America, a land which I often refer to as ‘the land of the free and the home of the slave’, is it any wonder that any of us are not sensitive when it comes to racial issues?
I was watching a docudrama on television tonight. A group of blacks from the Philadelphia area, 30 or 40 of them, visited the motherland. Speaking of paradoxes, the Senegalese and others could not understand why the visiting blacks were upset given their history or experiences in America? Some of the natives told the Americans that they could only wish that they could have been enslaved, or that their ancestors had been enslaved and taken to America.
My point: I often wonder why all black Americans aren’t crazy? It is amazing that wherever we go and often whomever we talk to, other people, even our own, are always telling us that we are better off having been enslaved, brought to the land of degradation and mistreated in America. Having said that however, this was the first group that I ever heard of that was willing to change places! Given their impoverished social conditions in Africa, this group of natives explained that ‘they would prefer to be slaves in America, than to be free in their homelands’.
I understand where they are coming from given their conditions, however, isn’t it sad when people believe that a depraved social condition like slavery is preferable to being free? There are alternatives!
I attended a church service a decade ago where Bishop Carlton Pearson was the visiting keynote speaker. This mega-church was made up of a predominately white congregation. Bishop Pearson thanked the whites, during this Black History Month celebration, and their ancestors for enslaving our ancestors, explaining that if they hadn’t enslaved us, we would have never found Jesus. I wanted to pop him in the mouth, particularly when all of the white people in the church stood up and cheered and applauded after he made these ridiculous remarks!
I thought, well, he apparently never read where the Lord dispensed Phillip to meet and minister, not to enslave, the Ethiopian Eunuch. My personal opinion is that too much emphasis has been placed on Calvinism and other Western-centric religious models. Dr. Alan Keyes received similar applause and a standing ovation at a rally where he was a panelist; he too had titillated the ears of the predominately white audience, explaining how he wouldn’t loose his mind if they called him nig like other blacks would do – he practically invited white Americans to continue calling us nigs. The way he explained it, that it was not the prosecutor of the term that had the problem, but the recipient was the one who had the problem.
I know what you mean Common Sense - you’re good people, just keep fighting the fight, and simply keep in mind (and you already know this) there are good white people!
Finally, I agree with Representative Barbara Lee who spoke these words at a CBC Legislative Conference session several years ago, she said, we should stop talking about racism in America and call it what it is, white supremacy! You and I talked about her before or at least that she served on late Representative Shirley Chisholm’s election committee; she is an erudite, no-nonsense person.
And having said that, all of us know that the spirit of white supremacy is alive and well in America. At the same time all of us know that all whites are not white supremacists – they hate that spirit as much as we do. I simply love good people! Let’s keep fighting the good fight together - you didn’t harm me, I respect your willingness to fight! And let’s all toughen Obama up – he’s too weak on some very serious issues – the ones that really matter!
And thank you for your warm wishes on Father’s Day, I trust that you had a Happy Father’s Day as Well!