I saw your excellent online story today titled, "As Obama seeks re-election, his former church expands its vision."
Adding it to my Web site, but with a different header, the story raises my hopes for an America after our current abusive administration has left. Attributing your story, my headline instead read, "Obama's former church drops social justice. Wants to earn it the old fashioned way in pride of ownership."
If this is the church's long-term objective, it is welcomed news to what had happened when Katrina hit New Orleans, African Americans sitting in their homes waiting for someone else to move them out of harm's way. While they were sawing holes in their roofs to escape the rising water, a nearby Vietnamese-American fishing community had already made its connections with getting out of New Orleans on its own, not asking for nor wanting any government help. If you had read stories at the time from the useless mainstream media, you probably wouldn’t know Vietnamese immigrants had even existed near New Orleans.
It was finally later reported by an interested newsman that a Vietnamese grandmother, who had gone through Communism, had commented, in relationship to her experience, that the hurricane was like a pimple on her side. This was while some elites in the media chose to report sharks were swimming in streets, blacks were eating their dead, and black women were being raped in the sports dome, none of it turning out to be true. This was while many useless, spoon-fed progressive journalists didn’t even care about the Vietnamese story, following too often their university-trained worthless mission of, "If it bleeds, it leads."
It's time the media started doing its “constitutional” job in reporting citizens who use America's freedom to stand on their own. Instead the mainstream media continues to choose to jump into bed with the weasels of the Democrat Party, running shotgun for a corrupt Washington administration that steals the people blind.
While the party’s arrogant golfer-in-chief speaks of spreading the wealth as his answer for success, the Vietnamese understood that his kind of social justice was “the jail of nowhere.” Social justice can result in a lifetime spent in mediocrity, the recipient sitting on a well-worn couch waiting for someone else's check to pay for commodities down to toilet paper.
So if I read your article correctly, hurrah for the new direction of this church on the south side of Chicago. Maybe the excitement will spread down to Gary, Indiana, returning that city to the melting pot that once upon a time had made it a hard-working community, looking to itself rather than others for self-reliance. If you have ever seen the movie “A Christmas Story,” you will know the values of that generation near Hobart, Indiana, a wonderful and humorous view of an America that worked and where liberty flourished.
In the end the more money the federal government threw at Gary, the more corruption it bred not unlike the black mold that grew from leaking roofs while people sat waiting for their checks from the federal treasury year after year.
Once these people decide to finally get out into the sunshine and make it on their own, just like the Vietnamese did in New Orleans, Gary, Indiana, will rebound again, drying up the corruption that has consumed it.
To grow again, Americans need to remember, just like this church, that the mission of truth has never changed. Necessity is still the ONLY mother of invention.
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Original Article from the Chicago Tribune
As Obama seeks re-election, his former church expands its vision