Race baiting is the term for an act of using racially derisive language, actions or other forms of communication, to anger, intimidate or incite a person or groups of people, or to make those persons behave in ways that are inimical to their personal or group interests.
This can also be accomplished by implying that there is an underlying race based motive in the actions of others towards the group baited, where none in fact exists.
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"On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity claimed that the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama's church, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, "has a very black-separatist point of view." Hannity played a video clip of an interview with Wright from the March 1 Hannity & Colmes, but did not play the portion in which Wright specifically stated that his church's point of view does not "assume superiority, nor does it assume separatism."
HANNITY: It's all about the black community, the black -- it's a black-separatist agenda. Now, he -- this pastor was supposed to be at his announcement this winter, when he said he was going to announce for president. All of the sudden, at the last minute, Barack Obama disinvited him.
From Wright's March 1 appearance on Hannity & Colmes:
COLMES: I want the public to understand where your church is coming from, because you're being accused of being a black-separatist church, and thus Obama is being accused by default of being a black separatist. Could you straighten that out for us, please?
WRIGHT: OK. The African-centered point of view does not assume superiority, nor does it assume separatism. It assumes Africans speaking for themselves as subjects in history, not objects in history. It comes from the principles of Kawaida, the second principle being Kujichagulia, which is self-determination -- us naming ourselves -- and not saying we are superior to anybody. We have no hierarchical arrangement. When you say an African-centered way of thinking -- African-centered philosophy, African-centered theology -- you're talking about one center. We're talking about something that's different, and different does not mean deficient --
COLMES: Aren't there black churches --
WRIGHT: -- nor does it mean superior or inferior. The whole notion of hierarchical, one's superior, "let's be separate because we're better," that's nothing -- has absolutely nothing to do with --
Hate. It's taught.
links
- Video here (http://mediamatters.org/items/200706260011)
Hannity making it up as he goes along.
So far your talking about Rev. Wright!
Hannity did play that part I watched it.
incluesiveness
Hate is preached at his church. Jesus taught us inclusiveness and love. Not to damning our country. Or hatred, such as Wright's teachings.
What does matter is the substance of the accusations. What matters is the sense of African American disenfranchisement. What matters is the reality of deep and brutal mistrust between the races. This is not about Wright and it is not about Obama. It is about us.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/jwalking/2008/03/rev-&&& #8203; #8203; #8203; wright.html
"Rev." Wright preaches hate for the country that gave him the right to speak. His word are against this country and Obama lifts him up in praise. this is why it MATTERS.
They are doing the harm to this country. This country and the first and only successful third party, Republicans, were put in power because of them wanting to end slavery in this country.
The Republican party went to war with their own countrymen to end slavery. Hundreds of thousand of American gave their lives to free the slaves. And did it!
What other country has EVER done that?
Rev. Wright has done something from the pulpit that is inherently wrong in the eye's of Christians. And he did it against the country. Also against the teachings of Jesus Christ.
More than 85% of Americans identify with the Christian religion. They are the ones offended by this.
The disenfranchisement and the deep, brutal mistrust between the races you speak of(I disagree to the depth) may have been set back with Rev. Wrights comments from a pulpit. And no one on your side is saying anything about the harm it has done.
Only about the comments you read or hear about the out right blasphemy.
"This is not about Wright and it is not about Obama. It is about us." We are not racist or filled with hate.