What does the brochure actually say?  The title alone seems to be pretty unclear.

Truthiness wrote:What does the brochure actually say?  The title alone seems to be pretty unclear.

Here is what Wright has said about middleclassness:


    Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must keep the captive ignorant educationally, but trained sufficiently well to serve the system. Also, the captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.

    Those so identified as separated from the rest of the people by:

        * Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
        * Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
        * Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us”.

    So, while it is permissible to chase “middle-incomeness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation
method-the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness”: If we avoid the snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B.  And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright, the leadership, resourcefulness, and example of their own talented persons.


Clear enough for you?


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Here is another take on the same issue from Investor's Business Daily:

Election '08: Barack Obama accuses John McCain of ignoring the concerns of middle-class Americans. But it's Obama who doesn't really give a hoot about them.

After their debate, Obama told supporters in North Carolina that McCain "had a lot to say about me, but he didn't have anything to say about you." He noted that his Republican foe didn't mention the words "middle class" once during their debate, while he plugged the important group three whole times.

In that panderfest, Obama vowed to "help" middle-class families, and make sure they get a "fair shake." He also pledged to get them "back on track," whatever that means. Truth is, Obama doesn't care about the middle class beyond its voting clout.

In his first memoir, he denigrates "middleclassness" as "psychological entrapment" that "hypnotizes" people into thinking they're better than others. He agrees with his socialist reverend that its pursuit should be "disavowed," because it just separates people into classes of "we" and "they," instead of "us."

As a community organizer in Chicago, Obama railed against suburban "white flight." He also frowned on blacks who left the crime-ridden streets of the inner city for the safer neighborhoods and better schools of the burbs. How dare they!

So why does Obama pay homage to the middle class now? Presidential votes. He's using the middle class as a means to an end — the end being the power to enact his radical agenda. In this, he's following his hero Saul "The Red" Alinsky's playbook.

Alinsky, the socialist street agitator who wrote "Rules for Radicals," detested the bourgeois "materialism" of the American middle class. But he advised his student radicals to court the middle class, even radicalize them when possible in favor of the cause.

Don't be like 1960s revolutionaries who made fun of the bourgeoisie, he warned. Learn the language of the middle class; share their experience. "Start them easy," he said. "Don't scare them off."

Alinsky revolutionaries don't flaunt their radicalism. They keep their hair trimmed and wear suits and ties. They're never outwardly rude. They don't use vulgar language in public. They show respect for authorities. Some even have mortgages and families.

But don't be fooled. Obama is an elitist who skipped the middle class and went straight to his Georgian mansion. He doesn't share your values, but he wants you to share your earnings to pay for his radical social experiment.

As McCain accurately argued during the debate, Obama this March voted for a Senate measure raising taxes on workers making $42,000 a year. So who's really on the side of the middle class?

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royalcrowncola: Are those direct quotes from him?

They are the quotes of Rev. Jeremiah Wright...who was the source for the ideas that Obama discussed under the rejection of middleclassness.  Certainly this material forms the context in which Obama is to be seen.