Mississippi God Damn !!! is a very well known and popular song by Nina Simone.
If Nina Simone can sing and record a song called Mississippi God Damn !!! then myself and the Rev. Wright can say God Damn America !!! whenever we are truly upset at what some person or element who purports to represent America might say. I say God Damn America !!! quite often. Why?
I say God Damn America !!! because I love this country with all my heart and soul and I hate it when its people are screwed over by racists, charlatans, dividers and greedheads and people who tell me our Constitution and the rule of law is toilet paper.
Saying God Damn America !!! with reference to the Irving Berlin song is not a scintilla different than the searing, sardonic and excruciating violent version of Our National Anthem played by Jimi Hendrix in July 1969.
If saying God Damn America !!! in a church is treason then Samuel Adams and his young cousin John Adams should have swung by the neck beneath a spacious Elm in Boston Common in 1775.
I say God Damn America !!! for the Native American People who for 400 years have been slaughtered and destroyed and enslaved and killed and forced to forget their culture and forced to un-learn their language and spit on their own heritage and give up all of their land under penalty of death or starvation from 1630 to the present in the United States all under the name of freedom.
I say this because my culture in Massachusetts has been utterly robbed and destroyed and stomped to oblivion because of this.
The United States has never even offered an apology for what it did, has done, and continues to do to Native Americans.
At least Germany has apologized for its Holocaust.
Yet it is considered racist for Native Americans to ask the U.S. to do for the remaining Native Americans what Germany has done for the slaughtered and remaining Jews.
So God Damn America !!!
I say it loud and I will say it proud until all the wrongs have been righted.
I say it with love for what this country could be ... and should be.
Cheers.
P.S. It should be noted The Rev. Jeremiah Wright (U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy) and James Hendrix (U.S. Army, Paratrooper, Ft. Benning, Georgia) are both African-American U.S. Military Veterans. Consider that before you call these men un-American. Thank you.