Steve Byas
Woody and Wright
by Steve Byas
Oklahoma's home-grown Communist Woody Guthrie was certainly a man ahead of his time. In 1948, he wrote a song in support of illegal aliens from Mexico. He inspired a generation of leftist hippie "folk singers" in the 1960s. And, he had many of the same hate-filled ideas that were recently expressed by the "spiritual" guide of leftist presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Probably the most memorable of the statements made by Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright was his angry opposition to the singing of the inspiring song, God Bless America. Wright preferred to the take God's name in vain, from the pulpit, instead. How could anyone oppose the singing of God Bless America?
It was Woody Guthrie who first expressed dislike of the song written by Irving Berlin, and sung by Kate Smith. Hatred of the song led Guthrie to write his own song, This Land is Your Land. Imposed on probably three generations or more of school children, This Land is best known for its first verse, which has led many to mistakenly consider it a "patriotic" song.
This Land is anything but a patriotic song. The song is a frontal assault upon the concept of private property. In a later verse, Guthrie wrote that he saw a big wall that "tried to stop me." As Guthrie wrote, "A sign was painted said: Private Property," but on the other side "it didn't say nothing‹This land was made for you and me."
In other words, Guthrie believed in the common ownership of property. Perhaps that is why Guthrie wrote one of his 174 columns ("Woody Sez") in a Communist Party newspaper defending Joseph Stalin for invading Poland in 1939. After all, the farmers and workers of Poland needed to be "liberated" from oppression, and brought into the "paradise" of the Soviet Union.
Liberation is a word often used by Communists to describe their conquering other peoples, and forcing them into the slavery of the socialist state. Liberation theology is simply a perversion of the Christian gospel into a tool for spreading communist ideology, and the Black Liberation theology of hate preached by Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, is the same thing, as well, with an unhealthy dose of black anti-white racial hatred included.
In the Black Liberation theological view, Jesus is the leftist revolutionary, fighting the oppressed, such as the poor and mistreated minorities. The founder of Black Liberation theology said that Malcolm X was not that far off when he called the "white man" the devil.
But, Woody Guthrie was already preaching a form of liberation theology back in the old days. In Guthrie's perverted form of Christianity, Jesus Christ was not the savior for the sins of human beings, but rather a social revolutionary.
Guthrie wrote a song, Jesus Christ, in which our Lord and Savior calls for redistribution of the wealth. That is the reason "they" (undefined, but it is implied it is the rich and powerful) laid Jesus Christ in His grave.
Who "nailed Him on the cross?" Why, in Guthrie's song it was the bankers and the preachers, the "big landlord", who proceeded to "nail Jesus Christ in the sky."
Of course, in Jeremiah Wright's perverted religion, Jesus was Black and got lynched, not crucified, but you get the idea. After all, in Wright's view, the Jews are the bad guys in the Middle East, and when those Islamic extremists hit us on September 11th, it was just our "chickens coming home to roost."
Two leftist peas in the socialist pod, Woody Guthrie and Jeremiah Wright. And to think that Okemah, Oklahoma, holds a festival every year honoring Guthrie. Maybe next year, they'll invite Obama's parson to give the invocation.
Steve Byas is editor of the Oklahoma Constitution.
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