I noted the change 12 days ago.  Don't know exactly when they removed it. 

Your article was incomplete, missing the descriptions for each "concept".  The full text from the missing page is as below.

THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System, written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee, chaired by the late Vallmer Jordan in 1981.

Dr. Manford Byrd, our brother in Christ, withstood the ravage of being denied his earned ascension to the number one position in the Chicago School System.  His dedication to the pursuit of excellence, despite systematic denials, has inspired the congregation of Trinity United Church of Christ.  Prayerfully, we have called upon the wisdom of all past generations of suffering Blacks for guidance in fashioning an instrument of Black self-determination, the Black Value System.

Beginning in 1982, an annual Black Value System – Educational Scholarship in the name of Dr. Byrd was instituted.  The first recipient of the Dr. Manford Byrd Award, which is given annually to the man or woman who best exemplifies the Black Value System, was our brother, Dr. Manford Byrd.

These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered.  They consist of the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God.  “The God of our weary years” will give us the strength to give up prayerful passivism and become Black Christian Activists, soldiers for Black freedom and the dignity of all humankind.
2. Commitment to the Black Community.  The highest level of achievement for any Black person must be a contribution of strength and continuity of the Black Community.
3. Commitment to the Black Family.  The Black family circle must generate strength, stability and love, despite the uncertainty of externals, because these characteristics are required if the developing person is to withstand warping by our racist competitive society. 

   Those Blacks who are blessed with membership in a strong family unit must reach out and expand that blessing to the less fortunate.

4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education.  We must forswear anti-intellectualism.  Continued survival demands that each Black person be developed to the utmost of his/her mental potential despite the inadequacies of the formal education process.  “Real education” fosters understanding of ourselves as well as every aspect of our environment.  Also, it develops within us the ability to fashion concepts and tools for better utilization of our resources, and more effective solutions to our problems.  Since the majority of Blacks have been denied such learning, Black Education must include elements that produce high school graduates with marketable skills, a trade or qualifications for apprenticeships, or proper preparation for college.

   Basic education for all Blacks should include Mathematics, Science, Logic, General Semantics, Participative Politics, Economics and Finance, and the Care and Nurture of Black minds.

5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence.   To the extent that we individually reach for, even strain for excellence, we increase, geometrically, the value and resourcefulness of the Black Community.  We must recognize the relativity of one’s best; this year’s best can be bettered next year.  Such is the language of growth and development.  We must seek to excel in every endeavor.
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic.  “It is becoming harder to find qualified people to work in Chicago.”  Whether this is true or not, it represents one of the many reasons given by businesses and industries for deserting the Chicago area.  We must realize that a location with good facilities, adequate transportation and a reputation for producing skilled workers will attract industry.  We are in competition with other cities, states and nations for jobs.  High productivity must be a goal of the Black workforce.
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect.  To accomplish anything worthwhile requires self-discipline.  We must be a community of self-disciplined persons if we are to actualize and utilize our own human resources, instead of perpetually submitting to exploitation by others.  Self-discipline, coupled with a respect for self, will enable each of us to be an instrument of Black Progress and a model for Black Youth.
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.”  Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that 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 are separated from the rest of the people by:

   1. Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
   2. Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
   3. 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.”
   4. So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.”  If we avoid this 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.
9. Pledge to Make the Fruits of All Developing and Acquired Skills Available to the Black Community.
    
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.
11. Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System.
12. Personal Commitment to Embracement of the Black Value System.  To measure the worth and validity of all activity in terms of positive contributions to the general welfare of the Black Community and the Advancement of Black People towards freedom.

RRAM Tough! 

I wonder how hard Hillary pushed this cart?  I am not sure it is entirely fair to evaluate Obama by his friends or acquaintances. It would seem the proper course is to find a Journalist intimately familiar with the issues at hand and interview him to the teeth. It's only fair to measure him in light of his own beliefs.

A sad moment in journalism history.  Actual WSJ reporters are doing clean-up for the Obama campaign.

In this article, the WSJ describes Rev. Wright's racism as merely "blunt" talk rooted in Black cultural blah, blah, blah.

And of course they leave out the money quote about White man inventing AIDS to commit genocide on colored people.

Tell the editors what you think of this.

Sick and sad.

Sick and sad

If the Manford Byrd, named in the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee, was in any way related to the great Senator from West Virginia?

I just this minute clicked my link to Trinity UCC's About page and the Black Value System is there.

Furthermore, the "Expanded" Black Value System is here:

http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html

This report is BS!

If you want the real skinny on Obama, I suggest you go here:

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

I guess it's OK for them to practice bigotry and prejudice, because after all, they were victims of it. Isn't that what the "black leaders" are teaching their followers? It's OK to practice hate toward a group if members of that group hated you first.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

You can access the church's website in past years:

 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tucc.org/about.htm

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Notice that on this list that commitment to community comes before commitment to family. Where have heard that before? Oh, I remember; the socialism/communism values list. Strong nuclear families are the foundation of all other aspects of our society; when this foundation is weakend by government and cultural decisions, the results are evident in higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, out of wedlock births, abortion, etc., and increasing dependance on the government to provide support when they are the very ones who have created many of them by the laws and policies they enact!

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System, written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by the late Vallmer Jordan in 1981. 

Let us call the espoused Black Value System what it really is, a Black Separatist Movement.

They forgot to list two other precepts:

13. Dedication to receiving reparations (money) to ease the pain our forefather suffered at the hands of the racists white man.

14. Commitment to the establishment of our own state where we can be truly free to pursue our own value system. 

The only thing that's missing is a logo of a raised gloved-fist in the air.

"...including a white official from the parent United Church of Christ who said she feels welcome at predominantly black Trinity." Must be one of the Guilty White Liberals who wear a self-made "Kick Me" sign...