Hi goin fishn,
"I think that you will find that Obama may profess a liking or admiration for a Black minister, but that Obama's own actions will be far different from that Black Minister.
Most politicians understand this dynamic, and if Black chuches are in their districts, they visit them on a regular basis. For any politician to be using this as an issue against Obama is playing the race card in a most foul manner."
There are black churches and then there are black churches, but the black church that we are talking about here is a racist black church led by a less that wholly patriotic reverand. To state that any politician that points this up is "playing the race card in a most foul manner" is rediculous.
White America has just spent the last 40+ years trying to come to terms with its' own racism, but I don't think that means that we have to accept or be blind to the racism of others as some sort of pennance. I understand that others don't feel the same about this, but I believe they are in the minority, except perhaps in the media.
Critical self examination is desirable, but I just don't see the majority of Americans being that self-loathing as to elect a man that admires and supports a preacher that has said and done the things that this Rev. Wright has.
"Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America."
and this:
"Wright laced into America's establishment, blaming the "white arrogance" of America's Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the "United States of White America." Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made."
Regards,
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AI
