Obama's Rev. Jeremiah Wright full of HATE for the Whitey

It seems Barack Obama's favoured priest is in fact a racist who hates white people. Yes I understand there have been some bad things going on in the past. The thing is, that is the past. The US now has affirmative action to ensure the roles are reversed.
Kinda scary. I know Blacks have been historically mistreated. However, this is in the past. The USA is a different place now and I'm not saying they should forget about the past... Just get over it. Quit playing the race card they have affirmative action and this whole "we are black you are white" thing just leads to further separation of something that is moving together. If you are "black" Embrace the fact that Obama is considered capable in the eyes of all Americans and quit trying to separate. This kind of commentary can only do harm to the unity of a country.... Something these preachers thrive on.


As a general matter, I don't think it's fair to expect presidential candidates to be responsible for the wacky things religious leaders who support them say. Is it really incumbent upon Barack Obama to disassociate himself from Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton? Does John McCain really have to come out and repudiate this or that aspect of John Hagee's fundamentalist theology, just because Hagee has endorsed him. I don't think so. This is a big, religiously diverse country, and somebody's bound to be offended by the sincerely held beliefs of somebody else. It's unavoidable, and I think we ought to give candidates a lot of leeway.

But then there's the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor and the man Obama has identified as his spiritual mentor and father figure. Check out this passage from a recent sermon by Pastor Wright:



Heavy stuff. I find it hard to reconcile the irenic image Obama has with this kind of combustible, racialist rhetoric. If Wright were just any pro-Obama preacher, that'd be one thing (and not much of anything), but he's a man to whom Obama has been very close for some time, and to whom Obama looks up as a mentor. I'm just not getting what Obama sees in him, and it makes me wonder if Obama really is the uniter he's supposed to be -- or is it just an image covering a more radical kind of leftist identity politics?

Obama has addressed questions about the Rev. Wright in the past by saying that he doesn't agree with everything Wright says or believes. But the more most voters are exposed to the Rev. Wright's harsh words, the less plausible that response from Obama is going to be.