The mainstream media is having a field day with the recorded sermons of Rev.
Jeremiah Wright, recently-retired pastor at Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ. Right-wingers and not-so right-wingers are screaming that Obama denounce his longtime spiritual advisor for saying, "God damn America" in a sermon.
Barack Obama should do nothing of the kind. It's bad enough that Obama has backpedalled and made some statement comparing Wright to a daffy old uncle. How insulting! If Obama really sees Wright as his spiritual mentor, then he should have the courage to defend him in public.
Most folks know I have come reluctantly to support Clinton over Obama. I did so because I did not believe Obama's rhetoric was anything more than that - rhetoric. But if Obama were to say, "Y'all live one week as a black person in America and come back and we'll talk then." or if he were to say, "If America listened to Rev. Wright, then maybe we wouldn't be in the situation we are today." I would throw out my "Hillary" yard sign and toss my "Hillary" buttons in the garbage can. But can he?
That's the $64,000 question. Sure Geraldine Ferraro's statements about Obama were revolting. But they pale in comparison to the media attacks upon Rev. Wright. Rev. Wright has the audacity to compare the mass incarceration of African Americans to genocide and white America goes apeshit.
Oh, yes. It's politically acceptable to be a black man running for office and say that things are just looking great. Unless you happen to be black, brown, or poor-white living in South Chicago, East L.A., or West Virginia. God knows Hillary Clinton won't do anything to upset her corporate overlords.
So I'm waiting. This is the perfect opportunity for Obama to really show
that his politics of charge really is a politics of change.
Let's see some real audacity, Obama!
Defend Rev. Jeremiah Wright!