preaching to his congregation, Reverend Wright has made statements that were popular with his targeted audience, but mentioned presidential candidate Barack Obama.
These comments were on the whole a commentary on racial divides in America, as well as gender issues.
On the whole the comments can clearly be perceived as inflammatory by a wider general audience and will especially be taken as such by a media seeking controversy.
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Note: reverend Wright is not a mouthpiece for the obama candidate. He has been a pastor at a church where obama is a parishioner. However, his comments are being linked to the obama campaign. in part because he is affiliated with the campaign as an honorary member.
Having watched the ups and downs of this campaign, it is clear tha this comments have now become a liability for the campaign. Whethere the comments themselves have merit or whether they do not, is really not the question in american politics today. The truth is that racial politics is an area that needs to be treaded upon very carefully. There are swaths of peeople in this country who feel biterness over affirmative action, job losses and have found scapegoating as a natural impulse that makes them feel better about themselves.
And it is upon these impulses that comments that starkly pit one race with another, ignite.
In these circumstances, and in the spirit of the Obama campaigns message of unity, AND I DO NOT SAY THIS LIGHTLY, I call upon him to not only dissassociate himself from the comments of pastor Wright, but also ask him to step down as an honorary member from whichever post he may hold that ties him to the obama for president campaign.