Guilt by more than association
Rush Limbaugh gave extensive coverage to Barack Obama and his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, on both Friday’s and Monday’s programs, complete with audio clips and quotes. In short, Reverend Wright has used the pulpit to make a de facto endorsement of Obama, as well as preach racism, hate for America, and kook government conspiracy theories. Obama says he was never in the pew during those sermons, pretends to know nothing about his pastor’s more controversial doings, and has even tried to disassociate himself from the reverend. However, Obama has been a member of Wright’s church for 20 years and made the reverend an advisor on his campaign staff. Thus, one is left to wonder just how much of this stuff Obama believes and if this is where Michelle Obama cut her teeth on her own hatred for America.
Fortunately, Obama’s church is under IRS investigation for its overt political activity, but still, the discrepancies between the way the media have paid relatively little attention to this saga and the way they exploit religious activities on the right are glaring. In 2000, George W. Bush came under fire for his association with Bob Jones University, then there was the Mormonism of Mitt Romney, the occasional controversial statement by Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell, the activities of James Dobson, etc.
At any rate, Obama does seem to agree with Reverend Wright that existing racial tensions are justifiable.
Obama said Wright’s comments have sparked a discussion that reflect complexities of race in the United States that its people have never really resolved.
“We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country,” Obama said. “But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.”
Yes, and who was it that supported and maintained the institutions of slavery and Jim Crow? The Democrat Party — the same political party to which Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright are beholden.
As long as we have people like Jeremiah Wright preaching racism and victimhood, rest assured that the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. will never be realized.
