Obama and his church

I said a couple of months ago that that Barack Obama would have to dissociate himself from the views of his black racialist, Afro-centric, anti-white pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who teaches among other things that the leading figures in the Bible were black. The New York Times in a story today suggests that Barack has kinda, sorta done that. It portrays Obama as someone who relates to his black racialist church more for its communal qualities than for its teachings about the Bible. The fact remains that no white candidate for president could get away with belonging to a church that was the white equivalent of Barack’s church. Below is an excerpt from the article.

On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns.”

Such statements involve “a certain deeply embedded anti-Americanism,” said Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative group that studies religious issues and public policy. “A lot of people are going to say to Mr. Obama, are these your views?”

Mr. Obama says they are not.

“The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification,” he said in a recent interview. He was not at Trinity the day Mr. Wright delivered his remarks shortly after the attacks, Mr. Obama said, but “it sounds like he was trying to be provocative.”

“Reverend Wright is a child of the 60s, and he often expresses himself in that language of concern with institutional racism and the struggles the African-American community has gone through,” Mr. Obama said. “He analyzes public events in the context of race. I tend to look at them through the context of social justice and inequality.”…

Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job.

“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”

The story does not indicate that Obama has ever dissociated himself from other teachings of Wright, such as that the leading characters in the Bible were really black.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 01, 2007 06:37 AM | Send