Why racist?
Perhaps it's only an issue of guilt by association but I fear it to be more. Obama has had the cultivation and nurturing of 20 years at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama's concept of American society and God must have been affected, and he must have assented or partook to have latched onto Wright for so long.
Wright preaches messages that:
- are anti-Caucasians (including Europeans);
- curse and vilify the United States;
- honor Louis Farrakhan (leader of the cult Nation of Islam);
- promote an imaginary black Jesus (not found in the Bible);
- follow the teachings of James H. Cone (a founding father of black liberation theology and a man who calls white men the devil); and
- perpetuate a delusion of government conspiracies (i.e. AIDS) against blacks.
The typical politician
Only in the past couple weeks has Obama sloughed off association with Trinity when it threatens his political image. He has played a careful balancing act: defusing speculation of being Muslim (named Hussein, childhood in Indonesia) by claiming Christianity ("I attend a church"), but now distancing himself from church to deflect suspicions of racism. Like the majority U.S. politicians, Obama must reassure the middle America of his Christian "faith"; yet the faith he has followed turns out to be different from Christianity. Either he is misinformed or he tosses faith about as another tool for or obstacle to his rise.
