The reverend Mr. Wright has taken to the airways, the highways and biways to make his case for himself. If senator Obama thought, he put this devil behind him after his brilliant speech last month, he's wrong. Wright is Obama's albatross. Shucking and jivving before the National Press Club in Washington [28 April 2008], this Church of God minister proved as the 'New York Times' media critic put it, he was in love with his own voice; but there is more to Wright's message than the sound of his voice. It is racism he hides behind the ingenuous facade of slavery, the experience of the black church, and quotations from the bible. Wright if anything is a throwback to Garveyism, black nationalism, and the extremes of demonising the world according to the gospel of Wright. He's the other side of the coin to the racist white preacher fulminating with the power of the lord. Scratch Wright's surface, you will find the racist wearing a dog collar.
Obama will suffer this cross of Wright, he has to bear. He cannot put the man behind him as the bible says, get thee behind me devil!. No Wright has joined him at his hip, and this will make many of the senator's supporter despair, and may even cost him his party's nomination for the presidency. Wright is extreme that in the end his words go full circle joining those of the white separatists. Wright is happy in a black world, no more, no less.
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