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March 14, 2008
The Reverend Wright: Some, No Doubt, Think He's Right
Barack Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has been the focus of quite a bit of outrage since his "God damn America" tirade hit the blogosphere. Yesterday, John Derbyshire at The Corner wondered what all the fuss was about--he contends that Wright's views are not "unorthodox", at least by the standards found in a lot of black churches.
Here is a 2005 poll showing that:Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study released by Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon.I have no doubt that non-black Americans would be willing to vote for a black American as president. Not many of us, however, would be willing to vote for a candidate who thought of himself as black first and American second. That such people exist is proved by the success of Jeremiah Wright — and by the applause of his congregation.Is Barack Obama such a person? If he is not, why has he been such a loyal member of that congregation, making five-figure donations to Wright's church at least as late as 2006? Calling on Wright to bless his marriage and his house, and baptize his children? Using a passage from one of Wright's sermons as the title of his second book?
I've been thinking along the same lines, though not specifically about the community of black churches: there is a large segment of the liberal/Left who no doubt believes that the reverend is correct, too. I can easily imagine the following conversation:
Incredulous conservative laughs to leftie: “Did you hear Obama’s pastor thinks that America invented the AIDS virus, and the we’re the number one killer in the world? What a maroon.”Unsmiling leftie stares back: “Well, I don’t doubt it in the least.”
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