White Privilege is real, even accounting for wealth, status, power or popularity

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95. in fairness, JFK faced similar accusations of dual loyalty and/or belonging to the wrong religion

The Voice of Freedom, a Nashville-based monthly, lambasted Catholics in general and Kennedy in particular on four occasions. In July 1959 an editorial warned that when Catholics dominate the U.S. the voters would turn to communism.

http://books.google.com/books?id=bgAQnsJxSDIC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew—or a Quaker—or a Unitarian—or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim—but tomorrow it may be you—until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

http://catholicism.about.com/od/history/p/Address-Of-Sen-John-F-Kennedy-To-The-Greater-Houston-Ministerial-Association.htm

I'm not disputing the larger premise, but I think the Rev. Wright pseudo-scandal, including Obama's hand being forced towards a "Sister Souljah moment", revealed more about racial politics and the narrow path African Americans have to tread in the public eye between archetypal "House" and "Field" loyalties. I mean, I'm sure his skin color didn't help with Republican outgroup fantasies about fifth column Manchurian Kenyan Salafist WTFzors, but I'm not certain a Caucasian-appearing child of Muslims (or god forbid an actual Muslim) would fare much better among our low info compatriots. I'm not even sure a blue-eyed son of Lebanese Christians would escape this sort of scrutiny, at least if he were a Democrat, since he'd be one o' dem Muslim Christians.