The Obama/Wright Connection Is Not About Race To Me

[RestoreGore]

However, it seems that some blacks want to turn this into it being about race just like the media does, so that they can call those who decry his words racist and use us to rail their own anger at and guilt us as if we didn't care about MLKJr's struggles when many of us supported him, marched with him, and lived it with him to fight for equality for all Americans. And frankly, I am tired as a white American of being beat over the head with that and guilted about the past when MLKJr. is actually one of my heroes. My family that was also poor cried just as hard when he was assassinated as they did when RFK and JFK were assassinated. His son endorsed John Edwards for president and I supported him too because it isn't race that should be the defining issue here, but POVERTY which touches many lives in this country today.

The point is that people of all colors have suffered on this planet from time in memoriam, and if we don't move beyond this to change that for the future we will never survive as a species. I personally don't care if Wright hates me because I am white... that's his problem. I don't hate him, I just disagree with his more damning words aimned at this country and have every right as he does to express that as well. Obama was wrong to continue to have association with a man who so obviously by his own words hates this country whether he does or not, especially if he intends to be president of this country. And please, just a general observation... no more RELIGION IN POLITICS. I am a spiritual person, but it has NO PLACE in politics, and that has no place in a church.

Jesus didn't turn the tables of the moneylenders over in the Temple because he believed that politics and religion mixed. That too is what bothered me about his political rantings. The fact that he had an honorable position in the Obama campaign (and only relinquished it when those videos hit the airwaves) also tells me that religion has a far more prominent place in Obama's campaign than should be. Eight years of that already was quite enough. So to me this incident is not about race. It is about character, judgement, hypocrisy, and truth.