Like many Americans I watched Barack Obama's speech regarding his pastor, Reverend Wright. Now I'm not the brightest lightbulb on the lamp but as I review some of his comments these thoughts come to mind, such as:
If Obama has listened to almost 20 years of Rev. Wright's hatred and anger toward whites, how can Obama NOT be affected by this in some way. Obama has chosen to attend that church, be married by that man, have his children baptised by that man. It would seem to me he would be virtually steeped in those values.
Obama's comment about his white grandmother further causes me to cringe for it shows his resentment of her whiteness. She certainly showed fear of blacks but Obama never took into account the era in which she grew up, the fact that his own father left him when he was 2 years old, that she raised him as her own in a place that frowned on biracial children.
Further, I find it puzzling and unsettling that Obama is running as a black candidate when he is half white. This man is truly a brilliant orator and has attracted voters from both sides of the political forum, but I hope that these people will look beyond the rehetoric and the lazy smile. This man is not a unifier of people. This man could lead us into a civil war.
And as to Rev. Wright, how can he profess to being a Christian and yet spew hatred for his fellow men for something whites in the past have done to black in the past.
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