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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
i'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on you and atticus. BO could have said any number of thing about the minister, he could have said black people can't be racists in the same way white people are. Fuck. Running today I listened to Dead Prez's wolves. What the guy said wasn't that much out there.
But what he said was he can't write off the guy more than he could write off granny. if the guy was his other grandparent i see that.
What I don't see is how he isn't saying it's okay to have a racist minister is different than it's okay to have a racist friend.* do you think it's okay, or is it different? wait, factoid to help us work through this: Wonk- is there only 1 church in Chicago?
*in the middle of a speech that I thought was 90% great, but this one point, it bothers me, can one of you help me?
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First, I have only heard a few clips of the minister on NPR yesterday, but I didn't hear him say anything racist. Certainly there are other statements out there, but I heard him go a little far in criticizing America and nothing more.
Second, this guy's church is pretty much wholly responsible for Obama's Christianity. He had no religion until he found it in this church. Does that factor in at all when you are evaluating whether Obama must be expected to walk away from the community because the preacher went a little far in his rhetoric once or twice in the last ten years?
