Preying on Hate

Just another couple of thoughts on the Obama - Wright issue.

From Barack Obama's modified-updated-thistimeireallymeanit speech responding the Rev. Wright:

You know, I have been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ since 1992. I have known Reverend Wright for almost 20 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church.

Rev. Wright had been peddling racist lunacy for decades. We saw that in the video segments that Barack previously said were taken out of context. Rev. Wright and his congregation, the hundreds of people whooping it up every time he screamed another crazy, racist rant, are the ones filled with hate.

Why is this so hard for people to say? An entire community wallowed in racist filth for decades, relishing it, enjoying it, reinforcing it and still Obama tries to deflect the analysis of it and somehow infer that this fed hate. It did not feed hate, it was hate. Are the journalists going to ask anything about this? Was any of what you saw in Rev. Wright's NAACP speech and his press conference any different than what you saw in the YouTube videos? To me it looked like the exactly same thing, only spoken at a lower volume and with a little more of an intellectual foundation.

Will Barack get a free pass endlessly on this one?