If I hear one more person tell us that we have to put the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. into the context of the black church, I'm going to scream. Over the last few weeks I have heard countless apologists for Barack Obama's pastor say, that we have to understand the hurts of the black community. That blacks have experienced a unique history in America, and that's what's driving the anger and hatred that's coming from some of their pulpits. 

What I would like to know is, when do you ever get over the hurts of the past? At what point do you give up your anger and move toward healing? What I'm looking for is someone who can move us past the type of rhetoric that 'ministers' like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan use to keep blacks and whites from reaching an accord. I know that all of you have heard the words of Jeremiah Wright, so I won't take the time to repeat the vile things that he's said from the pulpit. But since Rev. Wright Jr. insists on using rhetoric like 'God damn America' I would like to know how anyone can put those words in the context of the black church? 

Some people thought that Barack Obama was the answer to the hurts of the past. So many people were sitting at Obama's rallies thinking he could bring the racial divide together. But does anyone honestly think that he can do that now? It seems that even when Senator Obama tried to move away from some of his pastors hurtful rhetoric, he just made matters worse. During his own speech on the subject of race, Barack Obama threw his own white grandmother under the bus by saying that she used racially divisive words that made him cringe. As if the private words used by his grandmother were morally equivalent to the thirty plus years of hate that Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preached from his pulpit. Then to make matters worse Obama referred to his grandmother again by calling her a 'typical white person' in a radio interview. 

How in the heck does anyone get away with using the term 'typical white person'? Can you imagine John McCain referring to any black person as 'typical'? The black community and press would go wild. I guess that if you're a black candidate, you can say anything you want when the press is in the tank for you. The bad thing for Obama is that, even with the press giving him a pass when he says racially insensitive things, the America people aren't buying Obama's crap. So Chris Mathews, Campbell Brown, and Anderson Cooper can keep fawning over every word that pours out of Barack Obama's mouth. But the 'typical white' voter is getting sick of the media refusing to hold Barack Obama accountable for his meaningless attempts to gloss over all the ridiculous he says and believes.