And you’ve been to alot of black churches? The ones in St. Peter? Sioux Falls? Apple Valley? You know, I’ve often heard it been said that the most “moderate” black pastors do live in South Dakota, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised.

Try Memphis and Mississippi…

My experiences with black churches haven’t been as extensive as yours, but the prevailing wisdom amongst all the talking heads this weekend was that Jeremiah Wright is considered less incendiary than most black pastors. If that’s true, one can only expect tons more “hidden camera” revelations of just how angry and mean these fellas are standing at the pulpit.

If that is so, then the talking heads are wrong. To smear every African-American in this country as being the same kind of bigot as Rev. Wright is exceptionally racist.

And you’ve been to alot of black churches? The ones in St. Peter? Sioux Falls? Apple Valley? You know, I’ve often heard it been said that the most “moderate” black pastors do live in South Dakota, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised.

My experiences with black churches haven’t been as extensive as yours, but the prevailing wisdom amongst all the talking heads this weekend was that Jeremiah Wright is considered less incendiary than most black pastors. If that’s true, one can only expect tons more “hidden camera” revelations of just how angry and mean these fellas are standing at the pulpit.

As I said, it was inevitable that Barack Obama’s candidacy would absolutely tear this country apart along racial lines no matter how far Obama himself attempted to stay above the fray. Another seven months of this madness (which will happen now whether Obama gets the Dem nomination or not) will be a devastating setback for America, but perhaps a boon for the Republican Party in keeping older white voters in the GOP fray for another Presidential election.

I don’t know as I’ve ever heard a more ridiculous and insulting argument, attempting to blur the lines between a Chicago pastor exercising his right to nonviolent free speech and Osama bin Laden. Nice, Jay.

Your Freudian slip is showing… note that you are the one who made the comparison to bin Laden. I was thinking more along the lines of the French. You could at least try to be subtle sometime…

Your little diatribe is premised on the concept that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is somehow emblematic of all African-American ministers. None of the black churches I’ve gone to have included speeches about how America deserved 9/11, referring to the country as the US of KKK A, or openly insinuating that the government created AIDS.

As much as you’d like to lump all people of color into the same group as radical conspiracy theories like Rev. Wright, that argument doesn’t even fly.

I don’t know as I’ve ever heard a more ridiculous and insulting argument, attempting to blur the lines between a Chicago pastor exercising his right to nonviolent free speech and Osama bin Laden. Nice, Jay.

“Yet when Rev. Wright said that America deserved attack, that we created AIDS, that we should say “God damn America” instead of “God bless America,” Barack Obama sat passively by and let those assertions go unchallenged.”

If the GOP chooses to run its campaign against angry old black men who lived through the civil rights movement and still harbor resentment for the country that enslaved their ancestors, all the effort and wads of cash thrown at outreach to minority voters will have gone to waste. Such a campaign might help you win some of the old “white ethnics” in John Murtha’s neighborhood and sneak into the White House because of it, but if blacks perceive Republicans as exploiting one man’s anger (based on historical precedent shared by most African-Americans) to be the latest urination on the black experience in America, the percentage of the black vote going GOP will be closer to 1% than 10%….and your demagoguery in this post suggests that’s exactly what will happen.

It was inevitable the day Barack Obama’s candidacy started to overtake Hillary Clinton’s that America was poised to suffer its most ferocious racial polarization since at least 1968. Just as Nixon shrewdly deduced that the by exploiting the polarization of that era via his “Southern strategy”, the Republican Party would have the strength in numbers and benefit from it election politics. The same is probably true today for John McCain if the Jay Redings of this world wage a proxy war against black churches to tear Barack Obama apart. It will probably work in the short-term, but the next time you don’t have “the black guy with the scary pastor” to run against, can you really afford to have further enraged every person of color by using them as a political football for the umptieth time?