Obama's Voice of God Roars

Say what you will, but this is the spiritual ear to the next President of the United States, channeling the voice of God into Obama's ear. The Rev. Wright has a world audience now, thousands of times greater than before. Wright retired last month,these sermons were recorded many years ago and yet have just recently taken the media's attention.

To my great disappointment Obama attempted to excuse his pastor's lunacy in the lap of his elderly white grandmother when he said, "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." Obama your white grandmother isn't a pastor of a church, a messenger of God, she is a woman who said things in the privacy of her own home as conversation, not as an edict from God to thousands of spiritual followers.

There are times when those of us who pontificate try on different truths as some women try on shoes, we want to know the truth and we can't really take a hold of it until we wrestle with it a bit. Call it flip flopping, call it liberal thought, all I know is that's how I do it. So I can see thinking about the ideas expressed by Wright and slip it on as one would a garish suit, look at myself in the mirror to study if this look is really me. But then again that's me. The Rev. Wright, you would think, had time to study his words prior to preaching them in his sermons and yet proudly spoke them to his impressionable flock.

Certainly no crime has been committed, but when a nation is depending on trust to see to it laws are obeyed and lives have value then this sort of message is tender wood begging for a match. A majority of our murders are happening literally in the middle of our streets and yet no one saw anything. No snitching and proud of it. Why won't they talk? Are they afraid of the killer? Maybe, perhaps. I suspect their biggest reason for not "snitching" is a lack of trust and a cultural rationalization spread about the alleged disparity between the treatment of white offenders in white collar crime versus the world of drug dealing and the harsh punishment doled out to those who break unwritten laws of gangsters.

It is the harboring of this secret segmented society that borders on racism and certainly will not be tolerated by the real people who run things.

You think God damned America? You ain't seen the half of it brother. Stay tuned, it's in the last chapter of the big Book.