Infidels Are Cool uncovers some obscure reporting identifying Jeremiah Wright as a former Muslim.
After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright’s church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for “Buppies”–black urban professionals–and didn’t have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity’s guiding principles–what the church calls the “Black Value System”–included a “Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.’”
I'm underwhelmed by his former religious affiliation and more interested in the politically calculated manner in which Obama chose Trinity as "his church"
The crosscurrents appealed to Obama. He came to believe that the church could not only compensate for the limitations of Alinsky-style organizing but could help answer the nagging identity problem he had come to Chicago to solve. “It was a powerful program, this cultural community,” he wrote, “one more pliant than simple nationalism, more sustaining than my own brand of organizing.”
The bonus though it the juxtaposition of Wright's condemnation of middleclassness--code for successful blacks leaving the hood for less crime-ridden and more pleasant neighborhoods.
The "Wright House", a stately ten thousand square foot home on a golf course in Tinley Park, Illinois, is the epitome of middleclassness. Notably, Obama didn't stay in the hood either.
Posted by Mick Stockinger on April 8, 2008 8:53 AM
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I'd like to see Obama give a speech telling us honestly about his religious beliefs. See:
http://acimmessages.blogspot.com/
Posted by Christian Prophet | April 8, 2008 9:26 AM
Posted on April 8, 2008 09:26