Stuck In The Past

Alan K. Henderson asks if Rev. Wright came to us through a time machine, based on some astonishing statements in a recent eulogy by him. Oh yes, he has to start out with some offensive ethnic stereotyping:

"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.

"From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ..." Wright wrote. "He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others.

Italians? Not Romans? Does he refer to the people that meet in the building with the Star of David on it as "Hebrews"? As Henderson points out, "lynching" is a term that we reserve for non-official killings; Jesus' crucifixion was most definitely official and governmental execution.

"The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God," said Wright.

Wow! White supremacy "is clearly in charge"! That's why we have a black Secretary of State. Actually, our second black Secretary of State. And yes, the Klan is clearly a dominant force in our society today.

If Obama just figured out that there's something offensive about Rev. Wright, then he lacks the judgment to be a member of a city council, much less President of the United States.