Preacher Gone Wild
29 May 2008 10:07 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
“White entitlement”?
White “supremacy”?
“…She just always thought this was mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white
and this is mine. …”
Of course, many of Obama’s supporters as well as Hillary haters believe that
Senator Clinton’s campaign began with a sense of entitlement and incumbency.
I wrote and talked about the perceived “inevitability” campaign when
Clinton first announced and how Mark Penn and company had packaged her campaign.
It infuriated me. But because she was white? That’s the continual message coming
from Trinity Church.
If Obama is the nominee we are in for it come general election time. It doesn’t
matter that Senator Obama wasn’t in church at the time some of these things
were being spewed at the pulpit. He chose to tie himself to Trinity for twenty
years.
“I’m white!”
“I’m entitled!”
Trinity Church will be the gift that keeps on giving to the Republicans. But it’s not like Democrats haven’t been warned.
Mr Unity has a problem, which becomes ours. Instead of offering a message of “hope” and
“change”, it’s obvious he comes from a place of divisiveness, old
wounds, and a world that is still looking to get even, which he will be asked about time and again.
Father Pfleger has a problem too. It’s called “white guilt” and stirring up these divisive feelings to cleanse himself only makes it worse, while hitting the man he’s trying to elevate, Barack Obama, on an issue that could scuttle the historic candidacy he embodies.
Father Pfleger isn’t adding anything healing or offering a bridge between the races. He’s grandstanding. He’s obviously also overcome by his own self-loathing. Whites can be racist too.
