Jeremiah Wright (Obama's Pastor) and Racism

Jeremiah Wright has been the pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ for the past 36 years. You can read his bio from the church's website here.

I've mentioned before that the man is a racist. You can see a shining example of what I am talking about here as he 'preaches' from the pulpit of TUCC about how Obama is qualified because he's black and Hillary isn't. The IRS is currently investigating this same video to see if TUCC has violated their tax exempt status.

Obviously everyone at some point in time has associated with someone of questionable character. That's fine. Of course if you know that this person is a racist because you have been listening to him preach for OVER 20 YEARS, and you call him your spiritual mentor, and one of your most famous speeches and your second book, The Audacity of Hope was actually INSPIRED by this person. That' s a different story all together.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, racism is wrong, whatever color it takes or favors. You cannot sit back and say that it is okay, because he is just trying to encourage or reach out to those of African heritage. If the wording was reversed and you were talking about a presidential candidate who attended a "white" church who preached about and encouraged members to hold onto their Aryan roots and how a presidential candidate was inferior because they weren't white, would you consider them a racist?

What if they had associated themselves with this group for more than 20 years?

Would you consider that person a racist?

Would you consider that person for president?

Wouldn't it be racist to hold whites to one standard and blacks to another?

UPDATE: Another SHOCKING example of what I am talking about.