[pdxliberal]

Curious. Do you mean the Rev is racist, or that those who brought up the issue are racist? The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is most certainly a racist. Hence I have developed the reasonable habit of ascribing his title and name with the adjectival descriptor, "racist." The racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I am one of those liberals that *strongly* believes we can not move beyond race until we disavow ALL racism and put a stop to racially dual language no matter who it is the spews it. It can not be any more acceptable for the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright to incite racially disharmony, sow resentment & anger, and stir racial prejudice from the pulpit than it would be for some racist Rev. of the Aryan Brotherhood. We do indeed need to come together as people and disavow those in our community that strengthen the racial divide. We definitely should not be sitting for 20 years in the pews donating time, money, and favor to a racist Pastor and church with racist dogma, and *then* expect to be the postmodern leader and POTUS who brings us together and moves us beyond. This would be ridiculously hypocritical. I want to believe this is possible. I want to believe that we can finally move beyond race. I want to believe that we can finally be free of people like the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I would love the idea that the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright could not spew his racist vitriol unless secluded in a compound in Northern Idaho somewhere unknown. I suppose that I just can not overcome the feeling of hypocrisy that exudes this whole campaign being run by Sen. Obama. It just reeks. Perhaps I have too sensitive a nose for a liberal.

[pdxliberal]

Sorry. I did not format the html for paragraph breaks and I have submitted this reply three times, at least because I am not used to the delay. If my replies are being moderated prior to post then I would greatly appreciate it if all of the original replies were deleted except the one actually formatted with paragraph breaks. I will be more careful in the future.

Thank You.

[streetpreacher]

I want to believe that we can finally be free of people like the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I would love the idea that the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright could not spew his racist vitriol unless secluded in a compound in Northern Idaho somewhere unknown.

So you want to imprison people who don't agree with you? So much for the first amendment.

Yep. You're a "liberal".

[Westbrook]

> I am one of those liberals that *strongly* believes we
> can not move beyond race until we disavow ALL racism and
> put a stop to racially dual language no matter who it is
> the spews it.

This would make you a classical liberal, which is probably a lot closer to a modern conservative than a modern “progressive”.

Classical liberals tend to be rational and can mount a passionate argument without maudlin emotion.

I’ve had many a pleasant and good discourse with classical liberals, discovering that we aren’t a whole lot different after all.

[Sherman Logan]

Well, I agree with you, but there are those who say that brining up the Wright issue was in itself a racist act.