Note a similar comment from the other Chicago paper. They are desperate to spin this as Wright being "different" from the mainstream black church---after telling us for a month that it was the black church that was different and we had to "understand" it.
They can't have it both ways, and neither can Obama. If we are all alike, then he has to denounce nutty ideas that, unfortunately, a number of inner-city blacks share. Will they abandon him once he isn't "down for the struggle?" If he doesn't denounce these "ridiculous" views specifically, they will keep coming up. He's toast.
There's some truth to that, the Nation of Islam is in the same general neighborhood as Wright's Church, in Congress the area is represented by Bobby Rush (former Black Panther) who Obama couldn't unseat in a primary run, and Jesse Jackson Jr., so there's clearly some sympathy for the victimization view.