As I made clear hereand here, there is now a loosely coordinated attack racializing Senator Obama, as the "dangerous black man," that are coming from Republicans and fellow travelers in the media. Two stages have now taken place. A week or so ago, Representative King began the official attacks with his comments on Obama's Muslim background and "optics," while just a few days ago the Republican surrogates in the mass media moved the Dr. Jeremiah Wright story from the racist fringe to the center.
This attack is on Obama's pastor Dr. Wright. The media have quoted only a few words entirely out of context from a few of Dr. Wright's sermons, and have as yet made no attempt to understand why millions of Americans agree with him or why his points may often be backed by data.
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