Update: I have changed the title of this diary to more accurately reflect the point I am trying to make. Maybe it's still murky, but I am trying. Thanks.
If one believes that there is an invisible, supernatural higher being, called God, who is constantly interacting with humanity, dispensing wrath and vengeance for all manner of wicked behavior, by way of the odd deadly Hurricane, Tsunami, Earthquake, Aids Epidemic or War, then one must acknowledge that the language used by Pastor Jeremiah Wright (God Damn America!) is perfectly acceptable for the purpose of calling down God’s condemnation on America for the crime of institutionalized slavery and its surviving, ugly, great-grandchild, institutionalized racism in present-day America.
The sermons of Reverend Jeremiah Wright are not given (or recorded) for public consumption. They are given for the edification of his congregation in their place of worship. This is why this intrusion by the media and the public at large is such an outrage. Not only does it violate the spirit of free speech, it also involves freedom to worship as this congregation and their pastor choose to worship.
The crying shame of it all is that Barack Obama is now forced to remove this man from his life and try to scrub the whole bloody mess clean by exhibiting an appropriate amount of knee-jerk outrage over these relatively benign remarks. I mean, it’s not like the Reverend Wright is advocating the invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation who never attacked us. Reverend Wright is not advocating that prisoners of war (enemy combatants?) may be detained indefinitely without trial and denied the most basic human rights. Reverend Wright is not advocating torture, no matter what the circumstances.
No. Jeremiah Wright is speaking the clear unvarnished truth about our moral failures as a nation. Do we have the courage to hear him?