Barack Obama Pastor Scandal

Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home


Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

Placing Reverend Wright's Sermons In Context

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home


Lonnee Hamilton

Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home


Bill Parent

One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

Obama's Theology Of Reconciliation And Perfection

Gene Koo | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home


Gene Koo

Obama offers a theology grounded in a process, not an outcome: to work out salvation with fear and trembling. His professed beliefs puts him at odds not only with the president, but his own pastor.

Obama on Race vs. Romney on Religion

James Freedman | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home


James Freedman

Many in the media noted Barack Obama's speech yesterday morning was reminiscent when Mitt Romney tried to address concerns about his Mormon faith. But is that comparison actually warranted?

A More Perfect Union? Yes, We Can

Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.19.2008 | Home


Lecia Shorter

The infusion of race into the campaign of Senator Obama past yesterday will serve no purpose other than to continue to pour salt into a wound that has now been postured for healing, paving the path to a more perfect union.

Barack, Jeremiah and Jesus

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.18.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

If Obama can help white America understand why he sat in the pews of Trinity Church in Chicago for twenty years, then he may be able to hold his near-grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Anti-American Or A Man Speaking Truth To Power

Lecia Shorter | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home


Lecia Shorter

Rather than acknowledge the truth about the dark past of America, and in some instances the present, we are quick to charge anyone who removes the veil of our history as being racist and/or anti-American.


 

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