Either Jeremiah Wright is a Hillary Clinton supporter or else he has a colossal enough ego to thinks his comments at this point in the election are more important to the African American community than the possible winning of the Democratic presidential nomination by Barack Obama.
Wright's comments are not new, Malcom X used the "chickens coming home to roost" comment after the assassination of John Kennedy and Chris Rock has been using the government led HIV conspiracy against blacks in his comedy routine for a few years.
Any breathing white person need only go back a little bit in history to see many instances and reasons why black America would have some skepticism about the behaviour of our government. Rodney King, Amado Dialo and now the exoneration of the cops that killed Sean Bell is another most recent example. One of the cops snapped off 31 rounds at an unarmed man and the judge apparently had no problem with his conduct. The judge said that he thought the officers version of the events were more "credible". Apparently proving that the dead man was unarmed was not credible enough.
In 1998 poor Amodo Diallo was on his door step holding his wallet when cops managed to get off 41 shots before coming to their senses. The defense of course was the cops were afraid Dialo had a gun and they all walked.
History has more instances of blatant societal mistreatment of blacks but those as well as any comments by Rev. Wright are not the issues here.
Does Teddy Kennedy have to answer for Catholic priest pedophiles or does Mitt Romney have to answer for Morman bigamists? The answer of course is no. Each of these presidential candidates should be measured on their own and at this stage in the campaign the media should be focusing on issues that mean something to the vast majority of Americans and what each of these candidates can do about them.
Those items are pretty plain to see, The Iraq occupation, the Strategic Oil Reserve, the economy, food prices, immigration, social security, health care and education are a few that could use some attention. Instead we are preoccupied with the rantings of an obscure reverend, who can't seem to avoid taking up every second of his fifteen minutes of fame even if it might egregiously wound a candidate whose potential nomination might be a source of tremendous pride and exhilaration to the flock that Rev. Wright purportedly represents.
