Sherif,
In case you have been under a rock for the past month, Obama already has talked about that in a speech that actually got him more support. If anyone has to answer, its McCain and the endorsement that he received from a pastor who called catholics a “cult”….

I think that this letter is very informative, and makes appropriate points that the
Obama campaign should definitely consider further implementing.

Obama has been fighting racism and discrimination for the last 20 years in public life. He is the only US politician in recent history that has truthfully and honestly talked about the issue of racism, that is one of the reasons why I support him, why majority of people who have voted in the US primaries support him, why millions of others across the world support him, and one of the reason why he will win the nomination and become President of United States.

In fact if you are serious about fighting racism, Obama is the most credible politician you can support on that issue.

Sherif, before you make any more foolish statements like that, I recommend you watch the speech again because you clearly didn’t get it.

Sherif, you clearly don’t get it what he was saying. Maybe reading the entire speech might help you because you terribly misunderstand the point he was making. If you don’t get it after reading the entire quote, then perhaps asking your high school teacher to explain it might help.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/politics/main3947908.shtml

“Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. Like other black churches, Trinity’s services are full of raucous laughter and sometimes bawdy humor. They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear. The church contains in full the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America.

And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. I can assure you it is not. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.”