You sir, are a racist.

First, you assume I am black. Second, your make the following statement "The fact is I, like millions of other white Americans, were willing to give Obama a chance after 20 years of Bush/Clinton." You were willing to give a black man a chance? Third, the difference between the statements of Reve. Wright and your hypothetical White preacher is that his statements are based on statistical realities of the disproportionate affect of the drug war, aids etc. on the descendants of slaves in this country who was speaking to a community that only exists because of the fact this so called land of the free had slavery long after most countries, and legalized discrimination based on skin color up to a generation ago. Only an ignorant racist, such as yourself, could have his head so far up his ass not to recognize the social context into which Rev. Wright was making those statements. And even your ignorance is inexcusable, since Obama very clearly pointed you in the direction of understanding.

Now you may not like what Rev. Wright says, but given the reality of the community he serves and the reality of the oppression that resulted in the people in his congregation needing his service, i.e. in the real America not the la la land you live in, anybody like Obama who wished to be involved in the local community would be perfectly justified in going there.

You are a cowardly man, scared of the justified anger of the people who were the victims of the most despicable crime against humanity that there is, slavery, that was the law of this United States of America for way too long for us to be anything but ashamed. It is not for you to deny that anger, even if you believe, as does Obama, that the good of this country outweighs the evil history of this country towards blacks and natives. Rev. Wright railed against the institutions and complacency of our society, not against "white people" whatever that might mean. So what? He noted, unlike you apparently, that Sept. 11 was a result of our meddlesome foreign policy in areas of the world which are populated predominantly by people of darker skin tones than you. That does not justify it, that does not make it anything other than a horrible crime, but it would not have happened if we were not, as a country, deeply involved in the internal affairs of countries in the middle east. Is that involvement justifiable? Rev. Wright apparently doesn't think so, and has the right to say so. Of course, people like you who do not believe in open discussion of how terrorism does not exist in a vacuum and is actually related to our middle east policy, i.e. un-american head in the sand let papa bush take care of your cowardly lily-white hide people like you can't handle honest discussion and justifiable anger.

If Rev. Wright is the thing that makes you vote against Obama, vs. McCain who sought the endorsement of Hagee then yes, you probably are a racist who wouldn't vote for Obama anyway.

I am not a fan of any church. After all, isn't a basic tenant of Christianity as taught in most churches that simply not believing in Jesus as savior (i.e, being Jewish, agnostic, hindu, etc...) means you deserve to spend an eternity burning in hell? But all three candidates use their affiliation to churches as a good thing, so if you go down the road of worrying about some (and really, it was cherry-picked sermons by ABC) statements by pastors in this world of anti-gay, anti-sex, anti just about everything, and say you won't vote for Obama because of his pastor...

Again... listen to Rev. Wright's sermons and try to get beyond your knee-jerk response to "God Damn America", are they really any worse than what the Catholic church says and does (eg. defending pedophile priests)? Or what your typical evangelical says? Especially given the reality of current racism in this country, at least there is some justification for his paranoia. What excuse does Hagee have?

I'm not happy that Obama brags about his Christianity period. But given the reality of the political landscape, and the reality of all the religious nutcases who say all sorts of horrible things, I find Rev. Wright more palatable than most of the scumbags who the other candidates are happy to suck up to.