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If Obama wins it will be because of the economy, the war, and people being sick of Republicans. Wright is a problem because he makes it easy for bigots like this to attack all black people, Obama included: he's the handle of the powerful lever of racial stereotypes, and Obama, and the election along with him, is on the other side of that lever. As a black man it amazes me how white people just don't get this sort of thing, how amazed and outraged they are by attitudes I see every day, attitudes that are so ingrained in people they don't know they have them themselves, would recoil in horror -- and anger -- if I pointed them out. To his credit Obama understands this as well, and has run his campaign, indeed, his life, in such a way to minimize this effect, but "minimize" does not equate to "disappear." Wright is just the beginning.
