I've grown increasingly frustrated with the news coverage on TV. Your blog is a ray of hope.

In case you're forgetting, it was Obama and his stalwarts who insisted that his candidacy would be about a conversation about race. Not healthcare, not the class-based pressures imposed by the new Gilded Age, not the environment, not good public policy, not legislative efficacy -- a "conversation about race."

Well, now he's got one. And having been subjected to countless compulsory, derogatory, contemptuous, divisive, and frankly racist "conversations about race" as a white female in lefty academia and lefty politics, I have to say that it's nice to see that he and his supporters may be having precisely the conversation they deserve.

But I don't expect much insight to come of it, for despite Obama's own misguided insistence that we take this political season to converse about race, he and his supporters cannot run away fast enough from this one, which proves the big lie at the heart of Obama's campaign: it was never a "conversation" about race that was being sought in the first place; it was another of those divisive "diversity" encounters that many of us have been subjected to in a classroom or office, another interminable rap session imposed by the few people who benefit from such things at the expense of the rest of us, regardless of skin color.

Reverend Wright broke the rules of the game, but Obama's campaign started it, when he could have made other choices for platforms on which to run. Obama would show he's made of better stuff if he acknowledged this now. But it's simply re-writing history to suggest that the media, and not Obama himself, are responsible for making race "conversation" the main focus of his campaign.

Geesh! The Jeremiah Wright story is exactly the story that needs to be told. Why? Because Obama has been less than honest with all of us about his association with the church, Wright, and the part he personally played in throwing the guy under the bus last year when he was ready to announce he was running for President.

Jeremiah Wright suffered further indignations by Obama when in Philadelphia, and while Wright was on a cruise, Obama tells us that he is "standing by his man" - oh, and his white grandmother too! Wrong. He hadn't been standing by him for a long time.

Wright surfaced to shine a light on exactly who Obama is and what he's all about, especially since the media seems incapable of it. What is it about payback that you don't understand?

Obama has conned the Democratic Party and maybe his way to a nomination that he really didn't get from regular Party members. Find that story and report on it. In this day and age of lies, pop-culture-driven events, and the media dressing up these guys and walking them around, is it any wonder we get the worst leaders?

As someone who works every day with underprivileged (mostly women of color) women, we sure as hell need to talk about Racist Egotist Rev. Wright. This is a man that sold his people down the river and is living in a mansion with gold plated fixtures---like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan. Meanwhile, their followers continue to blame white America for their problems and fail to take any responsibility for their actions.

Slavery is over. Ended hundreds of years ago. Except in Africa where it still persists today. However, many black Americans have settled for welfare, babies having babies,food stamps, rap music, and drugs. While they wait for reparations they have a few more babies, talk about rome burning. Bill Cosby has spoken about this only to receive death threats from his fellow black Americans. NO Amount of money can help a crack mother, a crack addict, or someone with 5 kids and no job. We ALL must participate in changing the cycle of abuse and poverty but it MUST start at home FIRST. It has too.

Here is a shout out to everyone that if you cannot afford a baby DO NOT HAVE ONE. PERIOD. DO NOT HAVE A BABY if you cannot afford one--and this means rent, food, clothing, car, car seat, doctor bills, and someone who is working in the house to pay for all this while you take care of the baby. NO MORE BABIES. STAY IN SCHOOL. GET A JOB. There are 1000's of programs for at-risk teenagers and we can help them stay in school if they want to, but many do not. The lure of welfare, section 8, and food stamps is too strong. WE MUST STOP THIS.

Poverty could be obliterated for the most part (with the exception of seniors, disabled mentally or physically, and a few other cases) if people would NOT HAVE BABIES THEY CANNOT AFFORD. Condoms are cheap, saying no even cheaper. Thus, the future is in our hands, we just have to step up and do the right thing.

Jews and other ethnic minorities have overcome racism like that faced by black Americans, so I think it is important to look at both sides of the coin. Yes, racism and sexism exist, but why have some black Americans failed to do as well as other minorities. It is not for lack of ability, that is damn sure. I think it is THEIR OWN LEADERSHIP that fails to inspire and actually leads them the wrong way. Whatever the case, Rev. Wright is very wrong to blame America because she is the best country in the world on many levels. In fact, I think that he is the reason so many black Americans have animosity toward the system, and he is the reason so many fail to thrive in a beautiful country. He is the reason so many hate--because they follow his example. I am not my ancestors, and I love all people. I do not see color, but judge people on who they are. Rev. Wright seems to condemn me just because I am white. Who is the problem here--REV. WRIGHT is the problem. However, at this point in the juncture it is time for his followers and all people everywhere to open their eyes and say I want to change and then make that change. Let's leave Rev.Wright with an empty church because what he is preaching shouldn't have any listeners...

Finally, it is very important that we analyze why Mr. Obama liked this church, took his family to this church for 20 years, and considers this man his mentor. I think that this connection defines Mr. Obama's being, his attitudes, and his persona. As Mrs.Clinton said, I could not have been a member of that church for 20 years. Neither could I, and neither should anyone running for President of the USA.

Stop defending it and start making a change for the better. You become the hypocrites when you make a claim that Rev. Wright is not racist, not bad for America, and that Obama's connection is not important. STOP IT.