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Wright Sermons Weren't 'Black Equivalent of a Klan Rally'

Posted Mar 19, 08 8:38 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama’s pastor is a good man, says a fellow churchgoer, and though his “going off on white America” kept T. Shawn Taylor—a black woman—from inviting white friends to worship, it didn’t stop her from marrying a white man. Taylor writes in the Chicago Tribune that whites may be “tired of walking on eggshells” around blacks, but don’t knock Wright too much.

Wright's “sermons weren’t the black equivalent of a Klan rally”; indeed, he used scripture to rail against Bible-thumping homophobes and misogynists. Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ does have an “Afro-centric flare,” but it’s simply not a “hate whitey” institution. Taylor says she hopes the Wright flap opens a dialogue instead of shutting the door on Obama’s candidacy.

Source Chicago Tribune

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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shown here with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, March 10, 2005.   (AP Photo/Trinity United Church of Christ)
Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at town hall rally at Charlotte Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C. Wednesday, March 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., talks on the phone in the car on the tarmac at the airport in Fayetteville, N.C., Wednesday, March 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama in 1979 during his high school graduation in Hawaii.   (AP Photo/Obama Presidential Campaign)
People hold signs about Sen. Barack Obama's association with the Rev. Wright Monday, March 17, 2008, outside of an MTV roundtable at Whistles Pub in Scranton, Pa.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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