Well I guess on the bright side of things, there should be no more questions about whether or not Senator Barack Obama is a Christian.

If you recall, throughout his campaign for the presidency, he’s been painted out to be an undercover Muslim who was sworn into office on the Koran. When that didn’t work, it switched to rumors that he doesn’t say the Pledge of Allegiance and he was the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s flunky. He’s anti-Israel, friends with terrorists...who actually want him to win. And the most absurd of them all...he’s the Anti-Christ.

Now the focus for Obama haters has turned to his former pastor Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and what’s being called “controversial” comments he’s made from the pulpit regarding America’s politics.

It seems that it’s not enough that we’ve adopted their religion and most Blacks are worshiping to their White blue-eyed Jesus, but now they want to dictate the message that we receive as well. And in the process, they’ve backed Obama against a wall forcing him to publicly distance himself from his pastor in order to prove that he’s not an angry Black man in disguise.

Civil rights icon the Rev. Joseph Lowery once said, “The country’s creating a 51st state-the state of denial.

I guess if the history books favored my race against all reality, I’d be pissed off at anyone who tried to say otherwise. Too bad.

The fact is that Rev. Wright isn’t the first or the last preacher or Black to call out America for her racist history. A history that for some reason we are always being encouraged to forget because today Americans are transcending race. Is that why Black men and women are being imprisoned almost as fast their mothers can give birth to them? Is that the reason why a man who called a group of young Black women “nappy-headed ho’s” is still on the air? And were we rising above race when it was joked that Tiger Woods should be lynched? Is us transcending race to blame for the pimps and ho’s parties on university and college campuses around the country?

The belief that America is somehow transcending race because Whites voted for a Black man is dangerous thinking.

Another greatly feared Black man, Dr. Maulana Karenga, taught me that I am American by birth and African by choice and quite frankly that’s the feeling of a lot of African-American’s who are fully aware of the United State’s role in the history of not only the underdevelopment of Africa, but generations of Black Americans. And let me tell you, one Black man running for president isn’t enough to erase that history or the feelings that many Blacks harbor whether publicly or on the down low towards the United States government and White folks. We haven’t touched on the issue of reparations, which our government continues to down play.

Published in : Op-Ed, Unapologetically Young, Black, and Female