Return of the Scary Black Guy

As far as I am concerned, there has been so much written about Jeremiah wright that I am reticent to even bother. But I did find this interesting from a columnist in the Chicago Sun-Times. I will add that he is a white guy and he got a wicked response for saying something that, frankly,  is pretty accurate.

I’ve seen this happen so many times in politics where black candidates are involved that I’ve lost track. An opponent has trouble attacking the black candidate, so they find somebody connected to the candidate and attack them. I can’t say why this is more prevalent with black politicians unless it’s that the black experience has produced more fringe players who can be used for this purpose. Plus, there’s always Farrakhan.

Then the opponent starts in with the disavowal game. Will you now disavow this black person who is of some stature in the black community to prove to us that you really aren’t one of “those” black people?

And now that Obama has provided the disavowal, left with no choice by Wright’s latest display, the reaction is “too little, too late.”

The amazing thing is in that same paper, another columnist pretty much echoed his point by saying that Obama had perhaps distanced himself “too late.”

My own question (and this point has been made but just seems to keep getting lost) is that why aren’t all white candidates held up and made responsible for everything that their pastor has said or a religions leader has said?  For example GOP candidates still go to Bob Jones University every election to pay homage at a school which dropped their prohibition against inter-racial dating in 2000.

Why hasn’t Hillary Clinton been asked to repudiate her pal and Bill Clinton’s spiritual advisor Billy Graham who said (and who has later apologized when caught) that Jews control the media and are ruining this country and AIDS is a punishment from God?

Perhaps it’s because white people don’t make other white people responsible for what someone has said or done just by a virtue of knowing them. If we were really to make Bill and Hillary accountable for the misdeeds of their various cohorts throughout the years – people who have been sent to prison by the way, there wouldn’t be enough Rev. Wright clips on all of YouTube to drown out the noise.