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The eruption of outrage, shock and fear that is flowing over Barack Obama’s campaign like hot lava because his pastor has preached some strident sermons tells us one thing for certain: Many white people don’t know black people at all. If they did, they would know that Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago is hardly the only black minister who uses the pulpit to rant against racial duplicity and injustice. The black church has always been the place for letting our hair down and speaking our peace -- a safe haven from the criminations outside. It’s how and why the black...

Last month, Barack Obama defended a speech he gave, one that resulted in an accusation by Hillary Clinton that he had plagiarized an almost identical speech previously given by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. The thrust of the speech, in which he repeated famous phrases of speeches given by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt, Rev. Martin Luther King and others, was that words do matter. And he is absolutely correct. Obama was baptized in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Chicago-based Trinity United Church of Christ. Wright has been Obama’s and his wife’s minister and spiritual advisor for 20 years. He has...