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To: stylin19a
I just read a lot of that linked article.

Did you notice this? It's in the section where Obama's about to join a church :

After many lectures like this, Obama decided to take a second look at Wright's church. Older pastors warned him that Trinity was for "Buppies"--black urban professionals--and didn't have enough street cred. But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity's guiding principles--what the church calls the "Black Value System"--included a "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.'"
Reverend Wright " was a former Muslim"???? Anyone ever seen THAT before? Interesting, too, the way it's written...as if his being a former Muslim was of particular importance to Obama. Sure would like to know why the author wrote it that way....
59 posted on 04/07/2008 12:41:05 PM PDT by Timeout
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To: Timeout
holy cripes...I wasn't lookin for anything else...

good catch... I wonder if this has legs...

64 posted on 04/07/2008 1:01:37 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Timeout

“But Wright was a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago,..”

???WHAT???? This is the first time I have ever seen something like this. Although, I would not be 100% surprised, since he is good friends with Louis Farrakan, I’m still shocked that this hasn’t been brought up before, if true.


65 posted on 04/07/2008 1:03:44 PM PDT by KEmom (Please send viable Republican candidates to Massachusetts!!)
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To: Timeout

This too . . .

At the University of Chicago Divinity School, Wright earned a masters degree in the history of religions with a focus on Islam.


76 posted on 04/07/2008 1:27:03 PM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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