[GOPJ]

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.’”

Thanks fool in paradise...

[a fool in paradise]

No problem, this is why I’d rather have such discussions online than at a bar or barbecue where people will naysay and there is no way to produce citation (or any willingness to break away from the event to actually dig into the details).

It’s better to be cautious against possible rumors than just readily pass info along.