[jen0830]

In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor, Wright is CEO. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said, “Truly epitomized greatness”. That man is Louis Farrakhan.

Farrakhan is one of the country’s most bizarre, most repulsive, most openly racist, most offensive, public figures. Yet Obama’s minister lauded Farrakhan with an award for epitomizing greatness. Maybe for Wright, Obama, and some others, Farrakhan epitomizes greatness. For most Americans, Farrakhan epitomizes hatred, particularly in the form of anti-Semitism. Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, including calling Anglo-Americans, “Blue-eyed Devils”. Wright’s comments are not theological views, but political statements. This is a serious issue for Obama in the general election. As with each new utterance on the topic of Reverend Wright, Obama confirms his own moral obliviousness and he seems to have disdain for those who are troubled by his own unwillingness to break with Wright.