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Prophets and Politicians
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Do you think Michelle Obama's comment in Wisconsin last month that,
“for the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country”
will resonate more negatively in some voters' minds now with the revelation of Wright's remarks?
Yes. It already is being used in the blogosphere. The question of Obama's relationship to American patriotism and nationalism will be asked more forcefully now.
Obama's upbringing was secular, but while living in Chicago in his late 20s he embraced Christianity and Rev. Wright's church. What do you think attracted him to Christianity and to this congregation?
The church is the heart and soul of black organizing, language and rhetoric. I'm sure all of those factors brought him. And it wouldn't surprise me if he found real emotional sustenance and belief there, as well. The church was one of first organizations where African-Americans could lead. Your country tells you you are a boy, you are soulless, you are beneath human, but you can go to church and be a son and daughter and prince and princess of God. It's a place where workers became accountants, where you learned skills of leadership and business, and that history is still with us. And it's appropriate Obama ends up in a church in Chicago, the hub of South-North interactions, of African-American history. Thousands of African-Americans sang hymns on trains to Chicago. They would stop their watches as they passed the Mason-Dixon line, and bring their church sensibilities with them.
If Obama is the Democratic nominee, how big an issue will these remarks by his longtime reverend, and the issue of race in general, be in the general election?
They will be an issue, but [presumptive nominee] John McCain will have to be very careful about using any words than can be racially coded. And I suspect he'll push hard to win the support of the Latino community, his easier, more natural political ally. There are ugly aspects of this, but a more open discussion of race could be edifying if there are truly deep conversations about the realities of discrimination. There's still a racial divide in this country; having these conversations could be a positive.
So you're saying something good may have come out of Jeremiah Wright's inflammatory remarks?
His rhetoric is certainly problematic and troubling, but prophets, whether it be Wright or W.E.B. Du Bois, are necessary. They dream dreams, they cast visions, they challenge the world as it is. In 1904 Du Bois said that God is made of one blood, and that all men are brothers. That was absolutely treasonous talk in 1904. But of course you look back now and say his vision was right.
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