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Originally Posted by ChristopherHall
- First, I don't see Jeremiah as a racist. Focused on issues of race yes, racist no.
- Second, Obama's life was touched by this church and its overall ministry. I believe it’s fairly safe to assume that Obama, being a younger black man, doesn’t hold the same views as his pastor Jeremiah.
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CH,
I want to focus on what you posted here with a little information about Obama.
Obama shows an account of his life in his first book, "Dreams From My Father", stating he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. Of college, he says, "I chose my friends carefully".
In Obama's own words his chosen friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets", as well as, the "more politically active black students." He also later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator.
Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some off the wall things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Obama began seeking out in college -- members of the left, anti-American counter-culture.
It's just what it is.
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