Infinite MonkeysDo Rev. Wright and Rev. Sharpton want to stop Obama?
Well, look at it this way:
1 - Obama's nomination would fundamentally change the dynamic that to be a leader of the black community you need to follow the MLK model and have that "Rev." before your name.
2 - Obama's election to the presidency would do serious damage to the animating myth of these reverends--that the United States is a fundamentally racist country, looking to do violence (economic and physical) to blacks at every opportunity.
3 - Worst of all, a President Obama would mean that the structure where there are many people who could claim leadership of the "black community" (whatever that actually means) would be shattered. There would be only one real leader, and he would be the leader of the whole country, not just a range of skin tones.
So what do you think the Reverends really want?
Posted by David at April 29, 2008 10:07 AM