I try to stay out of politics on this blog… okay well blatantly political posts having no relation whatsoever to Michelle Obama, however, I was doing my early morning Google News search for “black women” and ran across this article from GAWKER highlighting this tidbit that I admit I missed:
“In October, Obama’s former pastor, [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright, will publish a new book and hit the road to promote it, an occasion that might well place the topic of Obama’s blackness (along with his patriotism and his candor about what he heard in the pews in all those years at Trinity Church) squarely at the center of the national debate.” NY Mag
Now Obama’s campaign has like a three-month warning so they shouldn’t be caught flat footed on this one. If they need help on how to handle Pastor Wright, then this might be the time so take the Clintons out to dinner or something so that they can school you on how to deal with surrogates who might weigh you down. Ask Lani Guiner and Joycelyn Elders the proper swimming technique for being thrown over the side of a boat.
The reason this post popped up in my “Black women” serach is because of this quote from Wright:
Many of us are committed to changing how we see others who are different… Many of us are committed to changing, number three, the way we treat each other. The way black men treat black women. The way black parents treat black children. The way black youth treat black elders and the way black elders treat black youth… GAWKER
So what have y’all heard? Is this truth or fiction? What Will the Acolytes do if this is true?
UPDATE: This rumor appears to be false.
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Ohhhhh lawrd!!! NOOOOOOO …Now rather than the media focusing on Obama vs McCain in Oct., they will shift to Revy Wright…McCain won’t even need to spend money on more negative commercials… I wonder how good is Wright’s security team..Man, I’m getting a headache just thinking about this…
Suspended animation is sounding better and better, Gina.
Roslyn,
it is now time for a trip to the distant island nation of Mobutu or wherever the Acolytes sent Jesse Jackson.
I surely hope its fiction. Wrights generation is so selfish they only seem to want to promote things at times that will keep them in the spotlight. If he waited till December no one care and he couldn’t make money off of gosip and Barack hatred. If I see any proof that this is fact or fiction I will surely let you know.
So much for brotherly love. Now we’re back to “crabs in the barrel.”
Rev. Wright stated at the National Press Club earlier this year, when he was still all the rage, that he was going to write a book. He said it would be out this year. The fact that he would write a book is common knowledge; however, the content of that book is not.
I truly feel like Rev. Wright is really wrong for not just laying low until the election is over. I understand the man feels he should be able to live his life but he needs to see the bigger picture.
I am critical of Obama and would be no means consider myself an acolyte…this is just wrong! If Rev Wright was really some kind of friend or had been WHY DO THIS NOW?