RUMOR CONTROL: Pastor Wright's "October Surprise"?

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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