Obama Distorted Rev. Wright's Background

Obama Distorted Rev. Wright's Background
Monday, April 28, 2008 9:39 AM

By: Ronald Kessler





In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Barack Obama again
fabricated the background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his
longtime pastor?s denunciations of America and of whites.

Referring to racial discrimination, violence, and segregation, Obama said
Wright ?went through experiences that I never went through.?

In his speech on race in Philadelphia, Obama made similar claims. He
described a ?lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and
frustration that came from not being able to provide for one?s family . . .?

Obama said this was ?the reality in which Reverend Wright and other
African-Americans of his generation grew up . . . For the men and women of
Reverend Wright?s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear
have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.?

But as detailed in an April 13 Newsman article, ?Obama?s Rev. Wright
Mythology,? Obama?s characterization of his mentor?s upbringing is untrue.

Wright grew up in a racially mixed, middle-class section of Philadelphia
called Germantown, which consisted of homes on broad tree-lined streets.
Both his parents had good jobs: His father was a pastor; his mother was vice
principal of Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Wright was privileged to attend the elite Central High School, which admits
only the most highly-qualified applicants from all over the city. When
Wright attended Central High, the student body was 90 percent white,
according to students who attended at around the same time.

Wright?s classmates clearly respected him. The 211th class yearbook
described him as the ?epitome of what Central endeavors to imbue in its
students.?

In contrast to Wright, Bill Cosby, who also attended Central High, has
denounced the black culture of victimhood that Wright has promoted in his
sermons, a culture that Cosby says sets up blacks for failure.

Since the Newsmax story on Wright?s background ran, only Fox News? Bill O?Reilly
has picked up on the fact that Obama?s characterization of his preacher?s
upbringing is fiction.

Meanwhile, the coverage resurgence of Wright over the weekend spotlights the
fact that, by suppressing any mention of Wright until mid-March, the media
in effect selected Obama as the Democrats? nominee.

Wright appeared in a Bill Moyers interview on Friday, gave a talk to the
NAACP in Detroit on Sunday, and spoke to the National Press Club this
morning. As a result, clips of Wright denouncing America and claiming the
country introduced the AIDS virus to kill off blacks have been blanketing
the airwaves.

Moreover, at the NAACP, Wright in effect ratified the black culture of
failure by saying African-Americans? brains are different than those of
whites: If they speak differently from whites, they are not wrong ? just
different, he said, implying that they should not be corrected.

If the Obama-loving media had picked up on stories that Newsmax started
running in January before the primaries began about Obama and his
relationship with his pastor, Hillary Clinton undoubtedly would be ahead
today in delegates and votes.

After the media finally ran the stories, Obama?s double-digit lead over
Clinton in national polls vanished. At the same time, John McCain shot up in
the polls.


As Ken Blackwell, a black columnist, recently wrote, the media have covered
Obama ?as if he were in a beauty pageant.? In doing so, they have done a
disservice to Democrats by not telling the truth about Obama and his pastor
until most of the primaries were over.

By not reporting how Obama is using bogus claims about Wright?s upbringing
to excuse his ?God damn America? tirades, the media are continuing the
coverup.


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