While this story confirms that Wright’s Black Liberation Theology is a minority movement, even in urban black churches, it sadly demonstrates that some black leaders did not proactively debunk the suggestion that Wright was representative of “the black church” out of deference to Obama’s prior attempts to make the issue about race instead of religion and theology.
Perhaps worse is the degree to which the establishment media not only avoided soliciting the opinion of other black religious leaders, but also promoted the notion that Wright was expressing views commonly expressed within black churches. The offenders in this respect already noted here at pw include TIME magazine, as well as the taxpayer-funded PBS’s Bill Moyers and NPR. The list includes Andrew Sullivan, whose Obama crush has turned him into a human windsock. HotAir’s Ed Morrissey notes the attempts of the New York Times and the Washington Post to maintain the fiction even now that Wright’s estrangement from reality was not well-known and documented prior to this past weekend.
Those who engage in this level of intellectual dishonesty may serve Obama’s campaign and their own willingness to jump in the tank for him when he proclaimed that he could no more disown Wright than he could disown the entire black community. But this effort has been — and remains — a libel against the majority of black churchgoers who do not share Wright’s warped view of the world or his warped view of Christianity. Moreover, by suggesting to non-black America that Wright was representative of historically black churches, such media outlets set back the cause of race relations to the detriment of all Americans.
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