Obama’s pastor was speaking to his church family, not media

Sharon Tubbs, St. Petersburg Times

This thing with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor, has people black and white thinking — thinking about what each other thinks.

As they watch Wright’s fiery pulpit presentations eliciting applause from the pews, white people wonder if black people really do talk in church about oppression and government injustice, using language that some find offensive.

Black pastors wonder what will happen if white people find out that many of them do, indeed, think and talk in church the way Wright does.

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