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Obama Adviser: Obama Joined Wright's Church In Search Of His "Blackness"

By Big Tent Democrat

Update (TL): The linked article is from Newsweek and is about why Oprah Winfrey left the Trinity Church.

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With friends and campaign advisers like this:

[Oprah] Winfrey was a member of Trinity United from 1984 to 1986, and she continued to attend off and on into the early to the mid-1990s. But then she stopped. A major reason—but by no means the only reason—was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. . . . Friends of Sen. Barack Obama, whose relationship with Wright has rocked his bid for the White House, insist that it would be unfair to compare Winfrey's decision to leave Trinity United with his own decision to stay. "[His] reasons for attending Trinity were totally different," said one campaign adviser . . . "Early on, he was in search of his identity as an African-American and, more importantly, as an African-American man. Reverend Wright and other male members of the church were instrumental in helping him understand the black experience in America. Winfrey wasn't going for that. She's secure in her blackness, so that didn't have a hold on her." . . .

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(Emphasis supplied.) Um, Obama's campaign adviser said that?!? This is not good.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).