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Two Questions for Senator Clinton (and Lanny Davis)

By Calvin Massey

  Lanny Davis, lawyer and political advisor to the Clintons, has written a column, "Two Questions for Senator Obama."  Davis asks, in essence, the following:

1.  Would you support a white candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination if he attended a church at which a white minister used the "N" word and indulged in KKK sounding rhetoric, and then continued to attend that church?

2. Would you support that same white candidate if, after hearing such sermons, the candidate appointed the white minister to his "Religious Advisory Committee"? 

Putting aside the obvious -- that Davis asks these questions to fan the flames of racial controversy --here are two questions for Senator Clinton and her mouthpiece, Lanny Davis:   

1. Do you really think that the anger of African-Americans is the same as the white supremacy of the KKK?

2. Do you really think that everything a clergyman says about secular affairs is an expresion of religious faith? 

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).