The Audacity Of Dopes.

I grew up an “Army brat” which meant that given President Eisenhower’s desegregation of the military, I had plenty of black, brown, yellow and white friends in the Army schools.

I was never ever taught to discriminate, except perhaps the difference between Irish and non-Irish, and as a Catholic, my mother told me about KKK cross burnings in Pennsylvania and that the KKK “hated Catholics and Negroes.”

As a teen in the 60’s, I was genuinely perplexed that there was any need for a “civil rights” movement, as it just seemed obvious that the outcome would and should be just like the military.

Having the likes of Rev. Wright shoved into my reality really began to give me pause as to who really are the “racists” in our society.

Rev. Wright is anything but a Christian man. Christ never taught anyone to hate. I find his kind of religion to be anathema to any form of Christianity.

As the past week has unfolded, to find out that Rev. Wright isn’t the exception in the Black community has been a real shock.

I’m starting with the man in the mirror
I’m asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change

.. but my change doesn’t include a President Obama, at least not this year. Anyone who sat by and did nothing shows me no leadership and therefore is no leader.

Barack Obama is unqualified to be the “leader of the free world” when he can’t even muster enough courage to lead his mentor into a better direction. That’s change I can believe in.

I suggest he read his Bible before he goes to Trinity again .. then show his congregation that Christ preferred another way, a way without the hate and without the “God damns.”