I could write...

...an entire post about Obama and that whack job white dude who offended Hillary and every decent American on the planet with his racist rant on the pulpit of Obama's church. But I am not one of those who thinks that Obama should be judged too much by his associations. Certainly this freak isn't attached to him in any way that bothers me.

Obama had nothing to do with that and as we've seen, he's not going to do much about it. I don't know that he should...that's an argument for another day. What really offends me is the reaction of the people in the pews.

I meet a lot of black people day to day and none of them, ever...in my presence, has said that they want to Damn America. They seem like perfectly normal people. Where are the normal black people who would walk against racism...wherever it rears it's ugly head?

I would put every dime I had on the fact that in a church full of white people on any given Sunday, if you had some KKK dude get up and preach anti-black sentiments, you would see people get up and walk away in droves. That's why the KKK doesn't come recruiting people in our churches...we simply wouldn't allow it. We being the everyday white people who have evolved socially to a point where we are ready to live hand in hand with the black community. The problem is the black community doesn't seem to want to live hand in hand with us.

It seems as though there's a vicious game of racial tag and we can't find a time and a leader who can come together to lead all Americans...black, white, red and yellow...to a place that Martin Luther King could be proud of.

If there are churches full of black people cheering for Farakans, Jackson's and White's...there is no way on God's green earth that you can say that MLK would be proud. If there are people with posters of Che Guevera hanging on their walls influencing a major presidential candidate, we need to know this.

It's not too late yet. Obama CAN earn the respect of all people. And he has the perfect opportunity to make a HUGE mark in history. He has the chance to be the president who brought Black America and White America together. That's huge...really, really huge.

But he can't do it if he can't get our attention and as long as these nuts are talking louder than Obama is talking...we can't hear Obama at all. He needs to wipe these yahoos off the face of the news by making the news himself. He needs to find a way to lead black people to a place where they would walk out on racism rather than give it a standing ovation. He needs to find a way to lead white people to a place where we can accept that he truly does represent ALL of the people.

Where are the black people who would walk away from racism? I know they're out there. Obama be damned...we need to hear from THOSE people.