Enough, Rev. Wright!!!!!!!!!!!

Enough, Rev. Wright!!!!!!!!!!!

an article by Jenice Armstrong Philadelphia Daily News

OK, REV. WRIGHT, we've heard enough out of you.
Thanks to your untimely speechifying and your appearance on Bill Moyers' PBS show, Americans have gotten more than enough opportunity to hear what you have to say. We've listened to your unfounded theories about the spread of the AIDS virus, the 9/11 attacks, and your views on the differences between how black and white children learn. We've been patient as you've defended your patriotism; we've nodded as you've insisted that critics need to hear your speeches in their entirety and not just in sound-bites. And now it's time to say "enough."

Rev. Wright, you are a complete and total distraction.

Because of you, we have been sucked into a sideshow that has been all about you. Instead of remaining in the background, as an honorable man would have, you thrust yourself into the national spotlight, posing as a defender of the "black church." Well, I'm black, and I go to church. But you do not speak for all black people.
Your remark that "Barack is doing what he needs to do as a politician and I'm doing what I need to do as a preacher," was an insult to Sen. Barack Obama and what he stands for. Either you are willfully ignorant of the meaning behind your words or you are no longer in Barack's corner.
Your emergence just a week before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries suggests that you are no longer even his friend. What you have done in the last several days has hurt Barack more than all the other mudslinging of this campaign. Whose side are you really on? I say, "Et tu, Jeremiah? Et tu?"

Before Obama made his historic speech on race in Philadelphia, I'm sure there were plenty of advisers who urged him to throw you under the bus, so to speak. But Obama took the high road, as he has continued to do. Yesterday's denunciation of the public spectacle you put on earlier this week was his strongest yet and, frankly, overdue. Obama called it like it is, though, when he publicly denounced your comments and said they have been "divisive" and "destructive" and that they "give comfort to those who prey on hate." Your comments are the antithesis of who Obama is and what we, as a nation, are supposed to stand for.

We've already wasted too much time on you, Rev. Wright. Your senseless public grandstanding has proven to be a distraction from real issues that both Democrats and Republicans should be focusing on - skyrocketing gas prices, the mortgage crisis, the war in Iraq and the need for universal health care.

I recognize your right to go on TV or give interviews. But if you really want to help African-Americans, I urge you to let Barack turn his focus back to doing what he says he wants to do: Bringing together black Americans, white Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and everyone else for the betterment of our country. As Obama pointed out yesterday, "The problems that face our country are too great to be divided."