I want Reverend Wright to go away now. Far, far away to a land where all those who thrive on divisiveness reside. Obama had your back, Rev. And this is how you repay him? You want to get in his shit, challenge him, make him acknowledge the ills that still persist in this country? Go ahead. But why can’t you wait until the man is actually in a position where he can do something about it?

Are you truly standing up for what you believe? Or is this just a case of jealousy and the attempt to sell books. Malcolm X’s spiritual mentor loved Malcolm too, until Malcolm’s fame and adoration began to overshadow his own. Tell me, who benefits from the statements you’ve recently made? The black church? African-Americans? Certainly not the Obama campaign. I’ve spent enough days in the black church to know that the very thing black people have been praying, singing and worshiping for all these many years, Senator Obama seems to want as well. The exciting thing is that for the first time in the history of this country, there is a person of color who actually has a legitimate chance to bring about this type of change. But how far can he get when he is cut off at the knees by the very man he has admired and defended?

I don’t think anyone would deny the fact that there is a lot of work to be done when it comes to achieving equality in this country. And I don’t deny that some of the statements you have made, however caustic and controversial they may be, are at times grounded in truth. What rankles me, what I can’t seem to get my head around at this moment is why people who have fought the good fight for so long seem to want to help in bringing down a warrior of change. Why would you turn your back on the very man who refused to turn his back on you?

We live in a country that thrives on divisiveness. It fills the pews and the barbershops. It deluges the news sites and creeps upon the bottom of our television screens twenty four hours a day. It sells books and makes headlines. Why is hope a harder sell? Is idealism that bad of a word? I didn’t think so. But now…I’m not so sure.