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Originally Posted by fluffy0000
The question is not Obama or his distancing himself from Rev. Wright but the similairity in the message of Rev. Wright and Rev. Martin Luther Kings' message. Both opposed unpopular wars in their time and delivered similiar themes about race and religion. It is the intervening decades between these 2religious leaders that has transformed Rev. Martin Luther King and his message into something entirely alien from it's original content? Islam is not the no.1 growing religion on the planet its the Baptist religion according U.N. 07' fig. If Martin Luther King was around today in 08'
would the critrea that ruled out the Rev. Wright by Obama be different for Rev King ?
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Unfortunately, the message has little to do with it. In 2008 we have this little thing called YouTube and sound bites, and a 4 second clip taken out of context from a 45 minute sermon can mean pretty much whatever you want it to. Rev. Wright's real message was lost, and unfortunately he liked the attention more than he worried about the reason he was getting it. Even if the message is similar (I am not saying it is or isn't) they are two very different people.