Here we go again – a black preacher with a fiery style and a racial chip on his shoulder, but this time, instead of touting Sen. Barack Obama, as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright did, he’s vilifying him as a pimp and belittling him for having a white mama, if you can believe that.
He is the Rev. James David Manning of Harlem, or ATLAH, as he calls it, and he is the new darling of YouTube, probably not least for the busty babe who adorns his video to make the point about pimping.
For my full take on this curious subject, I refer you to my column in the Sunday Gazette. In brief, I think those people who excused Sen. Obama and by extension the Rev. Wright, now have a problem. How do they let one racial demagogue off the hook and not the other?
If it was kind of OK for the Rev. Wright to decry the “U.S. of K.K.K.-A.,” isn’t it also kind of OK for the Rev. Manning to say that Obama’s “African in-heat father went a-whoring after a trashy white woman?”
Another thought: If it’s OK for a mixed-race presidential candidate like Obama to be a congregant where anti-white invective is accepted, would it also be OK for a white candidate to be a congregant where anti-black invective is accepted?
Where do you draw the line once you start indulging bigotry?
