I found a fun new blog called “That Minority Thing” via a clever post on the “Nontroversies of 2008,” you know, the excitements of the moment that seemed to live on and on and then just as suddenly disappear. Think 14 year old Chinese gymnasts, the Hollywood writer’s strike, just about everything that went on in the never-ending election season . . . that sort of thing. The author’s number one Nontroversy of 2008?
How dare Jeremiah Wright say the nasty, hurtful things in the privacy of a black church that men of God like Pat Robertson, John Hagee and the late Jerry Fawell said in public? Barack Obama denounces Wright, comes across as a “rational” black man, then delivers a historic speech on Race in America and ends up in the White House. The whole thing worked out so well, I have a feeling somewhere Wright and Obama are secretly sharing a cigar, swapping one of those “terrorist fist jabs” Fox News warned us about, and saying to each other “we got ‘em, baby. We got ‘em.”
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