What troubles me about the Wright affair
Mere months ago, I would have imagined that preachers in black churches speak to their flocks about serving God and living moral lives, about humility, self-respect and love. And maybe most do. But the current presidential campaign's sideshow of "Wright stuff" has been sadly educational.
Avi Shafran in the Jerusalem Post comments there are good and bad people in every population.
Mindful of the Talmudic imperative to judge "all men favorably" (Avot,
1:6), I have never measured any human being by any yardstick other than
his own words or deeds.
If even a minority of black church leaders are of the Trinity mold (both the word's senses intended), feeding their congregants the sweet poison of suspicion and hatred, the dream of a truly color-blind society will have been set back a century - even if an African-American is elected to the very highest office in the land.
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