I fell asleep during the Wright inteview on Moyers last night. However, I've just finished watching on the website & reading the last half of it (the controversial parts of the interview aren't on the website video, you have to read the transcript of it, which I did).

As I've said before, I agree with a lot of Wright's politics. But I disagree a whole lot with his black nationalist religious worldview, especially when you put Wright in the context that Frank Schaeffer does over at HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obamas-minister-committe_b_91774.html

He points out that Wright is no different than the white nationalist hate mongerers of the Religious Right who have been ruling the roost in the Republican wing of the Republicrat party.

Which is yet one more reason, for me, a rabid secularist, to see him as just another political shyster hiding behind the preacher's cloth.

The black nationalist church goers are largely misogynist patriarch dominated institutions, just like the right wing white nationalist churches are, despite the claims to the contrary.

Where are the Trinity ministries reaching out to and healing poor women? It's all about the men and the boys.

Maybe god damned the girls and women?

Also, many Obama apologists love to tout Wright's academic credentials. For a guy who was educated at Howard & University of Chicago, I found him to be pretty shallow sounding, and not nearly as intelligent as I expected him to be. A black intellectual giant in the mold of King & Malcolm X, he ain't.

What is he? He is a good reverend. Reminds me very much of the ministers at the black nationalist leaning churches of St Paul, whom I've heard many times.

But I will give the man this. He has the guts and determination to stand up to injustices in the pulpit. How well that actually translates into action on the ground, I am in no position to judge, from the distance where I'm sitting.

He is very astute politically. He knows how to invoke the Palestinian and Native American causes, for instance, as a lead in to the black nationalist part of his sermons. Pretty typical black preaching rhetorical style.