Chicago Catholic activist priest Michael Pfleger last Sunday preached on white entitlement at Trinity United Church of Christ, where Jeremiah Wright was senior minister until his recent retirement and where Barack Obama has been a member for over two decades. Father Pfleger ended his remarks by mocking Hillary Clinton's imagined sense of white entitlement. This two minute histrionic tirade was captured digitally--a perfect snippet for these You Tube Times.
Mr. Obama was quick to renounce Father Pfleger, an early and avid Obama supporter. Mr. Obama said, "As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."
In my estimation the pulpit can be an intoxicating setting, especially with a responsive audience. Father Pfleger allowed rhetoric and hubris to take him to a very ugly place. Shame on him!
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