I doubt that the majority of those upset by Rev. Wright's statements honestly believe that Obama is a closet Black Panther who will make Louis Farrakhan his secret aides-de-camp while in the White House. Obama's life story, personality, and political record make him more vulnerable to the "Uncle Tom" label than the "Angry Black Man" one. So why are some people so upset about Wright?
Quite simply, they think it's yet another case of Black Privilege, of how Blacks can get away with things that Whites can't. These people constantly refer to events like the OJ Simpson trial, the Duke lacrosse scandal, and the Imus controversy as great injustices perpetrated upon Whites by an oppressive Black oligarchy. Add to the fact that these Blacks are also allegedly stealing jobs and college spots via affirmative action, and you've got a swelling of White resentment. To these people, they look at Tiger Woods and see that all racial chasms have been fixed, and that any further gripes from the Black community amount to nothing more than whining.
Then along comes this Reverend Wright, a sort of Mike Huckabee of the left (good man, says decent things most of the time, but has a tendency to go off the deep end from time to time). They are absolutely incensed that a Black man can get away with having a pugnacious Black preacher, while a White man probably couldn't get away with having a pastor who blamed Blacks for economic and social woes. Their limited cognitive abilities can't look beyond the immediate past and present to the historical perspectives of the Black and White experience, and how Black and White politicians aren't exactly interchangeable. Here, how about a deal? McCain gets to have a White version of Jeremiah Wright, but he has to do so in a country where Whites were enslaved for centuries, Jim Crow-ed for one more, and where no White man has EVER been remotely close to winning the White House.
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