Damning as it is that the Right Racist Reverend Wright is ex-NOI, and that Obama was able to comfortably nestle under Wright’s wing for twenty years, the real problem is that the Right Racist Reverend’s church had, as one of its articles of faith, “the disavowal of middleclassness.”

This is problematic for many reasons, three of which bear pointing out now:

1) Generally, the “middle class” is the backbone of the nation, so if Obama spent 1/5 of a century sopping up hatred towards the bulk of the people he is today charged with governing, that in itself is a problem;

2) It is “middle-class” values that offer the black community its only hope for escaping the trap of ghetto life. The middle class is all about self-control and deferred gratification in the interest of achieving distant goals—a regimen precisely opposite to the live-for-today, semi-slave dependent mentality of those who live from hand to mouth or on government largesse. “Disavowing middle-classness,” therefore, raises to a theological imperative the rejection of the moral values that enable people to uplift themselves.

3) Without in any way slighting Christians here, Judaism is the ultimate middle-class religion. By this I mean that the Torah is all about personal independence, each person content under his own vine and fig tree. The laws of the Torah are intended to make people as independent as possible, albeit responsible for those less fortunate. There is no aristocracy in the world of Torah law, and slavery—a necessary evil in ancient times—is frowned on and ameliorated as much as possible. The Right Racist Reverend with whom Obama worshipped for 1/5 of a century is an ex-Muslim, an admirer of Hamas (whose writings he has published in his church newsletter), a vistor to Libya in the company of his former spiritual mentor Louis Farrakhan. Wright is, in other words, a dyed in the wool antisemite, something revealed not only in his bellowed political sympathies but in his belief in the disavowal of middleclassness, for in this disavowal he rejects not only any belief in the tenets of the Torah/Old Testament upon which Christianity ultimately rests, but expresses his fundamental hostility towards that most middle-class of peoples, the Jews.