Here Is What We Will NOT Have

A National Conversation on Race. From NRO this morning:

Obama's Pandora Box: The Maladies Continue to Fly Out [Victor Davis Hanson]

Did he really want to open the lid off and evoke a national conversation on race, or to suggest the problem might have been just occasional Wright's errant remarks rather than the ideology of the Trinity church?

Obama should have kept the lid shut by simply apologizing for Wright, severing the relationship, and leaving the church. But suddenly after calling for a national conversation on race, and having a media chorus applaud that opportunity—silence?

And don't expect Obama or his admirers to take up the challenge and continue on this path that leads to exactly where they don't wish to go—revelation of the desire to mandate an equality of result rather than ensure one of opportunity.So why the post-speech deafening silence?

Because Obama and the punditry know that we cannot have such an honest conversation, given that any "new" dialogue 43 years after civil-rights legislation would touch on inordinate crime, illegitimacy, drug use, imprisonment, and black racism in addition to white racism—and thus logically lead to emasculation of the present privileged traffickers in grievance and reparations.

Who would wish to put a soothing Obama et al. out of business?And by Obama remaining in the church, its entire theology and its new pastor Moss (cf. his recent interviews) likewise jump out—and its neo-Marxist philosophy of black liberationism, resentment and anger at whites, and easy anti-Americanism will continue to be problematic for the next would-be President of the United States of America.

If elected, would Obama continue to support the Trinity ideology (consider the photo-ops and sound-bites at Sunday service)? And continue to have to explain embarrassing contradictions between what he professed and what he attended and subsidized that inevitably will on occasion lead to "typical white person" lapses?

Rev. Wright may well be the most theatrically unhinged representative of Trinity doctrine, but there is no reason to believe that anything he preached was at odds with either the church's written texts, or the sentiments of his ancillary preachers or his successors. And that problem won't go away. All summer long, "snippets" and "loops" from the church's well-publicized politics and ideology will come out—unless he shuts the lid shut on the Pandora's box he opened.

The box also contains the politically explosive idea of "Liberation Theology! We Americans certainly won't be given the right to weigh in on this disruptive subject!!!

If one has the time and wishes to delve into this ideology, our current Pope produced a document back in 1984 addressing this particular malady.

Preliminary Notes on Liberation Theology by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger