I did listen to Senator Obama's speech today, 3/18/2008. in Philadelphia. He mentioned that the original Constitution was "stained" because the original founders were slave owners. He does mention is that his maternal lineage traces back to the Duvall family, who were slave owners and on his paternal side, the Muslims in Kenya were the original African slave traders. He calls himself an amalgamation of many parts of the the country. I would say that he did succeed in elucidating the complexities of the Afro-American situation.

It was, I must admit, quite a remarkable speech and took a lot of courage. He could simply have disowned the Reverand Dr.Jeremiah Wright, but he rather explained that there may be reasons for his pastor's comments, perhaps a bitter past for example. Now, I can understand that Senator Obama has affection for his pastor, the man who performed his marriage ceremony and baptized his children. However, Senator Obama also calls upon his pastor to recognize that there have been significant changes in America and that he needs to recognize that too.

There is a strong statement to his pastor there; he's not entirely letting him off the hook for his "incendiary statements." It was as if Senator Obama was gently disparaging a parent, who was stuck in the past. Senator Obama suggested that perhaps we have all heard political views from our pastors or ministers that we disagree with. Well that may be true, but I didn't hear it from the pulpit. In fact, my spiritual mentor has never made any political commentary whatsoever and concentrates purely on spirituality.

Senator Obama also claims that we have to solve the racial divisions in our country before we can solve health care issues or other problems in our country without solving the "race" issues". I'm sorry, I don't agree. Seems to me Affirmative Action has done a very good job.

I might say that disowning someone is possibly a very easy thing to do for hypocrites. Another point is that from an objective point of view, how can someone actually call himself a Pastor if he has hate in his heart. I know people personally who have had to "disown" their former pastors or gurus. Malcolm X was one such individual who, after his trip to Islam, distanced himself from Elijah Muhammed, because of his racial stance.

The point is "moot" however, since Dr. Wright has already resigned his pastorship. Now if we examine Dr. Wright's astrology, you will notice that he has the Northern Node (Rahu) in the 12th position to both the Sun and the Moon. This very often leads to a a psychological trait called Obsessive-compulsive behavior.

Actually, Senator Obama "hit the nail on the head" when he said that Rev Wright's mistake was seeing the everything as "static", i.e. that there has been no change over the last half century. I have also rectified his unknown birth time to 9:30 AM (war time). This puts the Moon, the Sun and Mercury in his Libra ascendant. Frequently, when the Sun is in the Ascendant the native is bald and domineering. Dr Wright's personal number is also 28/1 and that is a leadership number. Do I think he is a racist? Yes. And I think he's obsolete.

And, I don't believe that his diatribe has any right to be in the public atmosphere. His successor is Rev. Otis Moss, III, who was hand picked by Dr Wright and who also preaches a rather incendiary sermon. Suprisingly he hails from MLK's Ebenezer Church in Atlanta. I suspect that if MLK were alive, he would disapprove of all the imflammatory sermons, as Dr. King was a student of Mahatma Ghandi and non-violence.

Pastor Bill Keller of Live Prayer has said that every Afro-American pastor he knows has condemned the so-called Black liberation theology, which is a perverse theology originally taught by James Hal Cone that teaches Blacks to liberate themselves from the perceived racism of white people.

No doubt, slavery was a terrible injustice. My grandparents came here because they were expelled from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. My father couldn't enter certain shops beause of "No Irish, No Dogs" signs. Get over it.