Wright, Obama and dissolving hate

It's about time Barack Obama showed his stripes, denouncing Rev. Wright's garbage once and for all.

Fame does strange things to people. Some can thrive on it; others expose their weaknesses and insecurities, albeit trying to express an honest viewpoint.

They are what they are. Obama came true as a statement of change, of dissolution of hatred and I believe, maybe now, paved a way for election.

Obvious racial hatred is not good, especially by our leader in the public eye, or even sensed in the private life. Bill Clinton, even Bush, don't seem concerned with hate and exploitation publicly, besides their other faults.

Privately, it could be suspected, but everyone is an individual and must be in self-control enough to squash those temptations, especially when trying to lead a people. There's no room for that chaos. If necessary, it must be denounced, refuted.

What made Martin Luther King Jr. so great is not his great heart, nor his family values, but his efforts to unite all races, to toss aside blatantly and proudly the differences and climb to the mountaintop together.

Barack needed to clean his mind of that vitriolic nonsense. Someone he treasured stepped across an obvious line of hate.

Race should never be a public issue, unless in the sense of healing, and removing its presence, which can only be done by communication and union of thoughts as to what's important in life.

I'd vote for Obama now. He did something. He said what he would stand for and spread the word that he cared about all people equally.

If he's smart, he can take this strength to the White House.

John Sennett

Schaumburg