Just as the nation was horrified at the recent murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, the same reaction was felt yesterday over the news about a self-styled white supremacist, James von Brunn, who walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington armed with a rifle and began shooting.

Von Brunn apparently has spent much of his 88 years filled with hate, mostly against blacks and Jews. A recent e-mail message from von Brunn read, "It's time to kill all the Jews."

One person, a 39-year-old security guard, was killed. Von Brunn was shot and critically wounded by guards.

Now here's another bit of hate that got less play.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama's former minister who was attending the Hampton University Ministers' Conference in Virginia, was asked by a reporter from the Hampton Daily Press the last time he spoke with the president. Here was his answer, recorded on tape, which you can watch on the link:

Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. ... Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing [by] the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel.

Wright goes on to talk about how "the Jewish vote, the AIPAC vote" is "controlling" Obama.

Is what Wright has to say news? Not sure. I think the bigger issue is that hate and bigotry, no matter where it comes from, should not be ignored. It's a disease, and it spreads.

categories: Behind His Words

9:26 - June 11, 2009

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