Rev. Jeremiah Wright Slams the "Garlic Noses"

We know that Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor, doesn't care much for white people, but he apparently has special enmity for Italians:

Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."

Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...

"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."

Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright's column, "The Message," in which he covered a range of subjects, including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in his April 2007 commentary "Facing the Rising Sun."

"In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks 'white is right' and with young people who do not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny, we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about 'bling bling' than about freeing our minds," Wright wrote.

This is why unless Obama completely separates himself from the church and from Rev. Wright, every wacky word this guy utters or writes will be used to beat Obama over the head. The new guy at Obama's church isn't helping either, and with 30 Sundays left until the general election, there are a lot of opportunities for Hillary and the GOP to find more crazy statements to link to Obama.

UPDATE: Rev. Wright is canceling his scheduled speaking engagements, citing "security" concerns, though so far there have been no threats made against the Rev. or the churches in which he was going to speak. I'm wondering if the Obama campaign has quietly asked the Rev to shut up since every message will be closely scrutinized by the press and the Clintons.