Obama: Africa Fracas

Will Obama be knocked out of the presidential race because of his church-racial-prejudice problems? Unlikely in the primaries, but certain to be an issue in the general election. Assuming, of course, that he gets by Ms. Clinton--certainly by no means certain.

The moral of the story is that it is better to limit one's ethnocentrism to a private failing rather than the public face of one's church. And we are all ethnocentric, aren't we?

Except, I imagine, for Jehovah's Witnesses: I was invited to a JH wedding gathering some years ago, and with all the colors of the rainbow present, all ages, even within families, I truly thought I had been given a preview of heaven (and my vision was not rose-colored: there was no champagne, either). Not surprisingly, these people were the only religious group in Germany to stand up to Hitler in the 1930s, Christian or otherwise.