No, not nuff. Not nearly nuff. Take a look at this, from Fox News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM

Yeah, Wright's trying to make the case that Jesus was a person of color, and I've got real problems with some significant aspects of his theology. But if you think he never mentions Jesus, it's because you haven't ever actually listened to him. If you're going to disagree, do so substantively, my friend.

"of course Jesus was white!"
--Saved, the movie

As David Levering Lewis points out in his recent book on Islam and the making of Europe, until about 800 AD there was no such concept as "European." Without it of course, "white" has no meaning either. "White" was a quaint designation made up by "Europeans" in the 1500s when they rediscovered that some people were even darker than Arabs, Berbers and Bedouins, who by the way are not all the same thing.

Jesus was, most likely some shade of bronze, not exactly as dark as a modern Nigerian, but far from as pale as the pagan barbarians lurking in the northern reaches of what later became known as Europe. Likewise, one of Rev. Wright's significant historical errors is that he called the Romans "white" and "European" and "Italian" when at least two out of three of those concepts didn't exist, and the Romans were most likely darker than the present inhabitants of Sicily, who are most likely part African in geneology.

The Norwegian Jesus is an apt reference. The first images of the "White Christ" were painted by bronze-skinned missionaries anxious to make the Savior culturally relevant to their newest converts.

But I stopped unapologetically upholding Wright when it became obvious that he was more interested in grabbing limelight for himself than in what his ill-timed and ill-thought meanderings might actually mean for the future of his flock or our nation. There is nothing prophetic about saying that AIDS was deliberately created to target African Americans (it hit well-heeled white homosexuals first), speaking well of Louis Farrakhan (who isn't even a particularly coherent Muslim), or repeating at any length less than an entire sermon that 9/11 was "America's chickens coming home to roost" when in fact those we have harmed most were NOT those who hijacked the planes, and those who did are enemies of everything Wright, on his better days, eloquently stands for.

I've seen the contempo versions of Dr. Who, back when I lived with friends who had cable. they rocked.

I try not to comment twice in one day on the same article, but as a melanin-deficient member of a church founded by African Americans, I don't buy the "scary black pastors" bit. On Sept 16, 2001, I heard a powerful sermon which included "We are one cocky arrogant nation. What happened to us last Tuesday was terrible, but don't you know that there are people in the world who wake up every morning wondering if a bomb will fall on their home? What makes our pain so much more important than theirs?" At least five members of the church worked in the Pentagon (people in the rest of the country may not know, but the entire middle level of the federal government is staffed mostly by African Americans), and another worked for the FBI. Pastor's remarks were wildly applauded by some, while others responded with smoldering dismay or resentment. Either way, I see a clear difference between his observation, and the callous "chickens coming home to roost" canard.

Let us also remember, there are thousands of "black pastors" who have been preaching for the last eight years what great Christians George W. Bush and John Ashcroft are, with negligible impact on the voting choices of their congregations. Its not about scary black pastors. Its about a whole lot of different ways of getting wrapped up in one's own bitterness, ambition, or self-promotion, inspiring people by doing good, and then throwing it away on tired platitudes. That comes in all colors and ideologies.

The Anglican reference to the Episode about Doctor Who saving people from Pompeii is from the most current season.