The most interesting thing about the Reverend Wright controversy is how people reacted to it. Reporters, professors, lawyers, and more – all successful people leaped to defend both Wright and Obama because their comments were “taken out of context”. Their reaction, however, is completely within context. It didn’t matter how much success or wealth they achieved in their chosen field, all of them identified with Wright and Obama as oppressed minorities. The only difference from the Jim Crow era is, now they are rich oppressed minorities instead of poor oppressed minorities.

You can see the same thing in the feminist movement. As women become CEOs and Senators and Entrepreneurs, they are simply transformed from poor oppressed feminists to rich oppressed feminists. The old grievances are replaced with a new list of injustices that is twice as long.

There’s one other transformation to mention – the accumulation of wealth by the legal firms and media conglomerates that foster all of the finger pointing. In this case, poor crusading attorneys are transformed into rich crusading attorneys. Automobile accidents, product safety, medical malpractice, workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, the opportunities are endless. There is no limit to the tales of woe a lawyer can spin. Their talents are only exceeded by the media pundits who labeled our current economy as the worst since the great depression.

What’s the solution? One thing is to remove the profit incentive. As long as people can make money pandering to race and gender, they will continue to do so. That means you need to take away the huge jury trial settlements and the billable hours away from the attorneys. And take the advertising income away from the media conglomerates.

Since I’m from California, you might expect this kind of thing from the enviro nut jobs. But I’m not there right now – I’m in Cincinnati on a business trip, driving a rental car. None of which mattered to the mentally challenged individual who decided to brighten my day by blaming me for rising gas prices.

I could have responded in kind by taking a few unwashed babies, thowing them at her, shouting “this is YOUR FAULT for overpopulating the earth!” and driven away in a huff. My charges would be more accurate – females have far more control over children than I have over gas prices. But what would that have accomplished?

As I drove to work, I pondered how pervasive left wing class warfare has become. And despite the death match between Obama and Hillary, the fact remains that both of them are clearly in the blame America first crowd. Don’t like high gas prices? Blame the Republicans, blame your neighbor, blame the oil companies, point the finger wherever you can. Ignore the fact that gas prices are still far cheaper here than they are in Europe. Forget that American oil companies are forbidden to drill for more oil in Anwar or offshore. No, just point the finger at your (supposedly) rich white male neighbor.

Which brings me to Obama and his crazy “uncle” Reverend Wright. Wright’s rantings include blaming the US for Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, claiming that the government invented the AIDS virus to infect black people, and bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that’s just a short list to start with.

These ideas are not new. I heard some of them when I was in college 20 years ago. And I went to a relatively conservative liberal arts college. These kinds of conspiracy theories are not only prevalent among blacks, but are pervasive throughout academia as well. Think Duke university and the false claims by the black stripper against the white students last year, enabled by Mike Nifong, an over zealous prosecutor. The left wing students and professors jumped onboard the bandwagon, and issued only the most perfunctuary explanations after the charges were proved false. After all, they were on the side of the revolution against the evil white males, doesn’t that excuse them?

That’s why Hillary can’t say too much about Obama and his minister. Because he can expose Hillary and her leftist college friends, who spout the same kind of left wing hate that Wright does. It’s also why Fox news took the lead on this story – the other networks would rather not cover it, because they agree with Wright too. With Dan Rather like logic, they might admit that Wright’s facts are wrong, but his heart is in the right place. But since Fox forced their hand, they’ve jumped into the story now, reasoning that they can at least boost their ratings by doing so.

 The problem is, this kind of leftist hate has been indoctrinated by diversity types, feminists, the media, and black power advocates into college students for decades now. It’s institutionalized. These people could care less how economies flow or how supply and demand works. They don’t even care about the fundamentals of foreign policy. No, it’s all about giving voice to your feelings that the evil white males have silenced within you for centuries. It’s about getting even.

But like most revolutionaries, they can’t hit their target. Rich white males hide their money behind clever attorneys and offshore tax shelters. Like Al Gore, who became a multi-millionaire by accepting sweetheart stock options deals from Google. Or Bill Moyers, who spouts leftist rhetoric on PBS and NPR daily, and then denies health care coverage to his own employees. Shouldn’t he at least follow his own health care dictates before the rest of us have to?

As Geraldine Ferraro found out, it’s fun blaming white males from a feminist point of view, but not so fun when black males turn racist allegations against you. Isn’t it irritating being labeled with group guilt? Not that this setback seems to have gotten through to her – she still sniffs about her decades of service to the feminist movement in a self righteous way.

Speaking of entitlement, how about Michelle Obama? She’s a lawyer who went to both Princeton and Harvard law school, and she’s filled with rage towards whites. Which proves that the leftist vision of America is wrong – more economic opportunities won’t satisfy blacks. If anything, rich blacks are more angry than poor blacks. But the most revealing blacks I saw were the ones interviewed on Fox news. These are media figures, reporters, university professors, all well to do. After the by the numbers assertions that Wright is wrong, they exposed their own rage, insisting that Wright was taken out of context. But it was clear that they themselves are not being taken out of context – they hate America too. Because they’ve been indoctrinated over the decades regardless of the economic success they now enjoy.

And don’t think that electing Obama will fix any of this. No, as Henry Kissinger found out, once you give in to the left, they just want more. Because this is primarily a leftist driven issue, with race as the excuse up front. Claims of racial inequality or feminist glass ceilings inevitably lead to socialist solutions to fix the problem. That’s the real goal.