Black Church Challenge State

Everyone in the press and all of the esteemed voters across the country has been responding to controversial statements of Pastor Wright, former pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Most of this hoopla is to combat Obama’s seemingly clean background. Riding on Pastor Wright’s comments have proved to curb some of Obama’s momentum in the Presidential nominee contest. However; now putting such malarkey behind him, Obama is once again be held responsible for yet another grown individual whom holds personal opinions: enters the new rookie pastor Otis Moss.

Moss, 37, has picked up where Wright left off in controversial statements. The press has sound bits of Moss calling Biblical figures “pimps”. “Abraham pimped his own wife.”

Moss likens many prophets to thugs with comments such as, “Moses was a thug and if he got mad would give you a royal beat down.”

But, are Moss and Wright the only black pastors that use radical and canorously hip rhetoric to communicate with their African American congregants? What business is it of the press and non- affiliated Christian -especially white- to say how a message is conveyed from Trinity’s pulpit.

In the eyes of Trinity’s black audience, Pastor Wright’s comments of America’s crimes toward blacks and the world weren’t damning, but accurate. How do a white American controlled press and white voters define cultural reality for a black congregation?

Pastor Moss was held accountable for statements accusing the American government of infesting black neighborhoods with drugs and violence. He further opined that the press has contempt for the African American citizen, “Currently, there are eight companies controlling 90 percent of everything we hear, read, watch on television or view in the movie theater. These companies operate with contempt and disdain for the black community.”

It’s fine to challenge such strong allegations, however, the press and public need to challenge Moss -and other black pastors- with facts proven these acquisitions wrong. It’s not enough to just say Pastor Wright was offensive, hell racism is offensive: America needs to prove him wrong.

As for Pastor Moss, nick named the “hip -hop pastor”, his approach to his congregation is an issue that should be graded by his congregation. Outsiders from other demographics and cultures have no qualification to convict his sermons unless they perpetuate crime.