This comes from a document explaining “The Black Value System” on the website of the Obamas’ Trinity Church:

Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must keep the captive ignorant educationally, but trained sufficiently well to serve the system. Also, the captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control. Those so identified as separated from the rest of the people by: Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another. Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons. Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us”. So, while it is permissible to chase “middle-incomeness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method-the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness”: If we avoid the snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright, the leadership, resourcefulness, and example of their own talented persons.

I’m not a fan of cherrypicking from someone’s religion, taking religious stuff out of context, etc. Heaven knows I sometimes hear things from a Catholic pulpit or read something in a Catholic church’s bulletin that I don’t agree with (and is not actual RCC doctrine, etc.). But Trinity Church has been an influence on Barack Obama — or so he has told us. And it so happens that we know very little about Barack Obama’s core. So the questions have to be asked. Is this his core? What is his core?

How many times, Senator, have you heard the phrase “this racist United States of America!” at church? Did it ever bother you? How and why?

These are not questions about undergarments here.

Ultimately, Mitt Romney was forced to give a faith-based speech that helped demonstrate his core (and, for some, that he had one). Shouldn’t there be a similar movement for Obama to step up?