>>>>Dream on. He went to the same church every Sunday and never heard what the pastor said. Great memory and attention to details.
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>>>That's not what he said. He said he sometimes heard things he disagreed with, but that he heard lots more there, too.
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>>>I don't know about you, but I've disagreed with my rabbi's sermons plenty of times, and wouldn't want his politics to be assumed to be mine. (FWIW, I said the same thing before Obama said something like it in his speech.) A church or synagogue is much more than just the preacher; it's a community that one belongs to for lots of reasons.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Did he say it before or after? Initial reaction was that he never heard and (a bit after) that he did not pay attention. Now (bigger after) he heard but could not disown.
>>Hopefully, your rabbi has milder views. In my books if you hear something that you don't like much (let's put it diplomatically) and stay silent and continue normal discourse, as if nothing happened, with the person then the inaction becomes a complicity.
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>The vehement racism demonstrated by Obama's 'pastor' and the fact that it was delivered to incite racism from the congregation are not to be ignored or washed over by anyone.

Probably so.

Is it racism to reflexively bring up Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan when a black man's name is mentioned? To me that makes about as much sense as bringing up Timothy McVeigh and Ted Bundy when a white man's name is mentioned. Those two yo-yos don't represent all black people, by any means.