“McCain will not reject nor denounce me!”

At the last Democratic debate, there was that riveting conversation about the differences between reject and denounce when it comes to the support of Minister Louis Farrakhan. Now a similar situation has come up with John McCain, but no one is making him go to the dictionary. The Arizona senator received the support of Pastor John Hagee, a Texas man of the cloth who has called the Catholic Church the following terms: “the Great Whore,” an “apostate church,” the “anti-Christ,” and a “false cult system.” Lovely. McCain stood on a stage with this guy and gladly took Hagee’s endorsement but thus far no calls for McCain to reject, condemn, denounce, or whatever word shows appropriate moral outrage.

This double standard is part of the country’s racial calculus and is not going to change soon. If you are white, then you are an individual not required to explain the silliness of your white brothers and sisters. If the melanin in your skin is enhanced, you are a stand in for the following: O.J., Farrakhan, and Revs. Jackson and Sharpton. When they say or do something nutty, you are expected to answer for it, even if their ravings/actions have nothing to do with you.