While I disagree with quite a lot of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s policies as a movement social conservative, here he hits the nail on the head by recognizing exactly what Sen. Barack Obama was discussing in his historic speech on race relations in modern America:

HUCKABEE: [...] And one other thing I think we’ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say “That’s a terrible statement!”…I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told “you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus…” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me. (emphasis added)

That’d be a little thing known as “context” and concisely echoes the thoughts that columnists Derrick Jackson and Bob Herbert, among several other Americans, have laid out…

PS: The Wright sermon on 9/11 (here) is quite clearly discussing the notion that we reap what we sow; something Christ himself instructed in giving us the 11th Commandment (John 13:34).

For conservative partisans like Washington Times’ Diana West Christ’s New Commandment apparently implies “anti-Americanism” which is odd since her fellow conservatives like Rev. Pat Robertson and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 not on America’s past actions at fomenting unrest abroad but on their fellow Americans instead…. Is it not “anti-Americanism” to blame one’s fellow Americans just because they’re gay or a woman? What doesn’t Ms. West understand about that? ;)

(h/t Daily Kos)