Father Pfleger Does Chris Rock

For the Pastors, Priests and Reverends who cannot close their mouths ...
Lord hear our prayer ...

Ultimately, this is not much more than a stand-up act. But now, despite the decades of activist work on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged, Father Pfleger will be on You Tube in perpetuity for his Chris Rock impersonation ...

Sen. Barack Obama sought Thursday night to extinguish a burgeoning controversy over another Chicago minister who supports him, denouncing the comments of a Catholic priest who said “a whole lot of white people [are] crying” because a black man was within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination.

The remarks by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a white minister known as “Chicago’s renegade priest” for his liberal social activism in the city’s black community, came from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, the same church where sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright came under scrutiny from critics who called them anti-American and racially divisive.

Pfleger, pastor of predominantly black St. Sabina’s Catholic Church, who fiercely defended Wright even as Obama eventually rejected his support, sounded similar themes Sunday in a guest sermon at Wright’s church.
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Saying he was seeking to “expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head,” Pfleger mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York for appearing to weep at a campaign appearance before the New Hampshire primary in January, saying she was crying because “there’s a black man stealing my show.”

“She always thought, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife, I’m white and this is mine,’” Pfleger said in his fiery sermon.

As the racially mixed congregation responded “Amen!” and “Yes, sir!” Pfleger pretended to cry and shouted: “And then out of nowhere came him, Barack Obama. And she said: ‘Damn! Where did you come from?! I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’

“She wasn’t the only one crying!” he said. “There was a whole a lot of white people crying!”

I was watching the white Irish Catholic pundits on MSNBC this morning and I'm sure Father Pfleger is unlike any priest they've ever seen. Heck, he's not like any of the priests, black or white, that I was exposed to while growing up Catholic. But, he's serving and pandering to his "community." The Obama campaign can call him divisive or "backwards" but he was getting lots of laughs and the "Amens." The Obama campaign is going to have to stop running from how many black people, young and old, feel. I don't agree with the comments made in this little side show but he was regurgitating the things I've heard for months from black folks. Luckily, Pfleger denounced his own comments and hopefully I won't have to see this being looped on the news over and over for weeks on end.