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Dana Milbank: Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of …

Slate discusses Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s charge that the U.S. government invented AIDS to kill blacks. Barack Obama rebuked his former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday for giving sermons in which he blamed the government for creating a racist state and “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.” Wright isn’t the first to …

Hillary isn’t the only one being embarrassed by her supporters. Barack Obama’s camp is distancing themselves from this sermon by Obama’s former minister Jeremiah Wright, who compares Obama to Jesus. This sermon was recorded in December, but has just surfaced on YouTube. Obama’s campaign says of Wright: “Sen. Obama has said before that he profoundly disagrees with some of the …