Martin Luther King Vs Jeremiah Wright

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2008/04/profound_desire.html

A very confused and patchy discussion of race in America and its bearing on the Democratic primary race...

What seems unclear to the participants of the debate is the distinction between the conception of race relations espoused by Martin Luther King Jr and the conception espoused by Rev Jeremiah Wright. Martin Luther King foresaw a time when race would disappear from peoples sight, when it would become invisible and unimportant. All 'races' would live together without distinction, living happily together as Americans. This is directly contrary to the Jeremiah Wright conception. Jeremiah Wright foresees a time when Whites are subservient and bow the knee to blacks, although it is not clear how this will come about. He sees blacks and whites as eternally competing groups, although right and virtue is always on the sides of blacks and evil and oppressiveness are always white. This latter conception fits neatly into the larger conception beloved of Democrats which views the US (indeed all) polity as composed of an oppressive white majority constantly at war with a collection of aggrieved minority groups, blacks, latinos, native Americans, women, gays, transgender etc. Justice will be served when the minority groups rise up and destory and subdue the oppressive white majority, and force them into submission.

The two conceptions are utterly inimical. The first is a recipe for a happy and harmonious society, aligning perfectly with Christian teaching about love and the enlightenment ideals of treating very unequal people equally under the law. The second is a recipe for a fractured and warring civil space, a constant fight for both moral and physical superiority, and endless opportunities for enmity. It is also highly likely that the minorities will lose, as they hold very few advantages, and depend largely on the indulgence and forbearance of the longsuffering majority. In a straight fight, the minorities will always lose (see Zimbabwe).

I read articles like the one above, and can't help feeling that in general Americans are less and less clear about the basic positions held in the culture wars. Clarity is hard to find. Is Obama basically a Martin Luther King Jr, or a Jeremiah Wright? Does he know? When will we find out?