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A funny thing happens when you encourage people to factionalize; they revert back to the basic human desire to achieve the alpha status; the fundamental desire to be "in charge;" to be the one individual or faction in the community whom the others follow and defer to. This primal aspiration leads to a quest for superiority. That quest results in the division of society into competitive entities which serves to further bind the factional elements as they quest for superiority over the other factions. It is culturally destructive and a vicious self-fueling cycle, about as far away from cohesiveness as one can get.

When the nation witnessed the bigotry and racism of Barack Obama's spiritual leader, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, we were witnessing the by-product of the multicultural ideology; we were witnessing the rage born of a Black supremacist questing for his faction's superiority. While it cannot be denied that the Black community has had to overcome incredible inequities and hardships throughout its American experience, so too it cannot be denied that today is not yesterday and few in the White community, as it exists today, are culpable for the inequities of the past.

That Jeremiah Wright's assertions were divisive, aggressive and mired in the false-proclamation of victimhood is understood by anyone willing to be honest about the issue. But if honesty is to prevail in a real conversation about race and culture in today's United States of America we must all take responsibility for our actions, our anger, our rage and admit that for all the rhetoric about bridging the racial and cultural divide we must move forward in action and deed, casting aside the race-baiters and haters and their cultural heroin of victimhood.

That the United States is a diverse nation is a true statement. We are a collection of families and individuals originating, whether in the present generation or generations past, from the four corners of the earth. But the ethos that would most cohesively bind us together, the ideology of e pluribus unum, the commonly held desire for freedom to craft our lives with limited interference from the government -- liberty -- has been abandoned. If our country is to survive we must abandon the failed ideology of multiculturalism before it is too late. We must reestablish our commitment to the American ideology.

Politically, no matter how Obama and his handlers try to free his campaign from the issues of Jeremiah Wright and the racial divide that exists in our country. the damage to his campaign has been done. Obama's poll numbers are dropping and the question of whether or not he is actually electable is being discussed in serious circles. Rather than quelling the "firestorm" (Obama's words) that has erupted around the indignant and racist remarks of his spiritual leader, Obama's speech provoked caution about his candidacy from within his own party. It indicated to the Progressive-Left that he is willing to chance the examination of one of their core tenets -- multiculturalism and, through it, diversity.

The real questions are these: Is Barack Obama willing to forfeit his chance at the brass ring -- the Oval Office -- in order to move the much needed examination of the racial and cultural divides forward? Or did he bite off more than he could chew by playing the race card in trying to salvage his political career?

The longer these questions go unanswered the more damage his campaign endures.

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Frank Salvato is the Executive Director and Director of Terrorism Research for Basics Project a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. He can be contacted at newmediajournal@comcast.net.

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