Redstate

In his Monday "Jeremiah Wright" speech. Barack Obama mentioned that O.J. Simpson trial. On ABC's Nightline that evening, he expressed confidence in Simpson's guilt and his shame for the behavior of those blacks who believed Simpson to be innocent.

"You remember when, during the O.J. trial ... black and white culture just had these completely opposite reactions and nobody understood it. I'm somebody who was pretty clear that O.J. was guilty," Obama told "Nightline's" Terry Moran.

He continued: "And I was ashamed for my own community to respond in that way, but I also understood what was taking place, which was that reaction had more to do with a sense that somehow the criminal justice system historically had been biased so profoundly that a defeat of that justice system was somehow a victory."

The same logic is at work in the sermons of Wright and others, and in Obama's previous acceptance of them.