Farrakhan’s award from Obama’s Church

Sen. Barack Obama belongs to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Trinity United Church is “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian.” You can read more about it here, but keep in mind this doesn’t make Obama’s Church racist.

Obama was asked about his Church early on in this Presidential race. He said this:

“Commitment to God, black community, commitment to the black family, the black work ethic, self-discipline and self-respect,” he said. “Those are values that the conservative movement in particular has suggested are necessary for black advancement. So I would be puzzled that they would object or quibble with the bulk of a document that basically espouses profoundly conservative values of self-reliance and self-help.”

However, The Trinty United Church of Christ awarded Louis Farrakhan an award through their Trumpet Magazine. Not only an award, but the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. award to Farrakhan because he “”truly epitomized greatness.” The same man who said whites are the devil and Jews are the real anti-Semites epitomizes greatness.

Nonetheless, Obama distanced himself from Trumpet Magazine, his Church and Louis Farrakhan. He said, “”I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan, I assume that Trumpet Magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree.”

So, in all honesty, does an endorsement from Louis Farrakhan really matter?