Why would I feel "threatened"? That's just silly. I was wondering when the church would come more out in the open. I predicted to my wife it would be after he secured the nomination. I didn't think Hillary would go there, but knew that fully funded 527s would.
That is plain idiobabble stated to give yourself a reason to excuse another's racism because you want it to be something other than it is. You feel uncomfortable that you supported somebody that clearly had the poor judgment to support somebody that is clearly racist. Enough that even the person you so desperately want to support says that the statements are alarming.
IMO, his statements are weak excuses and it is inconceivable that he could be a member of the church for 20 years with no clue whatsoever of the racism inherent in the culture of the church as taught from the pulpit.
And you know if it was an R candidate and a white church, like Duke, they would already have been rejected. Soundly. I think you get embarrassed by the hypocrisy apparent in such ideological slavery and because of that embarrassment you work to excuse anything at all, even against a person who isn't even the candidate.
Whether or not I understand the underflow of anger that causes such racism, I can certainly recognize racism.
Let's put it this way. If any R Candidate went to a church that had this as it's "about us" statement:
They'd be out long ago and forced to live in shame.
Instead we have one that has a D by their name that has this one:
I changed only a total of four words... White to black, slavery to immigration, African to Aryan, and segregation to integration.
While the experience that brought the racism to the fore is entirely different, it doesn't change what it is.