Note to the African-American community - The religious right doesn't care about you

A quick quiz:

The New York Post just published a highly racist editorial cartoon depicting the first black president of the United States as a dead chimpanzee.

What do you do?

A. Criticize the cartoonist for creating the racist cartoon?

B. Criticize the New York Post for publishing the racist cartoon?

C. Ignore the racist cartoon entirely and criticize U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for commenting (pretty much at the same time frame that the cartoon was published) that when it comes to discussing racial issues, the country is a nation of cowards?

If you are One News Now and Rev. Harry Jackson, the answer is C:

Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., a Maryland pastor and chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, disagrees with Holder and says it was "horrible" for the attorney general to read those comments as a prepared speech.

"He intended to give us a signal, however, that he was going to overcome cowardice as he administrates and adjudicates the law of the land. And he began to list, somewhere toward the end, that blacks had opened the door for women's rights, for other groups," he notes. "And I can't help but think that he is going to try to prosecute affirmative action cases and even cases that deal with gay rights and issues such as hate rimes in the days ahead."

There is no big point to be made here.

But it's something to remember the next time One News Now, Jackson or anyone connected with religious right groups pretend as if they are the black community's savior against those so-called "evil gays who are trying to exploit the civil rights movement to validate their sinful lifestyle."

The black community should remember that sometimes those who claim to be your saviors are the ones you should be wary of.