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On Tuesday Barack Obama secured enough delegates to become the Democrat nominee to run for US President in the autumn. His rival, Hillary Clinton, has yet to concede. On Saturday, Mr Obama resigned his membership of Trinity United Church in Chicago after a video was released of a guest preacher at the church, Fr Michael Pfleger, saying that Mrs Clinton expected to win the nomination because she was white. Mr Obama was already at odds with the inflammatory views of the church’s former pastor, the Revd Jeremiah Wright



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