Senator Barack Obama is planning to give what has been described a major speech on race today. Obama is expected to repeat his denunciations of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. On Friday, Obama removed Wright from his religious advisory committee and called some of Wright’s statements “inflammatory and appalling.” Over the past week, Wright has been scrutinized in the media for praising Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, for linking the attacks of September 11 to US foreign policy in the Middle East, and for saying that the country was founded on racism. Obama has described Wright as his spiritual mentor. Wright married him and his wife, baptized their two daughters and blessed their Chicago house.