Letters to the Editor
MEPosey
Published Letters: 2
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Re: The Thing Is
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Notorious W.E.S. states:
The Thing Is
Much of what Wright said is more reasonable than the regular menu. I paraphrase. Wright's rhetoric is a little more flamboyant.
1.) The Government created disease to unleash on minorities........This one is kinda goofy.
Goofy? Not really. In 1972, the cover was pulled back on the Tuskegee Experiment. The Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the study in 1932. Nearly 400 poor black men with syphilis from Macon County, Ala., were enrolled in the study. They were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the men were told they were being treated for "bad blood," a local term used to describe several illnesses, including syphilis, anemia and fatigue. At the start of the study, there was no proven treatment for syphilis. But even after penicillin became a standard cure for the disease in 1947, the medicine was withheld from the men. The Tuskegee scientists wanted to continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. The experiment lasted four decades, until public health workers leaked the story to the media. By then, dozens of the men had died, and many wives and children had been infected. But it wasn't until 1997 that the government formally apologized for the unethical study. President Clinton delivered the apology, saying what the government had done was deeply, profoundly and morally wrong.
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jul/tuskegee/
In other words, it is not above the US to use its citizens for medical study. Sorry, but the past suggests that this is all too possible.
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Pastor of Clinton's Church Supports Wright!
[Read the article: Clinton: Wright "would not have been my pastor"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if she is ready to "denounce and reject" the pastor of the church that she and Bill attended while in Washington because he supports Rev. Wright? Please read the following letter issued by Rev. Snyder:
"The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia which still tarnish the American dream. To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize. This is a critical time in America's history as we seek to repent of our racism. No matter which candidates prevail, let us use this time to listen again to one another and not to distort one another's truth."
Dean J. Snyder, Senior Minister
Foundry United Methodist Church
March 19, 2008