Letters to the Editor
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...about the Rasmussen poll
The poll doesnt differentiate between whether or not Black folks disagree with what Wright says or the fact that he is speaking at this moment. I think you have to take into account that Black folks are hoping that they will be represented in the White House. We have had the faith that Obama is the closest thing to doing this for us. The politics of that kind of representation are different from whether or not Black folks agree with Wright's comments. Black folks are much more complicated than that. Including that 12% you mention. That 12% (and I would argue more) don't think it is beyond the government to do such things. The feds have copped to infiltrating urban black communities with drugs, the u.s. government has a relatively recent history is turning a blind eye and participating in medical experiments on Black people. Not only the Tuskeegee Experiment, but the Mississippi appendectomies that left many black women without the means to reproduce in the 1960s... It amazes me how folks think that it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE that the U.S. government would want to kill black folks... it seems as if Black folks only have this memory that the U.S. government has a rich history of doing just that.