Letters to the Editor
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The problem was not the content but the podium
Although you do point out correctly that some of his comments had some roots in reality and continuing racial divide, I just cannot shake off that he was using a religious podium to deliver that sermon. That medium carries a ``sanction from God'' and just as we liberals/progressives do not like Church leaders telling people to vote for Republicans, we should in honesty also detest any such ramblings from a liberal pastor. And there is also the fact that he was clearly campaigning against Sen. Clinton in one of those sermons and I am sorry, but I dont want my tax dollars to go to people with explicit
political goals.
I can go on, but any discussion of whether Wright said the right words or not has to be judged through the lens of whether he said it at the right place or not. In my opinion, his choice of venue makes his message plain wrong no matter what his choice of words are.