Letters to the Editor
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Majorities and Minorities
Garys premise is flawed. There is a patriotism/nationalism problem in the country but it has nothing to do with Wright. He is seeing a connection where none exists.
Minorities by their very nature as minorities have to yell a little louder, make more of a fuss, and generally raise the hyperbole level a bit or two to be heard and responded to. The majority has no such burden, so for example arguments of reverse discrimination by whites are ridiculous but nonetheless believed by most whites. Wright as a leader of his minority needs to use loud and shocking hyperbole. I won’t argue whether he went over the line in his sermons or not.
The issue is that Obama is running as president on the platform of uniting everyone, majorities and minorities. Wrights hyperbole while serving the needs of his people do not in any way serve Obamas unity platform and actually make the majority (whites) fearful of his being in the “pocket” of a minority (blacks). With whites stupidly already believing they are being reverse-discriminated against, having a black president with Wright as spiritual leader becomes untenable.
COncerning Wrights hyperbole, does he have an issue with gays or is he just ignorant like many preachers are? Just asking, seems kind of absurd for Wright to select AIDS to make his point, when in America, aids ferociously first hit the GAY community not the black community. Hell, if he wanted to make a point why did he not focus on the Tuskegee sylphilis experiments which are well documented and speaks explicitly of the inhumanity this government practiced towards black people?