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Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem
The hysteria over Obama's former pastor's attacks on America shows we're still in thrall to knee-jerk patriotism.
By Gary Kamiya [2008-03-25]

  • "made it seem like that's exactly what he was saying"?

    That *is* exactly what he was saying. 9/11 wasn't a foreseeable consequence, it was a moral imperative. Why do some people think they can't simultaneously feel that the Iraq War was a huge mistake *and* that Wright is barking mad?

    The US government invented HIV to kill blacks? are you shitting me? Oh, but that's understandable because of Tuskegee. But when I white person makes a similarly batshit statement based on the personal experience of some white folks...well, he's just an asshole.

    If you're going to defend Wright, then defend what he said -- not what you wish he'd said.

    -- aeschylus
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    Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:19 AM
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