Letters to the Editor
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Rev. Wright is indeed the problem.
Setting up a premise that we as Americans are "surprised and horrified that some black people feel anger at white people..." and then writing on the basis of this false premise is a self massage.
What guilt does a white Russian who came to America is 1934 or a Swedish immigrant in 1956 bear towards Black America. The fact is that no white American bears this guilt based on their skin color. To ignore this is monumental ignorance. This reveals the bankrupt philosophy of Rev. Wright.
In fact, people like Rev. Wright are the problem in the same way that the Ku Klux Klan is a problem. Namely, they represent "philosophies" that contain the rhetoric of deluded children.
I am not "horrified" in the manner that Mr. Kamiya suggests but am in fact disturbed that more people are not calling this man out for the racial bigot that he is.
The Ku Klux Klan boasts of the imagined wrongs done to them in the exact same way Rev. Wright does. The hypocrisy is astounding. Wright has more in common with Hitler than with Jesus Christ. Like Ward Churchill and Susan Sontag, their self loathing for American culture is at the heart of their rhetoric and their childish excuse for "intellectualism" is pitiful to behold.
As a photographer I read Sontag's "On Photography" with horror in the 1970's. You could get more insight about photography in the episode of "The Flintstones" where Fred tried to be a photographer than any of Sontag's imbuing the obvious with the profound.
What is truly profound is Wright's denouncement of an entire people by skin color while at the same time accusing that very race of doing the same thing. Hypocrisy on such a public level and the idea of having a President who looks up to such a man is what is horrifying.