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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]

  • OK, I'll bite.

    I posted this on a War room thread, but I thought this would be a better place for it:

    I've seen the Rev. Wright thing on YouTube several times, including the longer bits of the sermon that add more (gasp) context to what he said, and I have to ask: What did he say that was so wrong?

    -It has been well documented that the government was sending drugs into the black neighborhoods of this country.

    -US funded-terrorism did indeed come back and bite us in the ass on 9/11.

    And that's just what is well known. Considering the bullshit the US government has historically put it's black population through (including the The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment amoung many others), is it really that difficult to understand why a black man from Rev. Wright's generation would say "God damn America" when faced with hypocritical patriotism from the mouthbreathers?

    What did he say that was wrong?

    -- gezelligtexas
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    Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:43 AM
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