Letters to the Editor
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Thank you for having some sense!!!
After listening to the host of NPR's usually on-point "Fair Game" riff stupidly on the 'crazy uncle' spin by her calling her own 'crazy uncle' to have him agree with her that no good American would ever say the terrible things that Wright said, no matter how drunk or crazy, I've despaired of seeing anyone put their flag down long enough to really look at Wright's statements.
Anything pronounced from a pulpit is automatically suspect to me, but some of what Wright is saying does ring true with my gist of what has gone on and continues to go on in this country. As the article points out, it wasn't Wright who sent 4000 (so far) off to die - why is he the big bad enemy?
It is a point in Barak Obama's favour that he does have a relationship with someone who has the chutzpah to say out loud what others, others who have been historically denied (via violence and legislation) the right to say what they have seen, may be thinking. He's level-headed enough to pull the facts out of what Wright is saying and hopefully, he will remember them should he be in a position to act on them. And maybe he will also have chutzpah to someday tell his fellow Americans some of the things that we don't want to hear about the outcome of our way of doing things.