Letters to the Editor
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re: Wright is not the problem
What the writer isn't understanding is that white shock at the Reverend's vitriol isn't that blacks are mad at whites. Among the top fears of white bigots is fear of black fury against whites. Of course whites have known for a long time the plight of racism.
The writer is stalling for time, searching for excuses for Wright's embarrassing crazy talk, and has convinced himself he can read the minds of whites. What nauseates whites i think is the black church's fantastic paranoia born of centuries of oppression. but american human rights has been evolving rapidly in a positive direction for last few decades.
Whites have been hungry for blacks to let non-blacks hear their own blinkered discussions -- beyond racial equality -- born of ignorance, fear, and lack of will to educate themselves and their children out of their bigoted muck.
the funny thing is, the more we can see blacks openly and intelligently discuss their own failings among themselves actually makes blacks show themselves to be more human, closer to the rest of us-- as humanly flawed as blacks accuse non-blacks of being. and that takes courage but the result will be confidence. blanket excuses, apologism, and paranoia come off as robotic, defensive, insecure, and mired in the nineteenth century.