Letters to the Editor
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Read what Hillary's minister said about Wright. Moron. And wright's anger is directly in line with old testament theology. read some, idiot.
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Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem.
All due respect to Mr. Kamiya's analysis, with some of which I agree. Where I think he fails is in understanding human nature. To be labeled racist, or homophobe, or any other pejorative term, when you aren't, is taken to be unfair. So I want to be fair.
Assume that a presidential candidate had spent 20 years in a church pastored by a KKK minister. Is there any sane person who would think he'd get a nod from a political party? His comment that he didn't agree with the pastor would not be believed.
Wright has allied himself with Farrakhan. If a pastor in any church I attended made the racial comments Wright did, I would've been gone after the first hearing. Wright teaches Liberation Theology. I think he'd do better listening to Bill Cosby.
I was thrilled by Obama's speech as it related to racial issues. I am disturbed by the economic requirements to pass what he suggests are cures for inequality in income and education.
I don't believe Sen. Obama has satisfactorily dealt with a 20 year relationship with a black racist anti-Semite.
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@Aeschylus, I know this is coming late in the game...
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.
Listen, I have faith in the government, too, Aeschylus, but the U.S. government has a history of medically experimenting on people of color. Did you know that as recently as the 1970s, poor black women, Latinas and Native American women were forcibly sterilized, sometimes without their knowledge, by Public Aid offices? Sometimes children as young as 10? And all of this happened, not to mention the syphilis experiments, throughout Wright’s lifetime.
That’s why it was important in Obama’s speech when he compared Wright to his grandmother. As a black person, I realize that the whole the government gave black people AIDS is kind of a commonly held belief in the black community, but that doesn't mean I agree with such sentiment. I excuse that kind of thinking because I know from where it stems and have heard it repeated to me from people I hold dear. I think there is tendency to excuse such lines of thinking because we feel justified in our anger (Why shouldn't dude think that?), but really it keeps us chained, makes us relive pain. Institutional racism still has us in a chokehold, but at least we aren't getting the firehoses. Obama is asking us to realize that, it may be bad, but it isn’t as bad as it used to be. He’s asking us to cut some slack to those who grew up in and lived in an era that wasn’t as open as we are today.
I find myself torn about agreeing with Obama, that the way to move forward is to recognize that these kind of paranoid thoughts have their origins in a different time--because then I remember all the young black men locked up, the dire situation when it comes to educating black kids, the fact that blacks are still primarily poor. And then I realize that these two realities are not antithetical. And you wanna know why? It's because I am possible--a black kid raised by a single mother in the projects in America (in the 1980s, no less, during the crack epidemic) on food stamps. And like Obama, I really believe that the United States uniquely presents opportunities for people like me that no other country does. It makes me believe in the power of the ideals we hold up for ourselves in this country. And I want to embrace that.
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Ray Walker, it is, in fact, unfair or you to compare Wright to the KKK
The KKK has actively, and advocates, the murder of nonwhites, particularly black Americans. Are you seriously suggesting that Wright should be equated with a murderous group such as that?
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and rome burned
(play music in foreground) Mr. Obama is a liar, a hypocrite, and a racist. Rev. Wright epitomizes everything wrong with the human race and with religion per se. Mr. Obama, by seeking out this type of pastor and attending his church for 20 years (don't forget their close friendship outside of church), has shown us exactly who he is. He is a horrid little man with an enomormous ego and even larger greed. While you foolish souls debate meaningless fodder, rome is burning....
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It's Not about what Rev Wright said it's about what Obama did
There is no hysteria about what Rev Wright says .There are religious fanatics of many colors,enough to go around for everyone.The issue boils down to one of two possible answers for americans,either Obama didn't realize what was being preached in his church or was just trying for credit points from the black community and just playing politics.This is a big character and judgement red flag either way folks.This is enough concern for most to wish to dig a little deeper and do a good backround check.He is applying for,after all, one of the most important jobs we people have to offer.The only hysteria being created is by media trying to make the masses feel somehow wrong for being duly diligent in checking the backround and character of every applicant for that position.If Barrack Obama is who he claims he should welcome the scrutiny and take the opportunity to show americans he truly is the dream of Martin Luther King realized and that he boldly stands for the content of character over the color of skin.If a Church preaches hate and racism the congregation is taught to be racist and hateful.The long time connection by Barrack is a concern . We need to be sure he will represent all of us and not just some of us.When the Al Sharptons,Jesse Jacksons,and Barrack Obamas speak out equally against the Rev Wrights as they do the Rev Falwells of the world we will know the black community has finally liberated itself from the many among them who profit from this racial hatred and bigotry. The majority of americans see this,because we all live it, and in the words of John Lennon "If you want money for people with minds that hate,all I can tell you is brother you have to wait".We won't elect a president who hates or couldn't recognize it for 20 years and take a stand firmly against it either.That person would not make a good president.