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I listened to the Bill Moyers interview and the NAACP speech and found them very interesting and enjoyable indeed.
But I did cringe inside when I read the Rev's other remarks about how Barack spoke as a politician and Rev. Wright spoke as a preacher because he is presuming to read Obama's mind and is making judgments that Obama is not telling the truth and Rev. Wright has turned that into his reality. That is a very very unfair statement to Obama, and it goes to the root of Rev. Wright's problem which is that sometimes he takes kernels of truth and then he takes a large leap and starts making a whole lot of assumptions. Then he starts speaking for other people like he knows what is fact, when really he doesn't.
The chickens coming home to roost thing does have, I feel, some truth to it in that our policies are partly to blame for us getting into trouble. But there seems to be a bit of an air of satisfaction that we are getting our comeuppance, and that, I think is where he gets into trouble.
The AIDS thing...I understand how he can be suspicious due to the Tuskeegee situation and all, but really, without really solid evidence, he should not be teaching this to kids...that their government hates them so much they will deliberately give them a disease that will kill them. That simply isn't fair and believing that can be an awful burden for a kid to bear. I wish he would be a little more responsible when he says these sorts of things..
Anyway, while I find the Rev. very interesting, I do feel that emphasizing how we are different (even if nobody is deficient) is not what we need right now. It would be better if we could emphasize our commonality instead, and how we all need one another to make this country work the way we want it to. We all have a role to play, we are all equally valuable in achieving our goals for this country.
So that's my take on the Rev. I do feel bad that he got the attention of the firing squad and I have no doubt in my mind that he is a wonderful person, and that he is doing everything he can to make a better world for everyone. He's just a bit misguided and misunderstood.
Hope my observations don't offend anyone.
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