Was rereading your post and was thinking that when this all started, we gave Wright a pass because of the era in which he grew up, and the psychology of the black liberation theology. Even though he grew up middle class, he still endured all the discrimination, it was all still very recent. Sure, he can be angry-- even very angry-- since he has ingested and preached these things for many years.
But right now, with a national turning point in sight, a black man in the White House, a man who was turning the country on with the promise of unity, hope, dreams, instead of seeing this as a possible culmination, Rev Wright chooses not to step back. No, he wants to keep living the hate and anger. Even when it impedes one of the greatest steps AAs could hope for.
No, I just don't get it. |
