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To: Katelew who wrote (54985)	3/21/2008 9:30:55 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542158

>>Hate speech in and of itself is repugnant. To find it in a church setting is doubly so for many people.<< Kate - Leaving aside for a moment the question of whether Wright's words really amount to hate speech, I have something else for you. I've just come across these words, spoken by another black leader, also an ordained minister, for whom Obama has frequently expressed admiration. He was talking about people who raised questions regarding his condemnation of violence in the ghetto. The emphasis is mine. "They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent." Do you think Obama should repudiate these words and the man who spoke them? - Allen