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ersial。 They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice。 Instead; they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country … a view that sees white racism as endemic; and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America。
As such; Reverend Wright's ments were not only wrong but divisive; divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to e together to solve a set of monumental problems … two wars; a terrorist threat; a falling economy; a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian; but rather problems that confront us all。
Given my background; my politics; and my professed values and ideals; there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough。 Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place; they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube; or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some mentators; there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way。
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But the truth is; that isn't all that I know of the man。 The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith; a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor。 He is a man who served his country as a ; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country; and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the mun