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...pastors like Wright who keep blacks down spiritually and economically and keep them grousing over their lot with a sense of entitlement that will never set them free to be everything they can be. The poor folks who belong to churches like Wright's have no idea that the hate and the damnation are dooming them to a hell of their own making. Trinity is a Christian church? Jesus never taught that stuff. Susan Abernethy, San Diego...
...Obama addressed the Wright problem before it assumed crisis proportions. In doing so, he displayed a clarity and depth of vision that I have not witnessed in any other politician. His speech was courageous and honest. Above all it showed remarkable faith in our nation's ability to see in shades of gray, rather than black and white. If this is an indication of how he would handle the presidency, I say hallelujah and amen. Farhat Biviji, Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
...failing to ask Wright to apologize for and renounce his bigotry, Obama is complicit in Wright's divisiveness. In failing to apologize for his bigotry, Wright enslaves his congregation to his hate. The fact that other African-American ministers have come forward to state that they have made similarly bigoted remarks suggests that there is much healing to be done. Racism is racism, no matter who practices it. David H. Herman, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania...
Senator Barack Obama has previously told us that words matter, and the venomous, vitriolic and racially divisive words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright are fraught with meaning of the most disturbing kind [March 31]. As your story observed, Obama failed to answer the central question that troubled American voters are asking: Why would Obama choose Wright to be his spiritual guide and personal mentor? And if Obama's candidacy is about the future, why would he expose his young daughters to such poisonous rhetoric of the past? Although he delivered his speech with his usual grace and eloquence...
...pastors like Wright who keep blacks down spiritually and economically. The poor folks who belong to churches like Wright's have no idea that the hate and damnation are dooming them to a hell of their own making. Wright's church is Christian? Jesus never taught that stuff. Susan Abernethy, SAN DIEGO...