Yes- I’ve read it several times and can’t help but wonder how this can bring us together as Americans? The insistence on remaining apart and separate from whites is truly disturbing.
Last night I was listening to part of a sermon I’d not heard before (on Greta) and heard Wright list all the sins of the founders, then he added the amendments that corrected those sins as if even the amendments were bad. I had a sense that it wouldn’t matter what was done- for Wright there will never be peace between us, only more instances of white evil.
I found the part on middleclassness to be the most disturbing part of the Black Value System. It assumes a conspiratorial white society that is trying to manipulate blacks by selecting a few “Uncle Toms” to sway opinion and attitudes to keep the rest of blacks down. It is insane, yet it forms the philosophical basis of the church. This is where the attention needs to be focussed, i.e., more on the church itself than on what a particular pastor says or if Obama was in attendance for a particular sermon.