Posted on 05/02/2007 11:14:07 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
[I]n 1984, [Wright] traveled to Cuba to teach Christians about the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Wright said his visits implied no endorsement of their views.
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On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns.”
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“The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification,” [Obama] said in a recent interview. He was not at Trinity the day Mr. Wright delivered his remarks shortly after the attacks, Mr. Obama said, but “it sounds like he was trying to be provocative.”
“Reverend Wright is a child of the 60s, and he often expresses himself in that language of concern with institutional racism and the struggles the African-American community has gone through,” Mr. Obama said. “He analyzes public events in the context of race. I tend to look at them through the context of social justice and inequality.”
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Birds of a feather and all that?
Does this mean that Rev. Wright "is down with The Struggle" while Obama is not? Or does this mean that Obama is denouncing the race baiting political rhetoric of Rev. Wright without calling him out directly and publicly for it?
He’s going to have a tough time selling his act to middle America with these skeletons clanging around in his closet.
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