I could explain exactly “how America got this way”, but I don’t think there are many who will receive it.
Our country has an original sin. All that’s happening today was bound to happen because we never renounced that sin. Rev. Wright is a nasty messenger, but it wouldn’t be the first time the Lord used one such to chastise a sinful people. I fear God really will damn America, because America has freely chosen damnation.
As my 29 year old daughter says - “we need to be smited”.
If you're referring to slavery, it was renounced 150 years ago.