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Originally Posted by dculkin
Right. His statements on the subject are over the top, but what do people expect? Our government did some really, really bad things. Do people really expect that there won't be lingering hostility about it?
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Healing these rifts will take many more years. Add to that the fact that walking/driving while black is much more likely to invite police surveillance/interaction than for other races, it's definitely going to take a long time for black people to relax and think rationally.
Wright loves the spotlight, I disliked the guy the instant I saw the video clips, bombastic and thundering while reading from a text -- contrived all to hell.
The only thing I can say in his support, he's done a fair amount of inspiring black people to lift themselves up by their bootstraps. I believe he is correct in pointing out that our supposedly Christian nation doesn't seem to get the old line 'as ye sow so shall ye reap' and that we are way too certain that God is in our corner at all times, no matter what.