Barack Obama and the Reverend Wright
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Here is my take on Barack Obama and the Reverend Wright: most people and especially Obama partisans, have missed the point.
Here is my take on Barack Obama and the Reverend Wright: most people and especially Obama partisans, have missed the point.
It seems we are about to embark on a long overdue “dialog on race”…
I believe that, fundamentally, we don’t want to talk about it. Some of us like to rant about it, for sure, but if the rest of us actually talked about it calmly and rationally we would steal their spotlight. And really, it would be uncomfortable. Americans really aren’t used to being uncomfortable. We will go to any lengths — even selling our own liberty — to avoid it.
Here we are in the thick of the election season and, as always happens during such times, we hear endless declarations from the candidates about the various problems that they will fix for us if we will only vote for them, and endless discussion from activists and advocates and self-declared victims and would-be policy-makers about […]