It's amazing how images can be used to reinforce a subliminal (or explicit) message. This is three-part image of Jeremiah Wright from this NY Times story. I wonder what message is been sent here.BTW Wright's Press Club spectacle and Obama's denouncement seem to have (i) given people permission to dismiss any valid thing Wright had to say (ii)allowed extremists on the right to ridicule any expression of grievance by the African-American community. You only need to spend an hour on conservative talk radio to find this out. In that sense, JW was completely lacking in perspective on the opportunity inherent in this historic moment to better weave the African American experience into the national narrative.
He also had no idea how many people were working to defend his legacy and how he made a fool of us and his parishioner for having extended him the respect due an elder.
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