Where Wright May Be Right

on April 30th, 2008

Okay, so the AIDS thing is a little off the deep end (though I understand where the fear comes from), but I will say this: Rev. Jeremiah Wright is right about a lot of things.

Among them is that recent attacks on him are really attacks on the black church as an institution. That’s [...]

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Obama to Give Speech on Race, Wright.

on March 17th, 2008

Barack Obama and Reverend Wright.

Via Ben Smith:

Barack Obama will give a major speech on “the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he told reporters in Monaca, PA just now.

He was pressed there, as he has been at recent appearances, on statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

“I [...]

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