It really is all about fear and the truth isn’t it? Whites really are afraid of blacks, as well they should be. Mistreating and abusing someone for a long time does not really breed love. And although few want to admit it, Jeremiah Wright is expressing the truth more often than not.
Whenever I think of Wrightgate I see images of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Charles Krauthammer, Ann Coulter, David Brooks, etc. They are all cowering in a corner and a person who is a morph of Jeremiah Wright and Jack Nicholson is bellowing at them: “You can’t handle the truth!!!” And they cower even more.
Jon Stewart does the scared whitey bit pretty well here:
Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
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I think a lot of us are still reeling from the devastation, leading us to
us to tend to be rigid instead of being able to perceive nuance. I have
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