LTE* of the day, from Charles E. Turner of Greensboro:
Some white Americans should learn to deal with the truth when it’s spoken, regardless the speaker. Seven years ago, when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke of America bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he spoke truthfully. When he spoke of America fomenting rather than stifling state-sponsored terrorism against South Africans, his words remained true.
Under this misguided regime, Bush’s occupation of Afghanistan and indignation toward many countries internationally could be impetus for terrorist attacks against the United States.
And at home America cyclically treat its impoverished as an underclass, allowing a steady flow of drugs into our poorest communities while steadfastly building more prisons to warehouse those caught in the predatory web.The black church is one of the rare locales where we can express ourselves without fear of reprisal. Wright’s damning of America was directed at administrations whose sole concern is for the wealthy. His inflammatory rhetoric results from centuries of reprehensible abuse. Those sentiments are better understood when viewed as a volcano that ultimately erupts. They have been sealed under the pressure of years of pain.
*Like the year Time chose Hitler as its Man of the Year, this LTE of the day was chosen for its controversial point of view, not because I endorse it.
