>>I watched the interviews with Reverend Wright (over the past couple of weeks) and I was dissappointed in what he had to say. I watched his entire sermon and I agree that some of the quotes publicized in the past were taken out of context, but in context they were still highly inflammatory and IMHO, very anti-american and racist.
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>Interesting. I didn't see much of the speeches over the weekend, but I did watch the full Moyers program on Friday night. My take was that much of what we've seen as soundbites was hyperbolic, typical of an exhortative preaching style. Wright came across in the interview as bright, sarcastic and committed.
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>The show also made it clear that the church is and has been doing a tremendous amount of good work in the community.
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>Also, for full disclosure, I've learned that I knew Wright's mother in my teens. She was the vice principal of my high school. She was well-regarded, and a tough cookie, but fair. (She was the disciplinarian, among other roles.)
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It was the Monday comments that set Obama off, the ones where Rev. Wright said AIDS was a government plot against blacks and expressed admiration for Louis Farrakhan.