Posted by Parker English '60 on 4/29/2008, 10:53 pm
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I wonder if this is an appropriate forum in which to discuss Rev. Wright's critical remarks about the image of America as blessed? It might seem relevant to one of the events during my senior year, when there was a previously announced fight between scores of Wilson and Norcum students at what was then Mid-City Shopping Center.
A pretty representative sample of reactions to Wright's remarks is at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/28/wright.reactions/
I hope most of us agree that Wright unfairly and unhelpfully ignores racial progress in the United States since World War II. Furthermore, it should be obvious that cursing those whom one criticizes isn't likely to be productive. Finally, it is "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" rather than an AIDS-conspiracy that Wright should have condemned. These misfires aside, do his ideas provide helpful opportunities to better cope with racial differences in our nation?
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