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Originally Posted by Vulcan
That's funny I listened to two of Wright's speeches and I can't remember anything that he said was racist. There were some angry thoughts and accusations but most of them were true and some of his conclusions were rather paranoid but growing up in a racist society, it's hard not to cut him some slack. What you see in race relations now is a far cry from the 60s when Wright and others were fighting for equality. I respect the man and his roots, it's mostly that he used very bad timing to spout off.
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If nothing he said was racist, why did Obama distance himself from Wright and his church?