I’m coming to think that the reason that the Jeremiah Wright issue has legs is not only, as I wrote earlier, that it keeps being resuscitated by both the left and the right. It’s also because, as Dave Neiwert writes, it raises deeply uncomfortable issues of self-knowledge among Americans that some would prefer not to hear:
But it’s also apparent that the larger context in which Wright condemns American behavior — the reason he shouts “God damn America” — in fact reflects hard historical realities that Americans, and the American media especially, really don’t want to talk about, let alone confront the present-day consequences thereof.
And doing so, evidently, is now proof of being “anti-American.”
Whatever the effect on the Obama campaign, regardless of the amount of self-serving Wright is doing, and however difficult it is to hear the questions Wright raises, they lead to a discussion that we must have.
NB: Rogue Columnist says what I tried to say except better.
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