Never for a second did I believe Reverend Jeremiah Wright had to be pardoned, explained away, dissociated from, etc. by Barack or anyone. I understood without reading this kind of article both how effective he has proved himself to be as a spiritual leader and how a type of comfort he offers his congregation is to voice some "damn this place is fucked up"-type thoughts.
Because, it is. And everyone knows it. And if not everyone, a whoooole lotta people in the south side of Chicago know it, whether their preacher tells it to them or not.
Anyway, I just wanted to dedicate one post to this link: the full text of his 1990 sermon called "The Audacity to Hope."
This is the painting he's referring to, entitled "Hope" by George Frederick Watts.
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