Again, I am not siding with the argument: I believe for the most part that the Reverend Wright issue is, well, a NON issue. However, remarks made by Wright HAVE been inflammatory (the ones in bold are ones that I personally have a problem with):
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- September 2001: “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
- September 2001: “We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.”
- September 2001: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost.”
- April 2003: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America. No! No No! God damn America … for killing innocent people. God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans. God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme.” (I disagree with the "Government is out to get the black man" mentality. It is racist to make such accusations. KB)
- December 2007: “Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich, white people. Hillary would never know that.” (Racist - KB)
- December 2007: “Hillary ain’t never been called a [n!gger]. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
- Jan. 13, 2008: “Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.” (Presumably by "us" he again refers to "the black man" and this is once again, racist - KB)
- “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. (Of little statistical relevance - KB) … Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.”
- “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. … We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. … We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means.
- And … And … And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this [sh!t]!”
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