Article: We may no longer avoid the race issue, so let's talk.(Perspective)(Column)

A disclaimer is not necessarily the best way to begin a conversation, but sometimes I am compelled to offer one as a means of foreshadowing the discussion of a difficult subject. One would have had to be out of touch with all of civilization to have missed at least one showing of a clip of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's animated sermon from the pulpit of Barack Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. There is no condoning this eardrum-assaulting language used from the pulpit. That is not the purpose here, nor is it the goal, to heap any more condemnation on Reverend Wright for making these unfortunate remarks. Rather it is hoped that we may take a moment to ...

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