The problem with Rev. Wright is that he didn't tell the whole story

[journalist3072]

I just made this point in another thread, but I think it's worth stating again in my own thread.

The problem I have with Rev. Wright is that he didn't tell the whole story.

I was thinking earlier today about how thankfully, I, as an African-American, never had to endure going to water fountains or restrooms that said Colored Only. I've never been forced to the back of a bus or had tear gas poured on me.

The fact that I've never had those experiences is not because of anything I've did. It's because I had brave ancestors who paved the way for me, so that I might enjoy a better life than they did.

But for the people of my parents and grandparents generation who did have those experiences, I think there is still a lot of pain. And I think Rev. Wright is an example of someone who still carries that pain.

However, his comments, specifically the one he made from the pulpit about "Hillary's never been called a (racial expletive)" trouble me becaue they don't tell the whole story.

Does she know what it's like to be an African-American? Of course not.

But Hillary Rodham Clinton certainly knows what it is like to have your government make judgements on you based NOT on the quality of your character or how hard you've worked...but to make judgements on you based solely on your outside appearance.

When she was a young girl, Hillary Rodham wanted to become an astronaut. And she wrote to NASA to ask them what she needed to do to prepare to become an astronaut; what type of classes, etc. she would need. NASA replied and told her they weren't interested in female astronauts, so she need not apply.

So, don't tell me she doesn't know what it's like to have your country devalue you based on how you look.

Even more still, he didn't tell the story of how Hillary Rodham had a youth minister who taught her (and the other youth in the church) that there was a whole other world out there than the one they had been exposed to.

Hillary Rodham's youth minister, Rev. Don Jones, took her and other youth to hear Rev. Martin Luther King speak, and she got to shake his hand.

And as author Judith Warner states so eloquently in her book "Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story"--

"A great deal happened in the world during the last six months of her senior year in high school. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had the led march on Selma, Alabama. For the first time northerners had seen fire hoses and police dogs raining hate on African Americans down South. Hillary Rodham, who only two years before had shook Dr. King's hand, saw white policeman in storm trooper boots using cattle prods on peaceful black and white demonstrators, saw federal troops called in to keep the peace. Such images did not fail to make a mark on her."