Wright the Monolith

Q: What happens when you insert a huge ego into a preacher who thinks it's still the 1950's? A: You get Jeremiah Wright. Read today's insight on Wright by Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post Writers Group: I’m through with Wright not because he responded — in similar circumstances, I certainly couldn’t have kept silent — but because his response was so egocentric. We get it, Rev. Wright: You’re ready for your close-up....But his basic point — that any attack on him is an attack on the African-American church and its traditions — is just wrong. In making that argument, he buys into the fraudulent idea of a monolithic, monocultural black America — one with his philosophy and theology at its center. FULL COLUMN...