Doug Henwood wrote:
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> "It's not like people should be surprised that they peer into a
> church on the South Side of Chicago and the minister there who has
> the obligation to uplift his people would be speaking in such a way,"
> he said.
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> Last week, Best assigned his students a 1852 speech by Frederick
> Douglass on the meaning of July 4 for African-Americans.
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> "I had my students read that and imagine that Jeremiah Wright could
> be saying the same things," Best said. " 'There is not a nation on
> earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the
> people in the United States.' Put that on YouTube and spin it around."
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On July 4, 1970 I was reading this speech in a local park and I got mobbed and pushed off the podium. (It was a public location but the bandstand had been reserved for semi-private use by a local liberal group for its own use.)
Carrol