As promised, here are some responses to Obama's speech. Even those who continue to disagree with Obama's association with Wright concluded that the speech was one of the most important in the past 50 years. I think it's unfortunate that the controversy over Wright is interfering with people's ability to engage the real discussion about race Obama tried to begin: most of the t.v. news reports are so stuck on controversy that they can't move on to conversation.
Here are a few links to check out:
One historian offers a history of a tradition of sometimes inflammatory African American criticism of America through Christianity
The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson has the inside scoop
Jon Stewart's take and an attempt at dialogue with Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore
NY Times' Nicholas Kristoff: "What’s happening, I think, is that the Obama campaign has led many white Americans to listen in for the first time to some of the black conversation — and they are thunderstruck."
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