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Anyway–Eugene Robinson thinks Rev. Wright’s ego is running away with him, and that his attempt to represent the black church is presumptuous. Pam Spaulding called his “playing the dozens” at the NPC “a public unraveling of the id.” Bob Herbert called it “a narcissist’s dream.”
That’s all strategy, though; you have to look far and wide to find anyone addressing Rev. Wright’s infamous sermons and speeches on their merits. For that, you can look to James Forbes Jr. (Senior Minister Emeritus at New York’s Riverside Church) and Gustav Niebuhr (grand-nephew of Reinhold). They’re good correctives to, say, Neil Steinberg, who totally misrepresents Rev. Wright’s “chickens coming home to roost” comments–Wright never said that 9/11 was divine retribution. You can listen to it here; Wright was talking geopolitics, as inspired by a former ambassador.
