Why did Hillary Clinton attack Jeremiah Wright?

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62. I am constantly amazed at the ability of oppressed peoples

to be kind to their oppressors. Yet so many are, to their credit. I am always impressed at the ability of people of color, Jewish people, and LGBTs to respond with humor and equanimity when discussing those who abuse them. So it doesn't surprise me when some, like Wright, cannot.

The treatment of AAs in this country has been horrible. And it is still going on. It is inhuman. It is a terrible stain on this nation. However, I am sorry that Wright feel into the same moral failing if he did, indeed, blame the Jews.

Wright was the Obama family pastor for about 20 years and baptized Malia and Sasha. It must have been hard for Obama to let him go. The Repubs were playing video excerpts of the worst of Wright -- only a few minutes of blowing his stack -- over and over on youtube. Obama had to disassociate himself from Wright. I understand why he did and I also understand why Wright would be angry. Politics is a tough, hard vocation.

Wright was terribly hurt by racial injustice against himself and his people and it affected him. He makes me think of this poem:

Harlem
By Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?