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I don't think anyone is trying to suppress anything. I'm not an especially conservative guy -- "world weary" is more like it -- and I knew that some of the more outrageous parts of Wright's sort of claptrap are not that uncommon in certain quarters. I just was amazed that a sensible, sane, smart guy like Obama wouldn't understand how it would look to people who aren't exposed to that sort of thing. Or maybe he did, but had other more immediate objectives that had to take a back seat for a while, and he figured the future will take care of itself once he was on his way. And in fact he wasn't wrong. So maybe he really is as smart as I thought he was.
Why does this thing resonate? Probably because to many people it's shocking. Most people don't think they have racial issues, and this sort of thing comes as a rude awakening because it makes them think their goodwill isn't being reciprocated. They may be wrong, they may be right, but I suspect that is genuinely how they feel.
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