April 7, 2008

Notes on the Reverend Wright fiasco after reading “Black Like Me”

On the recommendation of a good friend of mine, I recently read John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me. It is a moving and deeply revealing journal of Griffin’s experiences as he chemically alters his skin tone to explore the Deep South from a black man’s perspective.
As I read it, incendiary videos of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, [...]