Readers write on the Obama speech:
Your point that Ewart Brown (and many in the PLP leadership) are the antithesis of Obama is lost on many in Bermuda that admire both Obama and Brown. Many would consider Brown to be our Obama when, in fact, in the context of the speech, Brown is a spitting image of Reverend Wright.Bermuda would benefit greatly to understand Obama's lesson. We ought to condemn angry racial rhetoric but not the person who utters it. This is possible only if we understand the origin of the anger and work to deal with it productively.
And another:
It seems to me that Obama is saying "I recognise that some of Jeremiah Wright's public stances are wrong and damaging but nevertheless I feel he is also a force of significant good in my community and to me." In other words, he's human. This is a point that the Bermuda revisionists will not concede about Bermuda's past leaders, and will always be a sticking point for the Big Conversation.Posted by Christian S. Dunleavy