America Too Racist for a Black President? (DER SPIEGEL interview with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama's pastor)

SPIEGEL: Do you think he will be President in two years?

Wright: No. unless Barak pulls off nationally what he was able to pull off locally, and wins the hearts and minds of people who have been perennially anti-black. Racism is so deeply engrained in this country that he could be flawless in terms of his policies. But he's still a black man in this country, which has a sorry history in terms of how it sees African-American males. That's my 65-year-old, jaded perception of where this country is. I was pleasantly surprised in the Senate election. I would like to be as pleasantly surprised in the presidential election.

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