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Black pastors speak out on Wright's statements

The Rev. Sedgwick Easley of the Union Baptist Church in Hempstead was sitting in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday when the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. spoke and generated worldwide headlines.

From Easley's perspective, Barack Obama's longtime pastor was generally right on target, and the storm of criticism aimed at him is an attack on the black church in general as Wright...

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