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Blacks who excel disprove notion America's racist

April 30, 2008 By MICHAEL MEYERS Michael Meyers, a former assistant national director of the NAACP, is executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition.

The unvarnished truth about Rev. Jeremiah Wright finally hit Sen. Barack Obama between the eyes. Reverend Wright is Reverend Wrong - the wrong man to be pastor to the candidate who is seeking to transcend racial divisions and to smash into smithereens the color barrier that has stymied equal opportunity in America.

Wright's talk before the National Press Club - a talk that shamed Obama and...

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