‘Barack, I Didn’t Do It for This’: An Homage to Andrew Goodman
“The instant I heard Wright say “God Damn America,” I was repulsed. Viscerally. There is no set of circumstances I can imagine that would make me speak in those terms, because I love this country to the core and I can divorce her faults from her essence, which I take to be good and decent and just.”
Even if you saw your community ravaged by a policy which unjustly targeted them? Because that’s the context in which Wright said the phrase that repulsed you so – he was refering to the War on Drugs which has succeeded only in incarcerating more and more black males and increasing violence in the most impoverished and defenseless communities. Looking at the reality of the drug war the only thing I would add to Reverand Wright’s God DAMN America is AMEN!
