A Different Perspective
Mike Huckabee has seen his fair share of controversy, so has Jeremiah Wright. Both were pastors, but that’s about where the similarities end. With Wright’s renewed media attention and controversy I thought it would be fun to dig up this quote and throw it out there for consideration.
“As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, “That’s a terrible statement,” I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I’m going to be probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you: We’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, “You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus.” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had … more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.”
- Mike Huckabee, his perspective on the preaching of Jeremiah Wright. ( Source: MSNBC, cited by Sojomail 3/27/08 )
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