I would, as a white Southerner, amend Rev. Wright's words: "God has already damned America!" We saw and pretended we did not see. We heard and said nothing. We whites attended superior schools with textbooks while blacks in rural Alabama had only 3 months education a year, and that only to the 7th grade with no books. We ate the fruits of better education, of higher wages, of superior positions, and we were silent.
If God is just, S/He has already damned America!
Dallas A. Blanchard
United Methodist Minister (Retired)
Professor Emeritus, University of West Florida
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Pensacola, Florida 32514
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