Lionel Chetwynd

An Open Letter to Senator Obama

Monday, March 24th, 2008 - by Lionel Chetwynd

Filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd thinks Barack Obama got it backwards in his March 18th speech on race, when the presidential candidate urged us to take the extreme statements of Reverend Wright in “context.” Writes Chetwynd: “That is the teaching opportunity I hoped you would evoke: not explaining Wright’s outrage to me, but explaining his outrageousness to him.”

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