From Ed in NY:

I'm a decade older than Reverend Wright, a theatre director who had the good luck to bring the "Great White Hope" to Broadway in 1968 in the midst of the turmoil of the Black Power movement. We witnessed the incredible force for good that bringing the truth of Jack Johnson's demise at the hands of racist America brought to our theatre audiences. It was a time never to be forgotten and it inched our country forward toward a clearer understanding of its history. So, today, Barack Obama, taking the risk that only a brave and clear-headed man could take, put himself squarely in the center of our racial controversy and spoke the truth. The "talking heads" will make whatever hash out of it that their sponsors require. But the irrefutable truth is that he is taller, wiser more intellectually and spiritually ready to lead this nation out of moral despair and economic darkness than any leader in modern history. Grant that he may have the power to continue and the enlightened support necessary to become the next president of our country.