“God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human” is a quote from one of the recent controversial comments of Barack Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Not one of the lines that receive the most attention from the media, but for me personally the quote that struck me the hardest. And maybe the reverend is…right. I guess my ignorance to this point hadn’t allowed me to properly see the truths that he exposes in the weekly lectures to his congregation.

He's right. "God damn America for treating [us] as less than human.
God damn this country for giving us the opportunity to be able to build ourselves and our lives to whatever we want them to be. Damn a nation that allows us to speak openly, allowing people like Reverend Wright to speak freely of their feeling towards the state with only the consequence of looking completely ridiculous in the public’s eyes. God damn a county where a situation like this takes place and no talk of criminal punishment is brought up because he is openly allowed to voice his opinion and those who decide to listen to this are free to also, as well as profess their faith and assemble as a congregation in the way that they feel is fit. How dare a country give someone like Barack Obama, a child of Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, the ability to run for the highest office in the land. And to think, I thought that Mr. Wright was the one who failed to recognize these truths. Thank you for sparking these insights Mr. Wright. And to think all this time I’ve been treated “as less than human”. I can not even begin to imagine what being treated like a human must feel like. I can only hope that Mr. Wright will be able to enlighten me once again and try and describe it to me.