He didn't "think" he was a second class citizen..he was a second class citizen.
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The "God Damn America" thing was over the Iraq war. Which..by all accounts was an atrocity and a war crime. Over 100,000 innocent people were slaughtered for nothing. Nadda. Bupkis.
I guess a "Man of God" would be appalled over that. Especially after the country that he served treated him like dog shit for a good part of his life.
Ummm, he's a "second class citizen" who lives in a Mansion in a gated community in Tinley Park.
he's living large.
The dumb sheep he sheers every week are still living in slums.
Are you saying he was never subjected to racism?
I'm saying I could care less if he was or not. We are all subject to some kind of "ism" at some time in our lives. Agism, sexism, racism, whatever.
Most people realize there are folks who won't like you for whatever stupid reason they won't like you and them move on with their lives.
And some people find ways to milk that resentment into a fancy mansion in Tinley Park.
I mean, the White Folks couldn't have been that mean to him if he built a mansion in their gated community.
Those gates aren't to keep the Klan out, but the Chicago Street punks who live not far away on the South Side.