Muscatine

Then the mother father race point was not only un-needed to make those points, but uncalled for--- giving the commenter a sour apples feel.

Aside of the first statement made regarding the race issue, you are RIGHT.

Otherwise I'm forbid. I get too riled and tend to mess up supper. Blood pressure gets up there too.

All that chicken fat in my blood.

You have to be an idiot, these days, to believe the color of someone's skin drives their beliefs and behavior.  It's not the skin color.  It's the upbringing and the cultural indoctrination that matter.

It may be that, today, some skin colors are associated with certain cultural practices and levels of judgement, but it is not because of their skin color.  The skin color may tend to push people into associations with certain cultures, but it is more about where and to whom you are born than it is skin color.

You are born with a genetic program for skin color.   You are not born hating the U.S.  You have to be taught that.  Being taught that, was what this story was about.

And the statement about his father being a black Kenyan is relevant and important to the point of the article.   As demonstrated by a paragraph appearing later in that article.  Asking a pertinent and legitimate question:

"By the time he was 10, the boy had been abandoned three times – by his father, stepfather, and mother. And although he was raised by his white grandparents in Hawaii – where "people of color” were not his color – he found out soon enough that his mixed-race background rendered him, in effect, an outsider. Did that make him feel self-conscious, indignant, victimized?"

I believe the Reverend Wright took care of that "hate the US" outlook.