What do the following lines from the text reveal mainly about Reverend Jeremiah Wright (paragraph 33)?
But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations – those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.
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A. Reverend Wright’s controversial rhetoric is unique in the African-American community.
B. Reverend Wright preaches one thing, but believes another.
C. Reverend Wright’s perspective was informed by the historical treatment of blacks in America.
D. Reverend Wright was defeated by discrimination.
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