I’m at the National Press Club, where the Rev. Wright is having breakfast with about 27 tables of 11 and, oh, 200 journalists. You do the math. Breakfast guests are overwhelmingly African-American and the media are overwhelmingly not. Some of the reserved tables include the Wright family, SPOC Trustees, Howard University, a Baptist Church or two. I can’t see the head table because so many are trying to get pictures, though I just spotted Clarence Page seated a couple of chairs down to Wright’s right. Hmmmm.
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