Was the Rev. Wright right, or wrong?
March 17th, 2008 at 11:04pm Chuck Sweeny
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s fiery sermons escaped notice of the mainstream press, even though the retired pastor of Chicago’s Trinity Church of Christ, Barack Obama’s home church for 20 years, features prominently in Obama’s books.
Wright’s words are interpreted differently depending on which side of American history you’re on. Whites created the country for their benefit — blacks were denied citizenship and counted as three-fifths of a man for census purposes. Naturally, any retelling of the national tale has a different slant if the teller is descended from people who were not considered fully human by the vaunted Founders.
I don’t buy everything Wright says — I don’t think the U.S. government created the AIDS virus, and I think the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary and saved upwards of a million American lives — but I understand his basic themes.
I liked this article from The Guardian about Wright and his effect on Obama’s campaign. I’d like to know what you think of it.
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1. Mike Fortner | March 19th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Obama can \" distance \" himself all he wants. He has belonged to that church for a long time. he had plenty of chances to attend more moderate churches of color. he didn\’t. Now when he stands on the cusp of being the democratic nominee for president- he : denounces \" what he has sat and listened to for twenty years? I ain\’t buying it. Of course he disagrees with what the good reverend says- Now he is courting millions of white voters. Why did he not get up and leave sometime in the past twenty years? I think you know why.
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