Rev. Jeremiah Wright on PR Tour to Fight “Public Crucifixion” [MSNBC Update]
By SusanUnPC on April 27, 2008 at 11:26 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Otis Moss
Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke of his “public crucifixion” to a packed and supportive church in Dallas Sunday morning, and then spoke before the NAACP Detroit chapter Sunday night. Monday morning, Rev. Wright will speak and take reporters’ questions at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. — to be aired live on C-Span at 9:00 a.m. EST.
“Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP, said at a news conference before the dinner that he was excited to invite the ‘hottest brother in America right now‘.”
Time’s Mark Halperin notes that Rev. Wright cut to the “controversy early in speech: “I’m not here for political reasons. I’m not a politician. Many of corporate owned media have made it seem that I’m running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus for a long, long time.” PART ONE of his speech (PARTS TWO, THREE and FOUR are below the fold — CNN chose to run the full speech to counter charges that the media have played his speeches out of context):
Wright received a standing ovation from the crowd of 12,000 people at the Detroit NAACP event. UPDATE: Below is Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC report on Obama’s statements today re Rev. Wright and GOP presumptive nominee John McCain’s response, as well as parts two, three and four of Rev. Wright’s speech:
PART TWO of Rev. Wright’s NAACP speech:
PART THREE of Rev. Wright’s speech:
PART FOUR of Rev. Wright’s speech, with closing remarks by the CNN anchor:
Thanks to HipHopMusc.com for providing all four segments of Rev. Wright’s speech, and to Toddy4 for providing me with the link.
This is the MSNBC video of Andrea Mitchell commenting on the political impact:
From the MSNBC story:
“I’m not here for political reasons,” Wright said. “I’m not a politician. I know that fact will surprise many of you because many in the corporate-owned media made it seem like I am running for the Oval Office. I am not running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus a long, long time, and I’m not tired yet.”
[…]
Wright received a long, loud standing ovation.
He became an issue in the presidential race in March after the circulation of videos of old sermons in which he accused the U.S. government of racism and accused it of flooding black neighborhoods with drugs.
In a sermon days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Wright said that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” after it dropped atomic bombs on Japan and that the United States “supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans.”
The ‘hottest brother in America’
The videos, circulated widely on television and the Internet, knocked Obama’s presidential campaign off stride. The Illinois senator distanced himself from the comments of Wright, whom he has known for 20 years.The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP, said at a news conference before the dinner that he was excited to invite the “hottest brother in America right now.” …
From the Detroit Free Press’s story, “Wright tells NAACP audience: ‘A change is going to come’“:
His first order of business was to sing the praises of the NAACP for its civil rights work over nearly a century. Much of that work, he said, was done in cooperation with the nation’s black churches — so much so that they were “seemingly joined at the hip” in their battles against racial injustice, he said.
[…]
Wright moved quickly to address the controversy surrounding him.
Some say that “just my appearance in Detroit will be polarizing,” he said. “I’m not here for political reasons. I’m not a politician. Many of corporate owned media have made it seem that I’m running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus for a long, long time.
“I’m sorry your local political analysts are saying that I’m polarizing and my sermons are divisive. I’m not here to address an analyst’s opinion. I stand here as one representative of African-American church tradition, believing that a change is going to come.”
Wright, who is retiring as pastor of the 6,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, followed the dinner’s theme of “A Change is Gonna Come,” giving a humorous mini-lecture about the difference in style and linguistics between African Americans and whites.
“A change is coming because we no longer see others as being deficient,” he said.
The crowd cheered when he acted out the differences between white marching bands and black ones.
“One is not abnormal and one normal — it’s just different,” he said, explaining the difference between black and white church traditions.
“I come from a tradition, where we give God the glory, and we give the devil the blues,” he said.
Amid the humor, however, he took a moment to respond to Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who called Wright “divisive” during an April 18 forum attended by the leaders of Detroit and Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties. He referred to Patterson only by his title, not by name.
“I am not one of the most divisive,” Wright said. “Tell him the word is descriptive.”
Anyone who stands in a church pulpit and simulates the sex act while mocking a U.S. President is a person I do not want to be standing near during a lightning storm.
Amen, so speak.
Good Post. I thought it strange that it is described that in the second sermon at the Dallas Church he spoke out against the abuse of women and had women stream forward for a blessing if they had been victims of abuse…..What a total and cynical CAD this man is….Descriptive my ass…His theology and his sermons are divisive and steeped in the traditions of BLACK SEPARATSIM. He claims not to be a politician but his pulpit is used for nothing else.Preachers who are political can have positive effects like MLK. or they can have negative effects like Wright and Farrakhan. I personally like the separation of church and state and believe that the TAX EXEMPT STATUS should be eliminated and the churches sanctioned if the pulpit becomes political…NO MATTER THE DENOMINATION.
You’re absolutely right about one of the MAJOR tenets of our democracy: Separation of Church and State. Tax-exempt status should be stripped from churches who abuse it.
And Christian pastors should respect that tenet, esp. since Jesus said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God, etc… But, looks like Wright cut to the chase and rendered himself to BE Caesar.
Maybe he thought he could fool the IRS …
He did that again tonight, talking about the first black woman to sleep “legally” in the White House…. whatever the heck that means. Ugh.
It’s coarse and vulgar. And he clearly is preoccupied with sex.
How come my childhood Presbyterian minister never talked like that?!
Because there are those who consider all Things Sacred when they dedicate thier Life to Gods Service..
Then there are those who Sacreligious because they are “DOUBLE MINDED”….
Every time this man opens his mouth he takes the name of the Lord Thy God in vain.
I was taught that the first place the devil looks is in church to do his evil.
I have never seen such hatred and evil spawned during a campaign to lead this country.
If Obama gets in we better pray very hard for this country. We will need all the prayer we can get.
Yes, his words are coarse and vulgar. So, tell me, does he pray to Jesus with that mouth?!!
Cindy…..Wright prays to a Jesus of his own invention….Wrights’ Jesus is black, militant, and was oppressed and murdered by CRACKERS who were ITALIANS and JEWS. Liberation Theology promotes the idea that the individual congregation can invent the theology and it subverts the doctrinal authority of any denomination. This is why Wright preaches in a non-denominational church….Not even the Baptists would have him…..He’s as much out there as those deluded fundamentalist Mormons who have been soundly rebuked by their own church because they refuse to recognize denominational authority……His is a fringe Black Separatist Church like Farrakhans which has also been rebuked by mainstream Islamic scholars for it’s racial suprematism and distortions of the Koran…..
Workingclass, you define his beliefs excellently.
He is joyfully keeping his own people down and oppressed faster and better than any white supremacist could ever dream of. That’s the most heinous part of it all.
Well thanks….Philosophy and theology are old addictions of mine and I can only blame that incredible former Jesuit professor from college….
Wright managed to find himself a whole new bunch to insult and that would be the Irish. His supporters are all ready saying that what he meant to do was take a swing at Bill O’Reilly.
Wright said O’sumpin, O’Shaughnassy, O’Reilly I can’t remember exactly because to tell you the truth I dislike the man so much it’s hard for me to listen to what he has to say. Once someone God Damns America and humps the pulpit to insult Bill Clinton I have a hard time paying attention to anything else they say.
Now he’s brought together the O’Reillys, the O’Haras, the O’Briens, the O’Mallys, the Kellys, the Cavanaughs, oh hell you get the idea. Uniting the I(talians) and the I(rish) against any one candidate is boneheaded beyond belief.
But Reverend Wright, Bless his heart just keeps those hits a-comin.
I think any group other than AA knows he is pretty much down on them … he just can’t help making fun of them. I shake my head wondering how the hell Barack found any of this even somewhat “religious.” These “routines” are not new. I am pretty sure that Michelle loved it some, though. She is one of the most bitter people I have ever seen for her age and privilege.
Ehemmmm……The Good Pastor Wright has managed to unite many races/ethnic groups under his hate umbrella because anyone who is not AA like himself is a designated CRACKER.
Hispanics, Jews, Gays, Women, Italians, Orientals, Europeans,…..The list just keeps growin….
Who knew we CRACKERS had such variety…..Hmmmmmmm….
And what about Barack’s white mother? Nothing is ever said in the black community that Barack isn’t the first African American candidate … he’s the Benneton candidate.
I find it IRONIC that the first AA POTUS candidate was actually a woman at I think the end of the 19th c. Cannot remember her name but I would say that she had more courage in her pinky than a man like Wright or BABY-O could ever summon up in a dream….
Shirley Chisholm. I totally forgot!
Yeah …. before that wonderful campaign slogan of “bros b4 whos”
……OH THE IRONY…..
I try to point this out at every turn but the AA community selectively ignores it.
Mass psychosis. Whatever they put in the water, I must have an immunity to it.
Mimi…( sigh ) the intelligentsia is often the first to be ignored or silenced….When I say intelligentsia I do not mean many of our current beknighted liberal pundits.
Do I really have to listen to the whole thing?? Can sombody direct me to where in these videos he said this???
I had to stop listening after he went off on the learning styles. ( guess my Irish/Scottish/German/Jewish/Catholic parents forgot to tell me something- I actually know about 6,000 pieces of music, by heart and still to this day can sing a piece of music accurately after hearing it once! I do not read music at all!)
Ehemmmm…….Melissa how are your dancin skills…chuckle…
I don’t hate Wright. I think it is unfortunate that because of Obama he is being dragged into the national spotlight. I don’t agree with his sermons and I think there is something very wrong with some black churches and black organizations who believe that spewing hatred from the pulpit is okay. I don’t blame Wright to want to somehow set the record straight. I think anyone in his position would want to do the same. I blame Obama more than anyone else in this story. He used Wright just as he has used so many other people who have helped him become a national politician.
That said, I think it is unfortunate that the NAACP invited Wright to speak. As I said above, I do not hate Wright. He is a troubled man who needs help and I hope he has learned a few lessons from all of this. But by inviting him, the NAACP has just given the message that what Wright says about America, 9/11, Israel, Natalee Holloway, and the Clintons is acceptable. It is not. I need to watch his speech but unless he was there to apologize for his words, I don’t think he should have been there. Wright needs to apologize to the American people, to the Holloway family, and to the Clintons. The only way Wright can truly redeem himself is to publicly acknowledge the error of his ways.
Well put!
There’s you next video.
It’s the spewing of this day in and day out and the loving preservation of it on tape that gets to me. Every now and again, I don’t doubt that your average black person has to blow off steam. I’ve gotten pissed enough at men (especially during this election) that I can totally understand a black person wanting to go, “Look, just FUCK WHITE PEOPLE OKAY?!” every now and then.
But you know what? You blow off the steam, and then you get around to trying to make your anger constructive. You do NOT sit people down week in and week out and rant at them, where little kids can hear you. That starts to sound like an indoctrination cell. And it doesn’t do anybody any good — what can an intelligent, gifted, ambitious little black kid who sits in those pews day in day out think but, “Why even bother?” Is that what you want your kids to have as a takeaway from what should be a supportive atmosphere?
There’s also the fact that it ends up as a self-fulfilling thing. So Michelle Obama said that America was mean and nasty — funny how all the meanest and nastiest people seem to be on that side of the fence, isn’t it? People live up — or down — to your expectations a lot. Call them vicious and that’s exactly what they’ll be.
So very well put. Your analogy to the way women feel is excellent!
One of the things women have to be careful is letting ongoing misogyny make them irrevocably bitter. Sure, there are a lot of men who make you want to holler about their attitudes, but you move on and seek out those who are not this way, you don’t wallow in it.
I’ve done this racially as well. Imus’s remarks, not getting a promotion I should have, at some point you have to get pro-active and constructive about what you cannot control. All people like Rev Wright do is feed into blacks sense of victimization. They stoke their anger, resentment and bitterness which keeps them in business and their coffers full. Living well is the best revenge. Building strong AA communities through the unified efforts of blacks should be the goal.
And I still say, how is anyone going to legislate or force individuals to change what’s in their heart? Ain’t gonna happen! Why? It simply can’t be done. The transformation of one’s consciousness is an individual thing.
The only reason Wright is doing this PR tour is for Obama. Period. He is not doing it to clear his name. He doesn’t need to improve his own standing, he’s “retired” and settling into that 1.9 million dollar mansion behind those gates, next to the golf course. The PR firm that Axelrod retained (Pro Bono) is doing this to clean up Wright for Obama’s benefit. Nothing more.
I don’t “hate” Wright. I despise any person that uses religion to become filthy rich, while people he supposedly speaks for are freezing to death, shooting each other, and starving. I have no use for religious charlatans…
See, there’s the thing. The hypocrisy has an odor that should offend the nostrils of anyone who comes into contact with it. The overwhelming mantra of Obama, Wright and (listening to Mimi), African Americans who are successful and put as much distance between themselves and the community to which they appeal and upon which they rely for support is “I’ve got mine.”
Did anyone else feel like Andrea Mitchell looked like she was at a funeral?
If Wright is indeed doing this for Obama and not just to massage his own ego I believe it is a monumental error.
He may prop up some support in the AA community but he will send most others running for the exit.
He can make nice all he wants to now but so long as the clips of him humping the pulpit and saying God Damn America exist, anything else is just lipstick. And will do Obama no good except for rabid Obama supporters that are unable to see anything wrong in their candidate. EVER! Eveb sitting in this man’s church and listening to him spew his venom for 20 years.
How much do you improve on 90 percent?
That isn’t the consituency that Barack needs to make inroads with.
Listening to OdonnaObama on George’s show, he made a 7 percent pick up of white voters in Pennsylvania … for all that money he spent …
And they increased the expectations on George’s show as well, calling Indiana “home court” advantage.
Matthew Dowd has a lot more in common with Maureen than one might imagine. I was screaming at my computer rewatching the program when he said that Barack needs to get back to “hope and change” and away from the negatives … I was thinking that hope and change get him away from things like policy and programs where he really really SUCKS and Hillary excells …
I heard that too, and it’s hardly the first time a pundit has suggested Obama “go back to Hope and Change because that was working for him,” as if Obama hasn’t been negative the entire primary season.
Meanwhile Hillary is constantly snarked at for being a serious campaigner addressing the actual issues. She needs to be “warmer” and “more fun.”
How about this- Obama actually addresses some specifics for a change. Any chance of that at all?
Hmmmm……Maybe the underlying HOPE & CHANGE message is…..Can we do somthing about all these CRACKERS…..They seem to pop up everywhere….
If crackers keep “popping” up does that make us Poptart crackers? At my age the idea of being a Poptart is kinda fun. And that would be an Irish/French Canadian/Oglala Sioux/Dane Poptart if you don’t mind.
Has Reverend Wright, bless his heart, insulted the Danes, the French Canadians or the Oglala Sioux yet? If not I’m sure he’ll get around to it sooner or later cause this man seems incapable of keeping his yap shut. And no matter how hard Obamans spin, this is not good news for the Obama campaign.
Mimicking JFK’s accent might not have been the brightest move either IMHO.
In pastor Wrights’ world if you aint African American you are lumped in with the OPPRESSOR…..
You are part of the Imperialist Cracker Nation…..
I’m a part of the Imperialist Cracker Nation? Are those the Elves that live in a really big tree? Cause to tell you the truth I don’t think I’m up to climbing trees anymore. Even to be an Imperial Cracker. And can I still belong if I haven’t ever oppressed anyone and have no desire to do it now?
Hmmmmm…….I don’t know….I think I might have to check on height requirements…..I might be left out in the cold….A wandering refugee….LOL
“The only reason Wright is doing this PR tour is for Obama.”
That’s news to Obama. I seriously doubt this is anything he wanted to happen right now.
The NAACP has been in decline for a while both politically and finacially.
This was merely a way to expediantly kill the proverbial 2 birds with a single stone.
Wrights’ message of racial supremacy appeals to the oppressed in the ghetto….It’s Black Separatism…..It is FACISM.
Wright is a black David Duke and the NAACP had no business giving this SOB a national pulpit to spew his hate and race theories.
Crackpot race theories the GOP blogs are allover too.
If the Democrats had any brains they’d stop patronizing the NAACP because its clear those people aren’t much different than Wright.
The NAACP has a noble history….I think they have badly mis-calculated here….( sigh )
the damage had been done, we will never forget. You said you’re a pastor but you talk and act like a politician. you’re like obama, i don’t know you. keep changing your color, like obama. i can see so much of obama from you.
His comments were full of “cheerful” pseudoscience that may have sounded engaging upon first blush, but emphasized his very generalized perception of divisiveness between his simplistic notion of two races, European and African, leaving out large swathes of America.
Oh, that left brain, right brain crap. Preachers and science do NOT mix and should be kept FAR AWAY from one another.
Left brain learning is analytical which is book, reading, writing. The hands on and tactile learning is a right brained approach.
Different people learn differently. That is why some people prefer the read the manual before they hook up the new stereo. But some people will just dive into it. It’s the same way as left handed and right handed. It has nothing to do with race.
Wright was using another brush stroke to paint race in a certain way which is totally inaccurate.
Boy am I confused! I write and eat left handed, but hate math. I can sing any piece of music accurately after hearing it once, but can not read music other than using those squiggly dots to tell me up note or down. I love to read books and have amazing recall- (very handy for tests in my younger years) I am good at jigsaw puzzles and word search.
I do know when I hear bullshit- and Obama and Wright are full of tons of it!
Why has the NAACP associated itself with this man? He’s an absolute disgrace.
It’s called ticket sales. Fund raising 1.01.
Correct Bee….The NAACP has been in decline and long comes the cash cow travelling epic Barry and gyratin Uncle Jerry…..
Chastisin those evil crackers can generate new members and dues…..
Because they are like minded.
Larry can you get a video of the Reverend Anthony’s introduction of Wright?
You know, I don’t know whether to laugh or be furious that this guy keeps telling us this is Our Fault for taking his garbage-mouth remarks “out of context” It’s as if these statements would sound any less offensive if we listened to his entire raving speech.
The local public radio station in Dllas has recordings of his Dallas sermon.
90.1 KERA is the station and they were playing some of it on NPR this morning….That’s going to piss off the local pastor as he admonished the congregation to not talk to the press….Hmmm…Those pesky tiny japenese recording devices….
Good for them! Depending on the local reporter — there will be little and no spin!
The local Pastor described Uncle Jerry being LYNCHED by the press and the cogregation hooped and hollered…..
Very LOADED language anywhere in the US….especially down south…
Oh, but DON’T YOU use that word “boy,” or “monkey,” now! You just watch yourself, ya’ hear?
It’s all our fault. We and the media took “Bill did us (gyrating hips) like he did Monica Lewinsky” totally out of context!
Oh and we can add the Irish to the Garlic Noses on his list.
Well all I will say Wright has this crackers’ IRISH up….I find Wright and his theology deplorable…..Pure FACISM WRAPPED UP IN THE BABY JESUS….
“Pure FACISM WRAPPED UP IN THE BABY JESUS….”
My question is, what don’t you describe as “fascism”? When you have a bad day, is it a fascist day? When you get stuck in traffic, is it fascist traffic? When you eat a disappointing meal, was it a fascist meal?
You’re here so what’s your beef? Do you think that she needs to explain yourself to you?
Look, we all know that it is a tough day to be an Obama supporter. But please don’t take your anger out on the people here. If you can control yourself and stay on point, great. If you can debate the things said here in a cogent, logicaal fashion, great. But otherwise, take your petulence and leave until you are in a better frame of mind. We put up with enough trollshit here, see?
“I disagree with what you have to say but will fight to the death to protect your right to say it.” Unless and until you advocate violence. And then, you’re out of here, get it?
“Unless and until you advocate violence. And then, you’re out of here, get it?”
I don’t recall ever advocating violence. Setting up another straw man to throw rocks at?
No. One of your fellow trolls was here last week saying that violence against women is a non-issue. That is not an accepted point of view here. That is what I was referring to. What is it with you? How can someone who is so sensitive to facism be so fascinated with “straw?”
Get a life.
Please…..Any doctrine political or theological which promotes racial superiority and demonizes any ethnic/religous or socio/economic group cloaked in MORAL SUPERIORITY is FASCISM….
Crack a HISTORY BOOK…..You embarrass yourself…..Jeff
“Please…..Any doctrine political or theological which promotes racial superiority and demonizes any ethnic/religous or socio/economic group cloaked in MORAL SUPERIORITY is FASCISM….
Crack a HISTORY BOOK…..You embarrass yourself…..Jeff”
Fascism:
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fascism
Crack a dictionary…
Jeff…FASCISM. n. 1. A totalitarian governmental system led by a dictator and emphasizing agressive nationalism, militarism, and often RACISM. 2. The philosophy, principals or methods of FASCISM. Random House Dictionary.
Wrights’ philosophy hits about 3 out of 3…..It is what it is. And if you support it you are a supporter of FASCISM….Nuff said….
Wright and his race theories comes close to the Nazis and their race theories.
The fact that Obamabots don’t find any of it repulsive and condemn shows what a bunch of moral retards they are.
“Public crucifixion?” So what, he’s JESUS now? Get the hell over yourself, pal.
Well reverend Anthony introduced him that way. Yup. And also like the biblical Jeremiah.
Where I come from a common phrase for those steeped in self pity that might be appropriate….CLIMB DOWN OFF THE CROSS…WE NEED THE WOOD !
Yup, poor Reverend Wright was crucified by people repeating the words,or playing them, of what he said on tapes that his church sold. I am incapable of following that kind of illogical logic.
It’s like an aquaintance of mine who excuses everything her dunderheaded grandson does. It is never, ever his fault and nothing will convince her otherwise. No point arguing with people like that.
Anymore that there is any point in arguing with, or talking to an Obama supporter. Unless you like beating your head against a brick wall and then have at it. I have better things to do with my time. There’s garbage to take out, paint to watch dry and a Dr. Phil show to not ever watch. Busy, busy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/27/202034/397/901/504550
lol.
Eeeuuu uppity, you sent me to the icky orange place where the brain dead dwell. I’ll be back after I give my mind a bath.
So it is OK for Wright to claim he is being crucified (clearly a Biblical analogue) but when Carville calls Richardson Judas (another Biblical analogue) that’s a bad thing? Oh I forgot that double standards are OK for some people.
Well…..Ol’ Jimmy is a cracker you see….
Oh come on ….
Clinton rules …
Obama rules ….
Understood. I was just feeding the trolls.
Wright is probably most upset that the people he is insulting and condescending to actually got to hear what he was saying and then we had the gall to dare to be offended by his words.
they hoopin and hollerin in the audience after wright’s speech. this guy does not care for anybody but himself.
Why not? They were whooping and hollering when he said “God Damn America” too. They were whooping and hollering when he was humping the pulpit in a disgusting display of his rabid Clinton hate.
I haven’t gone to church in years and then only when there’s a family wedding or Baptism. But secular humanist that I am, I find such behavior, in a church, repulsive beyond my ability to articulate it. This is a man of hate, not a man of God. And Obama sat in his church for 20 years.
Rev Wrong just wanted to send a “screw you” messgae to white america. No apology, nothing.
Yeah well screw him too. Barack Obama will NEVER be president.
The GOP must be congratulating themselves for being handed a free cornucopia of quotes from Wright to be used in a slew of ads attacking Democratic candidates who endorsed Obama. Let the blood fest begin!
in my view, the dems who endorsed obama deserve it.
i hope they all lose their jobs. (of course, i would greatly prefer that they lose them to other dems). maybe if they all lose their jobs, they and other dems will learn an important lesson - you can’t just take out your clinton hatred or whatever on the rest of us. or we will tell you goodbye. then noone will care who you endorse.
Judas goes first. Kennedy & Kerry next.
and please let them take Clare ‘my kids made me do it and warrantless surveillance is really ok’ McCaskill with them
I hope that they understand what happens when you let “hope” and “change” trump vetting.
Oh my. I’m sure all is not well in Barry world tonight with this stuff hittin’ the airwaves. Mornin’ Joe will have a field day along with Pat Buchanan with Mika tut, tutting on the side!
After 7 1/2 years of being a second class citizen in bush’s America (not rich), I don’t want any more of that. I think that if Obama gets elected, I will have 4 more years of that status (not AA). And Wright is the reason why. (”USKKK of A” was a slip of the tongue?) Regardless of what Obama says, does anybody really believe that (”Uncle”)Wright isn’t his spiritual adviser?
I would be pleased to find that I am mistaken about this.