Jeremiah Wright
Jeremiah Wright
Jeremiah Alvesta Wright junioris a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, with a congregation exceeding 6,000. In early 2008, Wright retired after 36 years as the Senior Pastor and no longer has daily responsibilities at the church. Following retirement, Wright's beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons were publicized in connection with the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Obama addressed the issues raised by the Wright controversy in his speech entitled "A More...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth22 September 1941
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.
I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.
It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.
Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.
Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.
Price above Principle makes you a Prostitute.
White folks' greed runs a world in need.
Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.
(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!
Barack Obama says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds.
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.