Posted on 09/27/2015 5:52:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What does the man who thundered, “God damn America!” have to say in the age of Black Lives Matter?
It didn’t seem like the proper setting for an angry, anti-American firebrand.
An amiable crowd was milling around the fellowship hall of the United Church of Chapel Hill on a Saturday morning, slurping coffee and eating bagels. Posters advertised trips to the Holocaust Museum, advocated for LGBT rights, and warned against ableism, with helpful definitions. The crowd skewed white and, as in many churches, older, but befitting this college town, it was an eclectic bunch: aging granola grandmas, middle-aged men in black jeans, and salt-and-pepper goatees, older men in suits.
What, exactly, was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright—former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, erstwhile minister to Barack Obama, and the man who infamously thundered, “God damn America!” doing here?
Lecturing on racial reconciliation, as it turns out—at least that was the idea. For nearly three hours, that’s mostly what Wright did. In the last 10 minutes, he couldn’t quite hold himself back, and the firebrand emerged. (Perhaps it’s no coincidence that his biblical namesake was known for angry harangues about injustice in society.) What does Wright think about the refugee crisis in Europe and anti-immigration rhetoric in the United States?
“I heard Donald Trump say if you’re here illegally you need to go back. Let’s start in the 1400s!” he said, then quickly moved to discussing the “the illegal state of Israel.” On the plight of Palestinians, he offered a Canaanite’s perspective: “What kind of God you got that promised your ass my land?”
Just as suddenly he was veering back to Trump: “You want to talk about thugs and rapists? Georgia was founded as a colony for criminals!”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
As with every real racist; it’s always the past contending with the present. Always past facts, past this, past that.
All gone friends. Heads out of asses. Swallow that pride. Time to get on up and move on.
White-on-black crime. Does that......exist?
What did you expect, Rev. Wright? Never trust a Muslim.
Let’s talk about white-on-black crime.”
no lets talk about black on white crime and blakc on black crime, you know blakc lives matter, fn idiot racist
He’s mad that 0bama didn’t appoint him WH chaplain or something.
“I heard Donald Trump say if you’re here illegally you need to go back. Let’s start in the 1400s!”
Didn’t know Indians had Immigration Law.
Sounds like a real bunch of white fruitcakes at this event.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Anyone illegally here, right up until the 1400's, should be Shackled Up and Shipped Out.
Of course, since I have a valid US Birth Certificate, that won't include me.
Check and mate, Mr. Wright.
America’s s**t-birds are coming home to roost.
These people are perpetually angry about something.
If Wright is so mad at Barry, all he needs to do is spill the facts in the Down Low Club and the help solve the murder of Donald Young.
take a number “Rev”
I’d be mad to with a bus on top of me and all those other people.
What freaken white. On black crime might that be?
The vast majority has been black on black then black on white crime.
I’m just surprised whites haven’t gone death wish on these criminals.
3 dead church members one live politician. Maybe Wright was told to keep the DLC on the DL or he would be next.
Let’s ship him to Africa, permantly...
It’s all the Vikings fault for landing in Nova Scotia...
I am totally in favor of reparations for blacks. Take away obamaphones, obamacare, welfare, etc., and give every black family 40 acres and a mule and tell them to support themselves.
Well, then let the blacks and indians find the vikings’ descendants and sue them for reparations :)
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