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On page 291, Obama describes a sermon delivered by the Rev. Wright called “The Audacity to Hope” (itself the inspiration of his second book and its now-famous title, “The Audacity of Hope”) during which Wright recounted the sermon of a fellow pastor who described a painting he had once seen titled “Hope.”
The painting depicts a harpist, Obama recalls the Rev. Wright explaining, who sits “bruised and bloodied” atop a mountain. Chaos in the form of famine, war and deprivation reign in the valley below, Wright says.
Obama quotes Rev. Wright: “ ‘It is a world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere . . . That’s the world! On which hope sits.’ “
Obama continues: “And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Rev. Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate.”
Rest assured Obama’s recollection of that sermon is getting a closer reading.
“. . . white folks’ greed runs a world in need . . .”