Mr Wright and his wife Ramah will not be the poor relations in their new and overwhelmingly white neighbourhood. The property will boast four bedrooms, a whirlpool, butler’s pantry, elevator, exercise room, circular driveway and four-car garage.
During his 36 years at its helm, Rev Wright built up Trinity from a church with 87 members to a congregation of 10,000 that includes many of the most influential figures in black Chicago.
I excerpted the key points I wanted to address from the article. This nasty, hateful, racist old country, and that hateful God who has for some reason smiled on it, sure did treat Mr. Wright horribly. I'm white, educated, and worked my @$$ off all my life, and I'll never have any of the above. I don't begrudge him a penny of what he's got; I wish he could afford a bigger house, in a better place.
What I DO find infuriating is for people like the Reverend Wright to complain about America, while gorging himself on its fruits. I'd be willing to be be called a n****r every day for the kind of remuneration he's gotten.
He's lived a fuller, more productive, more interesting, more lucrative life than I, a supposed member of the "ruling class". Again, I don't begrudge him that. I chose my life style. What I despise is someone like him crying about the evil system and what it's done to him. Ted Kennedy, John Edwards, the Clintons, and a bunch of others are on my list for the same sins, in case any of you think this is a race thing deep down inside.
he has not lived a fuller life or been more productive...he thinks he has been but he hasn't....
the guy who has worked faithfully at building roads or houses or plowing the snow or fixing the plumbing can truely say he has accomplished more MEANINGFUL work than this arrogant elitist....
anybody can yell and scream and belittle anything....it takes a true man to FIX things...to HEAL things.....to PRODUCE things....
Wright has done none of that...
he's in the same category of all that have been the beneficiary of ill-gotten goods......that is all.....
there are the doers in this world and there are the talkers......Wright is simply a talker...