In support of the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright

The Dalton Daily Citizen ^ | March 28, 2008 | Presiding Bishop William P. DeVeaux

[2ndDivisionVet]

We, the Sixth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, representing more than 80,000 members and clergy in Georgia, express support for our clergy colleague, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. Rev. Wright is a renowned religious scholar, nurturing pastor and outstanding preacher. Our friend and fellow minister has been vilified in the national media for practicing the great commission to go ye preach and baptize in my name.

We repudiate the irresponsible and shameful behavior of the national media for replaying and sensationalizing Rev. Wright’s words out of context simply to accommodate a salacious sound byte. Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures. For example, in the overplayed sound byte Rev. Wright was not cursing America or its people. Rather he was pointing out historical and modern day incidents of racial intolerance or violence that were both heinous and damnable.

The charges of racism against Rev. Wright are false, as it is doubtful that the United Church of Christ, a white denomination, would have appointed him to pastor one of its churches. For African American clergy, controversy is to be expected as we preach a liberation theology that condemns any effort to persecute human beings.

We applaud the Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, for his strength of character and integrity in refusing to denigrate Pastor Wright. We laud the Senator’s unflinching honesty as well as his leadership and great courage in illuminating the real and painful truth of race in America. Senator Obama boldly placed the issue of race squarely on the table for further discussion and as an impetus to accomplish the kind of change that he has espoused throughout the Democratic presidential campaign.

William P. DeVeaux

Presiding Bishop

Sixth Episcopal District

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

[2ndDivisionVet]

Mmmmkay.

[rockrr]

"Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures."

Oh, I get it....wright wasn't saying "G D America!" when he was saying G D America!...he was really saying "America..GD!" That makes so much more sense...

[cynwoody]

Here’s another black minister’s answer to Reverend Wright:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=col8nBwHs3Y

[Hugin]

Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures.

No doubt because they're right-brained and can't learn the same way as left-brained white people. /sarc

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures."

Bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yay.

[Philo-Junius]

I’m afraid my psychology has been indelibly juxtaposed by his languaging articulations.

Can I get government aid for that?

[1035rep]

Wow, more than 80,000 members. A much bigger problem than I had originally thought.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Wow, more than 80,000 members. A much bigger problem than I had originally thought."

And that's just one denomination in a single state (Georgia).

[ChiMark]

This appears to be the natural evolution of the victimology
prescibed to the Black poulation.
There is no assimilation into the mainstream.

Are we going back to “seperate but equal” proposition?

[Prole]

Blacks who follow and support vile, racist goons like Wright, Farrakhan, Shabazz and Obama are a lost cause. They are as lost as the deluded white fools who follow the Nazi cause.

They are not Americans.

I am not quite sure what they are, but they do not favor American success in the slightest. Some of us have observed Obama's thinly veiled threats of a "quiet riot" of coming violence from these people.

Subsequently, many Americans fear that they will commit violence if Obama loses in August or November. Only time will tell.

[Mancolicani]

Why must I chase the cat, nuthin but the dog in me...

[barb-tex]

Ask any white school teacher, and like the AMEC, The attitude of Rev Wright is held by a majority of the African American students. You may think you have friends in the AA community, buts that's not the way to bet.They have been portrayed as victims so long, that when THE NEW PRESIDENT takes office, payback will be a B.
barbra ann

[BigCinBigD]

Dear William P. DeVeaux

Presiding Bishop

Sixth Episcopal District

The African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Up yours.

Love Whitey.

[Kozak]

He better win this time. Because before too long African Americans, with lots of help from their liberal friends will find themselves moving from 2nd to 3rd place in our society behind the Hispanics. The power struggle going in LA is only a taste of what’s coming.

[LeoWindhorse]

if only Booth hadn’t shot Mr. Lincoln

[Dawnsblood]

I am so glad they let us know they support this racist idiot. it lets me know who stands with us and who does not. he and Louie can josh all they want about mad scientists making white people to enslave them. I will just remember the racism.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Quite frankly African Americans articulate and use language differently than whites by juxtaposing words to paint indelible psychological pictures.

So he’s saying that sermons by these preachers are the equivalent of using heavy psychopharmacological substances? Like a bad acid trip?

Maybe we can get the DEA involved. . .

[EBH]

has been vilified in the national media for practicing the great commission

As a Christian I am offended by this out and out lie. He was not vilified for practicing the Great Commission, he was vilified for the distinct lack there of. I rebuke you Bishop and Wright as called for by the true Great Commission.

I rebuke you for spreading lies and telling tall tales,

I rebuke you for teaching victimology where no victimhood truly exists,

I rebuke your divisiveness of the American community,

and lastly I rebuke you for failing to teach your followers how to fish for their own livelihoods and to be fishermen of men's souls to God.

[chasio649]

Thanks for that link....excellent!