Jeremiah Wright Is Still Angry at Barack Obama

The Atlantic ^ | 09/27/2015 | DAVID A. GRAHAM

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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!”

[GOPJ]

Let’s talk about white-on-black crime.”

Yeah, let's compare and contrast it with black on white crime...

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I always laugh at the complete abdication of the lib press to comment on King Barack's relationship with such an obvious racist like Wright. Can anyone imagine a white Pubbie prez candidate having a racist guttersnipe like Wright as his pastor for twenty years and not have the liberal media headline that and pound home The Narrative for as long as the Pubbie is a viable candidate?

Nothing typifies the complete abdication of their jobs as journalists than their, the lib media, complete refusal to cover the Wright-Obama relationship.

[driftless2]

"White-on-black crime. Does that......exist?"

Blacks murder about four hundred whites a year. Whites murder maybe fifty blacks a year. The number of blacks murdered by whites is not easy to pin down because Hispanics i.e. Mexicans are counted as whites in these surveys.

Mexican gangbangers are usually the "whites" who kill blacks, who themselves are usually gangbangers. The actual number of non criminal blacks murdered by non-hispanic whites is probably less than fifty annually.