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  • Rev Jeremiah Wright to retire in 'white suburb'

    05/03/2008 10:05:43 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 62 replies · 208+ views
    UK Telegraph ^ | May 03 2008 | Philip Sherwell
    The fiery African-American pastor whose incendiary outbursts on race have dented the prospects of Barack Obama becoming the first black US president is to retire to an upmarket suburb where almost all of the residents are white. Grateful parishioners of Rev Jeremiah Wright, 66, are building him a $1 million, 10,400 sq ft mansion, next to a country club and golf course in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. In the 2000 census, just two per cent of Tinley Park’s 48,400 residents were black and 93 per cent were white. Rev Wright built up his Chicago mega-church over 36...