What Rev. Jeremiah Wright Really Said & The Attack on Black Theology

[Moorbey]

The Attack on Black Theology (FCN, 04-20-2008)
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publ...cle_4595.shtml


The Chicago Tribune recently transcribed some controversial sermons of
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's former pastor. As can be seen
below, many of his remarks were taken out of context.

SEPT. 16, 2001 Sound bite: "We've bombed Hiroshima, we've bombed
Nagasaki, we've nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the
Pentagon and we never batted an eye. . . . We have supported state
terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans, and now
we are indignant. Because the stuff we have done overseas is now
brought right back into our own front yards. America's chickens are
coming home to roost."

Wright in context:

"I heard Ambassador (Edward) Peck on an interview yesterday, did
anybody else see him or hear him? He was on Fox News. This is a White
man, and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. Did you
see him, John? A White man. He pointed out, an ambassador, that what
Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact
true, that America's chickens are coming home to roost.

"We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, the
Iroquois, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism. We took
Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them
enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism. We bombed Grenada and killed
innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel; we bombed the
Black civilian community of Panama, with Stealth bombers, and killed
unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard-working
fathers. We've bombed (Muammar) Gadhafi's home and killed his child.

"Blessed are they who bash your children's heads against the rocks. We
bombed Iraq; we killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We
bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back an attack on our embassy. Killed
hundreds of hard-working people, mothers and fathers who left home to
go that day, not knowing that they would never get back home.

"We've bombed Hiroshima, we've bombed Nagasaki, we've nuked far more
than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an
eye. Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children after
school, civilians not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by
day.

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black
South Africans, and now we are indignant. Because the stuff we have
done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.

"America's chickens are coming home to roost. Violence begets
violence. Hatred begets hatred and terrorism begets terrorism. A White
ambassador said that, y'all, not a Black militant. Not a reverend who
preaches about racism.

JULY 2003 Sound bite: "The government gives them the drugs, builds
bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing
'God Bless America?' No, no, no, not 'God Bless America,' 'God Damn
America.'"

Wright in context:

"The United States of America government, when it came to treating her
citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on the
reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese
descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps.
When it came to treating the citizens of African descent fairly,
America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on
slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields,
put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put
them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs,
put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of the
racist bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of
hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs,
builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to
sing 'God Bless America?'

"No, no, no, not 'God Bless America,' 'God Damn America.' That's in
the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating
its citizens as less than human, God damn America as long as she tries
to act like she is God and she is supreme. The United States
government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African
descent."

JAN. 13, 2008 Sound bite: "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has
been good to us. No he ain't. Bill did us just like he did Monica
Lewinski. He was riding dirty.î

Wright in context:

"There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction.
'But he's a Black man.' There is a man here who is empowered by hope
to usher in an era of change in a country that is in desperate need of
a change. 'But he ain't Black enough.' There is a man here who can get
Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and persons of no faith
to sit down at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood and talk about
our common humanity and our common future. 'But I ain't gonna vote for
him 'cause I don't want to waste my vote.' 'But Hillary is married to
Bill, and Bill has been good to us.' No he ain't. Bill did us just
like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the
NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach.
This commentary was distributed by NNPA.



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[Im The Truth]

If we don't understand the importance of Black Theology there is a serious problem.

[tyydae]

Either way (in-context or out of context) it was the truth. It all sounds good to me.

[nattyreb]

i was making some long distance calls for Bro. Hameed and took a notion to visit Trinity's site with their impressive list of ministries (http://www.tucc.org/ministries.htm) and give them a call to shout out some support from my town. A sister answered immediately and was very grateful to hear from someone with something upful to say, if so moved, please follow suit! Phone # is (773) 962-5650.

[Nefertiti]

Truth hurts!!! I enjoy when the shit is being slung in the faces of kkkrackkka Amerikkka!! I will be calling that church Sis Nattyreb