For twenty years, Barack Obama attended Trinity United Church in which Rev. Jeremiah Wright spewed his not famous hateful rhetoric on an apparently regular basis. For twenty years, Wright was Obama’s spiritual “mentor.” In Wright he had found both a spiritual mentor and a role model.
When he took over Trinity United Church of Christ in 1972, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. was a maverick pastor with a wardrobe of dashikis and a militant message.
The rebellious son of a Baptist minister, Wright was hired by Trinity United when he could find no Baptist church to take him. At the time he wore a fiery red Afro and publicly sounded off his unapologetically black power agenda. Had he been white, and issuing an unapologetically white power agenda, he would have been quickly branded a racist.
He has built a congregation of 8,500, including the likes of Oprah Winfrey and hip-hop artist Common, by offering an alternative to socially conservative black churches.
A young Barack Obama visited the church in 1985 as a community activist. Obama, was not a churchgoer at the time, but he found himself returning to the sanctuary of Trinity. Obama came to Chicago as a young unknown. Here was a black guy with a hidden desire for national politics. But he had a white mother, and had a long relationship with a white girl in college. He attended some assumed “white” private schools in Hawaii. He attended the assumed “white” college of Harvard. So Obama, to many in the black community, had too much “white” in him to succeed with black voters. That’s when he found Trinity and Rev. Wright.
Obama says that rather than advising him on strategy, Wright helps keep his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated. Huh? Do Rev. Wright’s sermons direct any of your priorities or help keep your moral compass calibrated? Right the opposite, Rev. Wright’s sermons clearly show me what to veer away from.
Now, for the first time, Obama could “prove” his blackness to his future constituency by attending, and nodding to the sermons, bellowing out of Trinity. This was not an exercise in new-found Christianity - this was a calculated political device and action. Therefore no not take Obama’s “condemnation” of Rev. Wright as anything but another calculated political action, for he’s doing nothing now but pandering those Liberals that have weak stomachs. After all we can’t all hold hands and sing “Kum Ba Yah” while there’s racism in the air, right?
From American Thinker:
When Obama moved to Chicago and became a community organizer, he found it expedient to choose a Christian church to join. Even though his father and stepfather were both Muslims and he attended a Muslim school while living in Indonesia, suspicions based on his days as a child are overheated and unfair. Still, his full name alone conveys the biographical fact that he has some elements of a Muslim background.
Saul Alinsky, whose philosophy infused community organizing in Chicago, emphasized the importance of churches as a basis for organizing. There are literally hundreds of churches on the South Side of Chicago that Obama could have chosen from. He selected one that was headed by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Junior. The anti-Israel rants of this minister have been well chronicled.
Pastor Wright is a supporter of Louis Farrakhan (who called Judaism a “gutter religion” and depicted Jews as “bloodsuckers”) and traveled with him to visit Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, archenemy of Israel’s and a terror supporter. Most recently, as head of the UN Security Council Gaddafi prevented condemnation of attacks against Israel.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan received the “Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer” Award at the 2007 Trumpet Gala at the United Church of Christ.
This is a church and a pastor who Obama has relied upon to shape his views, to be his sounding board; the church is the largest recipient of his charity dollars; he proudly states that he admires the church and Jeremiah Wright, Junior. He prayed with Wright before he announced his candidacy for President. He is a beacon for Obama.
Wow. This is the guy that helps keep Obama’s priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated? But, to Obama’s advantage, this is also the guy that officially blessed Obama and publicly acknowledged that Obama is indeed black - something Obama sorely needed and couldn’t do himself.
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