The Real Jeremiah Wright

[Marnieworld]

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel/2008/04/who_is_jeremiah_wright.html

The Real Jeremiah Wright
What if the only thing you knew about Thomas Jefferson was that he owned slaves?

What if, instead of the video of the I Have a Dream speech, elementary school students were taught that Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “My government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world …”?

What if the single piece of information you possessed about Nelson Mandela was that he co-founded a terrorist organization called Umkhonto we Sizwe (abbreviated as MK), which stands for Spear of the Nation?

With apologies to William Blake, if you believe you can see the world in a grain of sand, you better make sure it is the right grain.

So, how well do the twelve words we know about Jeremiah Wright define the man, the nearly four-decades of ministry, the church he built, the denomination it belongs to, the black community, and whatever else we think he might represent? Are those words the right grain of sand?

[ClayZ]

1. Thanks! K and R

http://www.tucc.org/ Trinity Website

[BlooInBloo]

2. Those 12 words are right *enough* for white folks.

[H2O Man]

3. Well said.

Thank you.
Nominated.

[Marnieworld]

5. The words of Eboo Patel at the link

I don't want to not give credit. But I agree he said it well. Will anyone on TV ever pose it like this though?

[H2O Man]

6. Will anyone on TV?

Yes. There will not be many this afternoon or tonight. But it will happen.

[smalll]

4. We're going to get a lot more than "twelve words" from Wright by November --

(what with the pre-book tour, to be followed by the actual book tour after the summer, plus I get the feeling Wright will show up in Denver as well.)

We're going to get mountains of words from Wright. By election day, it will feel like we've all sat for twenty years in his pews!

AND IT WON'T BE A GOOD THING.

[leftofcool]

7. Good God!

I hope he shuts up. The last thing I want to feel like is that I have sat in one of his pews for 20 years. I bet you are right about Denver.

[ProSense]

8. Why? Is he making Hillary's race baiting more difficult? n/t

[leftofcool]

10. Wright is an idiot

and quite frankly, I am tired of him dominating the news because our soldiers aren't getting the coverage they deserve. Tell your candidate to have his spiritul advisor to shut the fuck up

[ProSense]

13. Do you speak five languages? America would be richer if a lot more people emulated Wright. n/t

[Kittycat]

16. And how many degrees? 3? A Doctorate & 8 Honorary Degrees

Yeah - that sounds like an idiot :eyes:

[JoFerret]

22. Aaaargh

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[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Marnieworld.:thumbsup:

[Marnieworld]

My friend sent me this link and I had to share

We have to fight against the spin!

[Uncle Joe]

15. Sharing is good and I'm tired

of the corporate media's carnival mirror coverage of our potential leaders.

Peace,
UJ

[loyalsister]

11. Awesome post

I have been trying to educate people about how wrong they are about MLK since this thing with Wright first broke.
White people have this warm fuzzy stereotype that is far from reality. For some it has been somewhat of a teachable moment. Most refuse to believe it.
Imagine what would have happened to the civil rights movement if Youtube had been available!

I have concluded that the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts can be easily derailed by biases. Even unconcious biases which are basically innocent.

[redqueen]

12. Nice.

Thank you for posting this. :)

[Wind Dancer]

14. Excellent post!

The negative attacks made against the Rev. Wright are frightening.

I posted this earlier in response to another thread:

snip

"If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty, to make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to Hell…."

The incendiary speech of Barak Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Hardly. These words were spoken with great fervor by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American hero, not long before his death.

snip

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." Martin Luther King Jr., in his 1967 book, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community"

snip

"It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages," King said two weeks before his death."… I can hear the God of the universe saying… 'The children of my sons and daughters were in need of economic security, and you didn't provide for them. So you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness'."

more

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23947058 /

Rev. Wright has a great deal in common with MLK, Jr. - it's a shame so many folks are ignoring that vital piece of information.

[Rainbowreflect]

17. Would you mind if I paraphrased what you wrote to

include in a LTTE I am writing?

[Marnieworld]

18. I didn't write it. A man named Eboo Patel did

A link to the article starts the thread. You could probably just quote him or paraphrase it since it is basically a fact that MLK said similiar things.

[Rainbowreflect]

19. I'm an idiot, did not see the link. Thanks!

[Rainbowreflect]

20. I'm an idiot, and then posted twice.

Long day, need to go home!

[me b zola]

21. K&R