Hussein’s Pastor Compares Criticism Of Him With Assassination Of Martin Luther King
Politico:
The Chicago church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) issued a statement Sunday contending that coverage of his pastor’s inflammatory remarks amounted to character assassination and “an attack on … the history of the African American church.”
Obama distanced himself from inflammatory comments by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., retiring pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, after they circulated on YouTube last week and were played repeatedly by cable news channels.
Wright, condemning society as racist, said, “God [expletive] America” and referred to the “U.S. of KKK-A.”
The statement begins: “Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.”
The statement adds: “Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global.”
Neither Wright nor Obama was present at the church on Sunday.
The statement was provided to Politico by Trinity’s minister of communications, the Rev. Joan R. Harrell.
Here is the full text of the statement, with the headline, “AN ATTACK ON OUR SENIOR PASTOR AND THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH”:
Chicago, Ill. (March 15, 2008) — Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.
“Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. This does not include weekday worship services, revivals and preaching engagements across America and around the globe, to ecumenical and interfaith communities. It is an indictment on Dr. Wright’s ministerial legacy to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound bite,” said the Reverend Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.
During the 36-year pastorate of Dr. Wright, Trinity United Church of Christ has grown from 87 to 8,000 members. It is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination.
“It saddens me to see news stories reporting such a caricature of a congregation that has been such a blessing to the UCC’s Wider Church mission,” said the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president, in a released statement. “ … It’s time for us to say ‘No’ to these attacks and declare that we will not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or ideological ends.”
Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global. The following ministries have been developed under Dr. Wright’s ministerial tutelage for social justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry, scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships for women and men attending seminary.
Moss added, “The African American Church was born out of the crucible of slavery and the legacy of prophetic African American preachers since slavery has been and continues to heal broken marginalized victims of social and economic injustices. This is an attack on the legacy of the African American Church which led and continues to lead the fight for human rights in America and around the world.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, “love thy neighbor as thyself.” Before Dr. King was murdered on April 4, 1968, he preached, “The 11 o’clock hour is the most segregated hour in America.” Forty years later, the African American Church community continues to face bomb threats, death threats, and their ministers’ characters are assassinated because they teach and preach prophetic social concerns for social justice. Sunday is still the most segregated hour in America.
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Digging up the grave of MLK so you can have a photo-op with the corpse after you’re “outed” as a lying, racist bastard: priceless!
March 16th, 2008 at 12:56 pmAbout time the Obama campaign feels some heat. The pastor is an asinine prick, who sadly, went to college in my hometown.
March 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm1968 seems to be a big year and one that is mentioned a LOT in the Obama circles - lets see - What else happened in 1968????
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1553/c68chron.html
March 16th, 2008 at 1:03 pmQuite a reach there Beeee Oeeee.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:26 pmDo you know what happens when you forcibly remove a village, chain them up, ship them overseas, make them slaves, breed them and then make THEM slaves, breed them and then make THEM slaves, make them grow and harvest crops, make them build cities, degrade them, kill them, spit on them, whip them, humiliate them, then LET THEM GO FREE? Then spit on them some more, beat them some more, call them nigger, lynch them, for another hundred years then finally let them VOTE AND BE EQUAL. 40 yrs later is now, who in there right mind can possibly think that all of this can simply be forgotten in such a short time? Living people still have scars to remember part of this dark history. Wright was Right. It is such a sad shame that Obama has to reject these remarks from an intelligent man trying to speak the truth.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
March 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pmTiny problem with your admirably bleeding heart theory.
Wright has not been alive that long. And the abominations visited upon his predecessors are not in his personal experience (although I grant you somebody might have spat on him and called him nasty names).
If we are to grant African Americans the right to reparations for crimes inflicted upon their ancestors, then by the same token individuals who can claim that their ancestors were highly beneficial to society should also be granted royalties from services rendered eons ago. Your grandfather was General Patton? Okay, you should also get a ticker-tape parade. Your grandfather was a serial killer who got away? Fine, we’ll execute you instead.
Here’s the reality of the situation: It’s over. It’s done and it’s now time to move on. A great many African Americans have moved on and made lives for themselves. Many have not. They would rather piss and moan and point at history books rather than improve their lot in life.
Wright does not want to move on. He wants to wallow in the filth of history until he gets his gov’t check.
Wright’s an asshole. Hussein is an asshole. And you, Eric, have fallen for the oldest liberal tactic on planet Earth.
March 16th, 2008 at 1:52 pmThank you for that exposé of the Core Theology, Eric. Oh, and as to targets, did you know the only ethnic and national groups still seizing and holding slaves are the same ones who captured and sold the Negroes: the Arabs? Anything to say about them?
And here’s more about Wright the Right, and a plea to: Free Michelle! Oblahblah needs repeated injections of your Foot-in-Mouth viruses!
March 16th, 2008 at 1:55 pmEric,
Just fuck yourself. You miss the point entirely.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:37 pmTo quote Christopher Titus, “Why don’t you get down off your cross,
use the wood to build a bridge, and GET OVER IT.”
Get out of here, you’re stinking up the place.
I can smell your white guilt through the friggin computer screen.
Isn’t there a gay, multicultural, marxist, self loathing, self important atheist,
March 16th, 2008 at 2:47 pmglobal warming, one world communist hand puppet web site you could visit?
Rev. Wright was a slave Eric? Wow, for a slave he sure did good for himself. How about Obama and Michelle? Were they slaves too? Wow, they sure did good for themselves as well.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:01 pm“And you, Eric, have fallen for the oldest liberal tactic on planet Earth.”
Eric is a drive-by liberal troll.
He shows up every now and then, stirs up shit, then he’s gone.
Eric is NOT a victim, he didn’t fall for a liberal trick.
He’s here to inject useful-idiocracy into the adult conversation.
Get me a rolled up magazine or something.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pmShoo liberal fly. Shoo.
I can guarantee that today, far more people get their asses kicked for being white than for being black. I grew up in a mostly black area and moved to a mostly white area. It’s night and day, pardon the pun.
And anyone who says, “The cops beat me up because I’m black…” often forget to add, “…and leading them on a 100-MPH chase while drunk, stoned, or high.”
March 16th, 2008 at 4:54 pmOh I think Eric comes back to see the remarks on occasion, just doesn’t have the courage to give another reply.
I have to admit, I am really glad to better know Barack Hussein Obama over these past couple weeks.
I am feeling better about the GOP chances of winning in November although it is still going to be tough.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:18 pmObama is dead politically even at MyDD. Apparently he got tons of credit for legislation that he was not involved in initiating. Apparently the supporter of Edwards (Kos) still doesn’t see the light. They can’t imagine that they were hornswaggled. Tons of voters will stay home in November, unless something happens to McCain, and the GOP will win by a landslide across the board.
Here in Lousiana we actually do have real change. It is a conservative GOP governor who has been delivered a new slate with term limits getting rid of half the old legislature. He has the support of tons of black college students from black universities here as well. He just doesn’t have the New Orleans legislative support and no one really cares. This is going to be paraded around the nation as what real change looks like, ethics reform, getting rid of freebies, cutting taxes, particularly for businesses, and tax deductions for families with school aged kids so that they can afford tuition and private and parochial schools or buy supplies for public school kids.
Anyway the muslim in Christian clothing has been exposed as well as his pastor another muslim in Christian clothing.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pmPOD1, I like that Titus thing. I’m going to make a sign of it and hang it on my door so I see it everytime I go out.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Eric,
POD1; Excellent rebuttle and description of Eric the Pink.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:51 pmYou are the type of male we would have pantsed in high school. In other words, we would have taken off your pants and your pink boxer-shorts, and make you walk home.
Beware of white-liberals bearing guilt like Eric the Pink.
Hey Eric, I never hear of your ilk ever giving thanks to men like my Grandpa Stockwell’s uncle, my great-great uncle who died at the Battle of Antietam. But then again you do not even know your U.S. history, do you?
He died to free the blacks.
To your fallen ancestors.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:51 pmEric’s a tool…he probably thinks O.J. was innocent and that whitey is responsible for 70% of black babies being born out of wedlock.
Tell me Eric. I’m still trying to find something of Christ in the heretic message from “Rev”. Was it humping the podium, using God’s name in vain in the pulpit nonethless, or the fact that us crackers invented HIV to pass on the the inferior races?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:19 am