“The truth is, that isn’t all that I know of the man.”
This is what Obama has said about Jeremiah Wright’s widely distributed statements. It’s true that if the media constantly reprinted the “anti-American” remarks of this other black preacher (as much as they do the “God Damn America” snippet from Wright) we might have a different memory of the man below:
Don’t let anybody make you think that God chose America as His divine messianic force to be — a sort of policeman of the whole world. … I can hear God saying to America: “You are too arrogant! If you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name.”
Scandalous? Perhaps. The speech above was from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The point is, out of hundreds of sermons that are available for sale to the public from Jeremiah Wright - the media has only found three passages to broadcast over and over again. Surely such a hate-mongering man would have more sermons to pull from?
THE SHORTEST SERMONS EVER
We get 30 second sound bites from 45 minute sermons. This fuels our fury for Wright’s lifetime of preaching. How many people outside of his congregation have heard any sermons in context?
- For example, the media loves the “Hillary ain’t never been called a n—– ” sound bite where Wright talks of being black in America, but in context, the next few lines have Wright telling the congregation to love everyone, including enemies. (more…)
