Jeremiah Wright

Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, a large Chicago church with a black congregation. He had a relatively privileged upbringing in Philadelphia, where his father was a Baptist minister in the Germantown section and his mother was Vice-Principal at the prestigious Philadelphia High School for Girls. Jeremiah Wright himself attended the Central High School for Boys, which was a selective school that ranked among the very best in the United States. After attending 2 years of college Wright dropped out and joined first the United States Marine Corps and then the United States Navy. Wright associates "with Louis Farrakhan, one of the biggest racists and anti-Semites in the country".

Wright was the mentor President Barack Obama during his days in Chicago. Wright married Obama and his wife, baptized his children and had been a close spiritual adviser to Obama for twenty years. Wright even inspired the title of Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Wright came under fire for anti-American statements he has made, and for implying that the AIDS virus was spread by the United States government to wipe out the black population and that the United States got what it deserved on 9/11 and that the Jews are evil white people.

Wright's comments were condemned across America. Only when it became politically important, Obama finally distanced himself from Wright. Obama went to Wright's Church for almost many years and must have had a connection.

Barack Obama claims that he didn't know that Jeremiah Wright held hateful sermons, but went to the church for at least several years.

Wright's anti-American comments didn't end with the election. On December 7, 2008, while the majority of America was observing the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Wright claimed that December 7, 1941 was the day America bombed Hiroshima--a claim that reveals either a truly shocking ignorance of American history, or, more likely, a baldfaced attempt at historical revisionism.

Jeremiah Wright is a staunch supporter for the Nation of Islam. Wright received an award from none other than Louis Farrakhan.

Liberal defenders of Obama like to point out that not everyone was shocked at Wright's preachings and that he was actually defended by Mike Huckabee. Mike Huckabee stated: "We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, "You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had a more, more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me." Huckabee went on to say that "...no one can defend the content of Wright's statements." It is worth noting that Mike Huckabee was not defending the content of Jeremiah Wright's words, but the reason behind them.

Guest Speaker

Rev. Wright is now a popular traveling guest speaker, regardless of his warped viewpoint. He was in Washington for the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama and gave a Sunday sermon, January 18th at Howard University.