“Speaking at the 100th anniversary of a Washington, D.C. church, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright knocked President Barack Obama and accused America’s elite academic institutions of instilling racism. Wright opened up his sermon at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church Sunday by reading from the Book of Isaiah and speaking of the importance of foundational stones. Using that as a metaphor, Wright proceeded to list dozens of names that he suggested were foundational stones for the black community, from Nat Turner to Emmett Till to W.E.B Du Bois. He then seemingly took a shot at his former parishioner, President Obama.
“They are the foundation,” he said of the names he listed. “These stones of memory shall serve as a sign among you so that in the future when your children, who only know Oprah and Obama, when our children who speak the language of Nas, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne (Weezy) and Ludacris. When your children ask you who are these people and what do these stones mean, these stones mean, you can tell them what it is that God did to get us from where we were to where we are.” “This is how God brought us out,” he continued. “This is how God brought us over, this is how God brought us through.” Wright later went on to suggest that America’s elite universities infect African Americans with “white racist DNA.”* share your thoughts.
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I read it a few times and, although I HATE to do it, I have to say that Wright is dead on. (Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.) I don’t think he was knocking either of his former parishioners, I think he was saying that kids today do not know those that proceeded us, that they only know “Oprah and Obama”. They do not know Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Dr. Charles Drew, Matthew Peary, and a host of others who paved the way for them to succeed by their feats of excellence. Then of course he had to go back off the rails and opine about “white racist DNA”. Well, He IS Rev. Wright….
I applaud and thank Rev. Wright because the truth is-and will always be- an absolute defense to a lie. In addition, Rev. Wright’s statements are quite ironic to me because just yesterday I told a group of my friends that the one thing I that I have observed and learned since President Obama’s inarguration is to not send your children to Harvard because everything appears to be a Harvard social experiment, and with this in mind, Rev. Wright is indeed speaking the truth.