BTW -- I'm still looking for the "hate" that he was preaching.
For a start............."U.S. of KKKA".
BTW -- I'm still looking for the "hate" that he was preaching.
Rev. Wright's ministries are meeting the needs of a community and the growth the congration has experienced has been solely because of the strength of his message and how it resonates with that community.
I had a college history professor who got to go back to the VA for testing due to his proximity to A Bomb tests after WWII.
It may have been the basis of their society but not all. There were numerous cultures - including some of the ones that inhabited the western hemisphere before Europeans showed up - where such things were not the norm.Men born and raised in a society where the "proper" social order was wealthy/noble men on top, and everyone else below them, in descending order. Where all men without wealth and social station were either considered property or barely above it. And women were property in all but name. And this situation had been the norm and the expected basis of society for hundreds, even thousands of years.
Oh c'mon now, it was either about slavery or it wasn't.#1- Absolutely. It's part of our Country's history. And not a good part. Neither is the massacre at Wounded Knee, but it happened. It's also part of our history that whites fought a civil war over the disagreements about slavery.
It may have been the basis of their society but not all. There were numerous cultures - including some of the ones that inhabited the western hemisphere before Europeans showed up - where such things were not the norm.
I never suggested holding anyone accountable for the sins of previous generations. However it's almost as wrong to simply ignore those atrocities because they haven't happened to anyone living today. The simple fact is that many of the problems facing certain classes of people today are directly related to many of the social injustices their ancestors faced.I had nothing to do with things before my birth, as did most of us here, and I cannot see any logic to holding any of us to blame for the past.
from theHistoryMakers.com
...the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was born on September 22, 1941, in Philadelphia. His parents, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Sr. and Dr. Mary Henderson Wright, were his earliest influences, instilling in him the possibility of balancing the intellectual with the spiritual.
from Trinity UCC.org
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his elementary education in that city and then went to Virginia Union University. After three and a half years at Virginia Union, Pastor Wright left school and entered the United States Marine Corps. He transferred from the USMC into the United States Navy where he served as a cardiopulmonary technician.
After six years in the military, Pastor Wright transferred to Howard University where he completed his undergraduate studies and received his first Master’s Degree. His second Master’s Degree was from the University of Chicago Divinity School. His Doctorate was received from the United Theological Seminary under Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor. In addition to Pastor Wright’s four earned degrees, he has been the recipient of eight honorary doctorates.
The Mason-Dixon line did not stop racism. The 40s and 50s had plenty of racism regardless of his background. Racism was still prevalent in the military and even at universities. He wasn't insulated from anything.He is all of 66 years old. He was born north of the Mason-Dixon line to an intact family with professional parents. (Strikingly similar to the Cosby show.) Admittedly, he was a young man during the post-war civil rights struggle, but he was insulated from any personel suffering in the Navy, and at Howard and U.C. Divinity.
You have no way of knowing that.The frenzied anger is not real.