Wright Shows He's No Politician
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a man of many faces. He’s an old-school 70’s leftie, a man who preached every Sunday in what the American religion scholar Martin Marty has called “greenish African-American pajamas.” He’s an intellectual, a professor who reads Hebrew and Greek, a gifted musician who can play a wide variety of instruments and a teacher who feels comfortable tossing around words like “hermeneutics,” as he did Monday morning in a speech at the National Press Club. And he’s an angry black man, a pastor who has spent his life fighting injustice everywhere he sees it. When a questioner asked him to explain the now-familiar sound bite-a snippet from a sermon in which Wright damned America for sending its young men and women to war--Wright did not flinch. He said that he had told Barack Obama that if the Illinois senator were to be elected President, “On November 5, I’m coming after you.”
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