Don’t get it confused, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no back woods preacher or store front reverend with a handful of friends and family tolerating his ranting and willing to listen to him pretend to be a leader. No. Rev Jeremiah Wright is a leader. He is a real “man of the cloth”, known throughout this country for coming to your town and setting spiritual souls a’ fire when your own church or congregation has lost it’s direction or needs an injection of the Holy Ghost Spirit. And with his Obama association under fire more ministers and “lay Christians should be stepping forward and admitting to this fact, “We love us some Jeremiah Wright.”
I myself have been to revivals here in Los Angeles and my mother in Virginia as well. Anyone who goes to church more than one day a week can testify that when Jeremiah Wright hits town it’s a must see, just like Billy Graham, Creflo Dollar, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn and the Dali Lama, . If loving him is wrong, I still want to hear Rev. Jeremiah Wright, because when I did hear him preach, I bought the book, I bought the tape and was looking for the T-Shirt. America I am not alone
Wright says some radical things that are thought provoking but never totally inaccurate to those who have an ear to listen. Wright blames 911 on terrorist and American policies around the world equally. Who is this a surprise to? Of course in some way America shares fault in the attack. The U.S. has horrible economic policies in a lot of countries that in the name of progress and help undermine governments and sovereignty.
If Obama is guilty of spiritual hypocrisy we might as well throw Bill and Hillary Clinton under that same bus.
Or do we forget that while Jessie Jackson was counseling the Clintons through the Monica Lewinsky situation, “The Reverend” Jackson was having an extra marital affair of his own that resulted in a baby by his mistress. It is a shame that any candidate has to explain his spiritual leader, affiliation or how he prays.
But what are we really talking about. What is all the huff really about? Ladies and gentleman, “It’s a Black Thing.” White America is always mystified with the fervor, passion and “telling it like it is” of the African American Church. It is not Baptist, Holy Roller, God In Christ; Pentecostal… it is not denominational. It is Black. The Black church started this way when we were slaves, when 12 hour work days, whipping and rape needed a little something more than a Catholic 12 Hail Marys. Methodist and Abolitionist first allowed African Slaves to read the Bible in secret.
But if slave owners caught them outside the church reading, they were lashed or killed. Getting hosed and lynched in the 4o’s 50’s and 60’s needed more that a Presbyterians quiet prayer. Explain to your unknowing friends that at one time, the only place African Americans were allowed to gather and freely express their feelings and scream at oppression was in the closed doors of the Black Church. And it was the Black preachers who let us know church time was the time to do so.
I attended Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, former pulpit of minister and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Another loud mouth in your face minister not liked by “that other America”)
I was amazed that the whole main section of the church could be closed off and locked from the inside by a series of 4; 10ft tall, 6inch thick, 12 feet long metal doors, that slid into place by these enormous over head rollers. Every time I saw those doors I always thought of the Klan or some group trying in vane to break them down to harm the Black folks who must have been huddled in mass in this church. Is this another reason why the main body of the church is called the sanctuary? If Jeremiah Wright’s critics saw these doors, they’d probably say it was time to take these doors down. Rev. Jeremiah Wright would probably remind us of their desperate need in the past and their potential use in the future. And he would be right.Once again I ask where is the support from all the other ministers who have invited him to be their special programs to preach. Shame on you. If you are reading this post fess up and tell us if he has ever come to your church or did you go to another church to hear him. What did you think?