Originally Posted by Toby

Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr Has said the following:

1) Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.

2) Wright on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months."

3) Wright on Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."

4) Wright on America: He has used the term "middleclassness" in a derogatory manner; frequently mentions "white arrogance" and the "oppression" of African-Americans today; and has referred to "this racist United States of America."

5) Wright on America II: “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God (*)(*)(*)(*) America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God (*)(*)(*)(*) America for treating our citizens as less than human. God (*)(*)(*)(*) America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

6) Wright on why Americans deserved 9/11: “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.

7) Wright on Louis Farrakhan: On the contrary, the article in the November/December issue of Trumpet begins by calling Farrakhan — who refers to Jews as bloodsuckers and whites as blue-eyed devils — an “icon.” It ends by saying that he “truly epitomized greatness.”

8 ) Wright on Aids: "The government created AIDS to infect and kill black people"

Originally Posted by Okamifujutsu

With the exception of the AIDS comment and maybe some of the stuff on Israel (I don't know much about the situation there), nothing he says strikes me as unusual. Plenty of pastors have blamed 9/11 on America, the fact that news about Africa never shows up on mainstream news networks is true, there's definately an ammount of racism in America ("I won't vote for Obama, don't want those ******s to get upity" is a common phrase in some parts of the US), and from my understanding Farrakhan has done plenty of good for people in his lifetime despite his hate. Can someone please tell me why this guy is controversial?

Originally Posted by JMS

yes, religion makes no sense!!! why obama?! why?!?!

luckily, he manages to keep his professional life professional. so i guess it kinda makes up for it.