The recent controversy surrounding the comments made seven years ago, during a church sermon by Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright, has caused polarization and heated debate among American citizens. Although the U.S. has a long history of revolutionary vigor tempered by its founding fathers, has shown great disdain for tyranny at home and abroad, and has zealously advocated the individual’s constitutional rights to speak out boldly against oppression and immoral actions, this does not seem to apply to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (a well-loved American hero, a person that has his own national holiday in the United States, and whose name adorns public schools, libraries and street corners across the United States of America) spoke directly to America’s moral conscience in his Vietnam war speech of 1967.
Following the September 11, 2001 bombing of New York City’s World Trade Center by Islamic Al-Queda extremists Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke, some have said, in the same long-held prophetic manner of liberation theology ministers Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Rev. Richard Allen, Rev. Alexander Crummell and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Simply put……beautiful. And thank you.have I own a Tee-shirt with 4 pictures of MLK being arrested. I often say this is the treatment that was given to MLK by some. Only now that he is gone they see him as a HERO! USA (United States of Amnesia!)