The original poster of this video titled it "Media 101." It is indeed incredible, even for those of us who are accustomed to it, how media has picked apart this sermon so that its flavor seems purely assaultive, thoughtless and lacking scholarship.
Here when hearing larger chucks of his lecture, one plainly experiences a man who is pensive, engaging, analytical and appropriately passionate in discussing the widespread murder of innocents around the planet.
I am not a proponent and in fact, am an opponent of some of what Reverend Wright has uttered from time to time, but I am just as prepared to defend a Brother who has been woefully mischaracterized, demonized and had the value of his life's work minimized in the process of media attempts to commit political slaughter of Senator and Candidate Barack Obama.
Not so fast.
This Glen Beck, who popped out like an embryo from nowhere of late and landed a national television show - suggested one is "not a racist for questioning Black Liberation Theology."
I contend questioning Black Liberation Theology doesn't make one a racist, when one had already proven himself to be as much.
The Whole Beloved Speech
"Violence Begets Violence"
Jeremiah Wright
Later, King said that you have to have a revolution in America. In his coat pocket was the title of a sermon that he was going to preach the Sunday after he was murdered: "Why America May Go to Hell."
- Michael Eric Dyson
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
"I was within inches of leaving the Christian faith, because that faith as I had received it and learned it no longer explained the world to me satisfactorily."
"The emergence of theologies of liberation . . is probably the most significant theological development of recent years. At the heart of liberation theology is the attempt fundamentally to rethink theology from the standpoint of the poor and oppressed."
"This week Barack Obama was pressured to denounce Jeremiah Wright.
But in the hundred years following the end of the Civil War more than five thousand African Americans were lynched and not a single president denounced the atrocities."
"In the end, however, Jeremiah was the prophet of hope, and that note of hope is what attracts the multiclass membership at Trinity and significant television audiences. Both Jeremiahs gave the people work to do: to advance the missions of social justice and mercy that improve the lot of the suffering."
"Watch Martin Luther King in a 1960 'Meet the Press' interview discuss "the most segregated hour in America". Michael Dyson then ties that into the current Pastor Wright controversy."
Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. at Black Past
Jeremiah Wright (on right) as a Cardiopulmonary Technician
Attending President Lyndon Johnson During Surgery, 1966
On The Pope, Paternalism and Purifying The Savages
"This school of theology, which focuses on social justice and political activism for the poor, challenges people in high places, and views Jesus as liberator of the oppressed, is rejected by the Vatican.
In fact, Pope Benedict has devoted his career to eradicating liberation theology and its supporters, which he rejects as Marxist-inspired, and "a threat to the faith of the church."
If the concept of God has any validity or use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we get rid of Him
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