Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr was born on September 22, 1941.  His father, Jeremiah Wright, Sr., was a Baptist minister who preached and taught at Grace Baptist Church in Germantown, Philadelphia from 1938 to 1980.  His mother’s name was Mary Henderson Wright.  Later in life, Jeremiah Wright, Jr. married a woman named Ramah Reed Wright, and he now has four daughters.

   Jeremiah Wright, Jr. is the pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, which is a megachurch, containing 10,000 members,  residing in Chicago, Illinois.  He began preaching there in 1972, and retired from being the senior pastor of that Church in 2008, after being there for 36 years.

  Trinity United Church of Christ is a very interesting and very different church.

  The Church’s 10 point visions are as follows:

1. A congregation committed to ADORATION.
2. A congregation preaching SALVATION.
3. A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
4. A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
5. A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
6. A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
7. A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
8. A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
9. A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.

  The church goes on to say this, “We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian… Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent.”

   The Church also believes, “W.E.B. DuBois indicated that the problem in the 20th century was going to be the problem of the color line.  He was absolutely correct.  Our job as servants of God is to address that problem and eradicate it in the name of Him who came for the whole world by calling all men, women, boys and girls to Christ.”

 Jeremiah Wright, Jr. who is pastor of this Church said this, “God Bless America, no, no, no.  But God damn America.”  I find it ineresting that Barack Obama was a member of this church since the 1980’s and had Jeremiah Wright Jr. preform his marriage ceremony.

   Brian Ross and Rehab El-Buri quoted Obama when he said this, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.”  Obama said, “Rev. Wright ‘is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.’”

   A member of Wright’s church said this, “He, Rev. Wright, has impacted the life of Barack Obama so much so that Obama wants to portray that feeling he got from Rev. Wright onto the country because we all need something positive.”

  Should a person who has been exposed to this kind of teachings be allowed to be president?  No matter what and how Obama tried to defend his participation with his former pastor, he was still influenced by Jeremiah Wright.

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