I note you left no URL, a phony e-mail address, and a dog identicon. I’ll drop everything and answer you.

They can not defend the words that Wright has said, such as the US Goverment invented aids to kill off black people! To me that was a racist statement from Wright and also an anti-American comment!

I read several definitions of racism from different sources. They included:

*the belief that one’s race is superior and other races are inferior
*unjust discrimination against other people because they belong to a different race
*practices designed to keep a particular race dominant over other races in a particular society

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I note that neither Wright nor you nor his other supporters have defended the actual words he said.

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I realize that Wright and most other African Americans are frustrated. I don’t blame them. But it doesn’t mean that they can claim absurd things or call for God’s damnation of our country. If they curse our country in one breath, they had better not demand benefits from her in the next. While Jeremiah Wright sits in his mansion for the rest of his earthly days, he can rail against America all he wants, but it won’t change the fact that he would not be in that mansion if things were as bad as he has claimed.

When I said out of context, I meant both the context of his sermon and the larger context of the historically black church.

You say your ancestors fought for abolition. Great. But slavery was a result of racism. And racism didn’t die out with abolition. racism is with us today. Systemic racism. Racism is so ingrained in the white American psyche that we don’t know it’s there.

What you hear in Wright’s voice is frustration not hatred.

“I don’t understand how “context” lessens the impact. . .”

II don’t understand how “context” lessons the impact of what Wright said. If you can enlighten me, I’d be glad to hear it. I think you mean the cultural and historical context, which means very little to me. It would be like my hating modern-day Congregationalists because their Puritan ancestors persecuted my Quaker and Baptist relatives, one of whom had an ear cut off and two others were martyred in their old age.

If you mean the context of the sermons, that only helps a little. I don’t know how to contextualize “God d–n America” in any way that would make it good. I actually heard much of that particular sermon–not just the soundbite. I don’t know how to contextualize Wright’s contention that the USA’s white government infected people with AIDS or distributed drugs to them. I don’t know how to contextualize his calling the United States the US of KKK A. My ancestors fought for abolition–some of them literally fought during the Civil War. He’s lumping in the people who opposed slavery with those who practiced it, and that offends me.

I’m against racism. I’m against black on black racism that I saw in Africa and the white on white racism that goes on in Europe. I’m against white on black racism that I’ve seen during my years in the South. And I’m against the black on white racism that I hear in the words of Jeremiah Wright.

Not all black pastors and churches with black people in them are historically black. Even Wright’s denomination isn’t historically black.

If you want to understand the context of Wright’s comments ask a preacher of a historically black church, such as the ones in this article. If you want a different opinion, ask someone else.

No one is trying to pretend all blacks think alike. Name anything, and someone believes it.

You and your sources also imply that all black churches promote Black Liberation theology. Far from it.

Please read what black pastor Henry R. Jackson wrote:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2008/05/05/the_way_that_seems_wright