Was Wright right; does God hate America?
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was recently back in the news. The president of an organization wanted Wright’s help in obtaining government funding for African relief and earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Wright wrote back saying that he finds himself “toxic,” being “thrown under the bus.” He further stated: “No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them.” Following 9/11 2001, Wright told his congregation: 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.” And then his incendiary words: “The government gives (our children) the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ God bless America? No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.” This commen
