This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up.
Had I heard them in church, I would have expressed that concern directly to Reverend Wright.
Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask?
Obama was all but given a pass about Reverend Wright and, as the recent video shows, his knowledge and praise of Wright.
Focus on the economy and not on Super PACs that go off on extraneous issues like Reverend Wright will also serve him well.
And you know, this introduction has now been tainted or changed by these incendiary comments by Reverend Wright, which I'm sure were taken out of context.
And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright.
That Obama really believes in Reverend Wright's more inflammatory rhetoric.
We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated bias.
The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour of American life occurs on Sunday morning.
We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.
What he ended up saying was many, many things, both about Reverend Wright, about the Trinity United Church of Christ, but also about the sense of race, and anger, and the flawed and beautiful institutions by which we have to try to heal generations of wounds in this country.
And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television sets and YouTube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way.
Barack Obama's minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has been removed from his honorary place on the candidate's African-American religious leadership.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright has been speaking out in the past several days, and standing by many of his inflammatory comments.
Obama's aides say he will address the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor at the Trinity Unity Church of Christ, in Chicago.
He called a news conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and he denounced the Reverend Jeremiah Wright for his characterizations of government and race relations.
Unlike Barack Obama, who never publicly endorsed or discussed the views of Reverend Jeremiah Wright until he was called upon to reject Wright following the massive effort to tie the men together, Governor Romney has been open, obvious and gushing in his praise of Dr. Willke.
But Martin Marty, who taught Wright 35 years ago, says scrutiny of the reverend's incendiary moments fails to account for all the work Trinity Church has done for one of Chicago's roughest neighborhoods.
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