{"id":2107,"date":"2008-04-28T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2008-04-28T12:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T17:50:59","slug":"dont-miss-jeremiah-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/dont-miss-jeremiah-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"don’t miss Jeremiah Wright…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeremiah Wright just got through speaking at the National Press Club [watch it here<\/strong><\/a>]. I don’t know if it’s going to help Obama or hurt him. But it helped me. In the South, the black church is the best of things. It has always been a refuge for our Afro-Americans throughout our troubled history. It has been their government at times when they didn’t have one of their own. It was the repository for the parts of our Constitution that were not enforced ["all men are created equal"]. It was the nidus for the Civil Rights Movement that got things headed in the right direction. Jeremiah is no fool like those clips portrayed him. He’s just one of those fine black preachers that happened to be in Chicago instead of down here.<\/p>\n

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I actually disagree with Barak Obama that Wright’s message is dated, part of his history as a black man growing up in a segregated society. I think his message is still alive. So does he. The American experience is still different for black Americans than white Americans. If you go to Rush Limbaugh’s web site right now, you can find all the racism you’ll ever need to hear, or for that matter, a jillion other sites. Just because it’s not spoken out loud doesn’t mean it has gone away. It’s all over the place.<\/p>\n

And Jeremiah Wright isn’t going to shut up about it, not even for Obama. If it’s detrimental to Obama that Wright’s up on podiums being himself, that’s too bad because it’s the very racism Wright is talking about that will be the hurt. If people listen to Reverend Wright, they’ll hear the courage that came from Martin Luther King, and Andy Young, and John Lewis, and Medger Evers. They’ll hear the music that fueled the Civil Rights Movement and Elvis and Aretha. And they’ll hear the poetry that this African piece of the American story brought to our culture. This is not "little England" or "little Europe." This is "little World," AKA America, Land of the Free. Jeremiah Wright is one free man…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremiah Wright just got through speaking at the National Press Club [watch it here]. I don’t know if it’s going to help Obama or hurt him. But it helped me. In the South, the black church is the best of things. It has always been a refuge for our Afro-Americans throughout our troubled history. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}