FINALLY, somebody has done their job and now we know the proper context
of Wright's comments on 9/11 - Long AFTER the damage has been done of
course... and shock of all shocks, those shameless, classless idiots
[Hannity, O'Stupid, Gibson et. al.] at that garbage can of an outfit
that is FOXnews is sitting right in the middle of it!!!
Let's see how they and the other the media cover the REST of the story.
Tell it all.
[btw, Roland S. Smith was out in front on this.]
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The full story behind Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9/11=A0sermon
by Roland S. Martin
March 21, 2008
CNN.com
Editor's note: CNN Contributor Roland Martin has listened to several of
the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Trinity United Church of Christ
in Chicago. ****tions of the sermons have been excerpted in recent
stories.
As this whole sordid episode regarding the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright has played out over the last week, I wanted to understand what he
ACTUALLY said in this speech. I've been saying all week on CNN that
context is im****tant, and I just wanted to know what the heck is going
on.
I have now actually listened to the sermon Rev. Wright gave after
September 11 titled, "The Day of Jerusalem's Fall." It was delivered on
Sept. 16, 2001.
One of the most controversial statements in this sermon was when he
mentioned ''chickens coming home to roost.'=9D' He was actually quoting
Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of
President Reagan's terrorism task force, who was speaking on FOX News.
That's what he told the congregation.
He was quoting Peck as saying that America's foreign policy has put the
nation in peril:
"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday did anybody else see
or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was
upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, a white
man, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was
silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, he said Americas chickens,
are coming home to roost." =9D
"We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache,
Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism.
"We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and
kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.
"We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military
personnel.
"We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers
and killed unarmed teenage and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard
working fathers.
"We bombed Qaddafi's home, and killed his child. Blessed are they who
bash your children's head against the rock.
"We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We
bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy,
killed hundreds of hard working people, mothers and fathers who left
home to go that day not knowing that they'd never get back home."
"We bombed Hiro****ma. We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the
thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.
"Kids playing in the playground. Mothers picking up children after
school. Civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by
day.
"We have sup****ted state terrorism against the Palestinians and black
South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have
done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens are coming home to roost.
"Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets
terrorism. A white ambassador said that y=E2'all, not a black militant.
Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are
wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this
dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said
the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have.
But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands
with them. And we need to come to grips with that."
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He went on to describe seeing the photos of the aftermath of 9/11
because he was in Newark, N.J., when the planes struck. After turning on
the TV and seeing the second plane slam into one of the twin towers, he
spoke passionately about what if you never got a chance to say hello to
your family again.
"What is the state of your family?"=9D he asked.
And then he told his congregation that he loved them and asked the
church to tell each other they loved themselves.
His sermon thesis:
1. This is a time for self-examination of ourselves and our families.
2. This is a time for social transformation (then he went on to say they
won't put me on PBS or national cable for what I'm about to say. Talk
about prophetic!)
"We have got to change the way we have been doing things as a society,"
he said.
Wright then said we can't stop messing over people and thinking they
can't touch us. He said we may need to declare war on racism, injustice,
and greed, instead of war on other countries.
"Maybe we need to declare war on AIDS. In five minutes the Congress
found $40 billion to rebuild New York and the families that died in
sudden death, do you think we can find the money to make medicine
available for people who are dying a slow death? Maybe we need to
declare war on the nation's healthcare system that leaves the nation's
poor with no health coverage? Maybe we need to declare war on the
mishandled educational system and provide quality education for
everybody, every citizen, based on their ability to learn, not their
ability to pay. This is a time for social transformation."
3. This is time to tell God thank you for all that he has provided and
that he gave him and others another chance to do His will.
By the way, nowhere in this sermon did he said "God damn America."=9D
I'm not sure which sermon that came from.
This doesn't explain anything away, nor does it absolve Wright of using
the N-word, but what it does do is add an accurate perspective to this
conversation.
The point that I have always made as a journalist is that our job is to
seek the truth, and not the partial truth.
I am also listening to the other sermons delivered by Rev. Wright that
have been the subject of controversy.
And let me be clear: Where I believe he was wrong and not justified in
what he said based upon the facts, I will say so. But where the facts
sup****t his argument, that will also be said.
So stay tuned.
[THANK YOU Roland!!!]
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