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Pastor Jeremiah Wright's racially charged invective cloud Barack Obama campaign
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Mar 14, 2008 04:32pm |
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| News Date | Friday, March 14, 2008 10:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (UK) The Times.
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"Barack Obama was under pressure today to sever links with his former pastor who has made racially charged attacks on Hillary Clinton and suggested the terrorism of 9/11 showed that “America's chickens are coming home to roost”.
The incendiary language and black liberationist theology of the Rev Jeremiah Wright, who retired from Mr Obama's Chicago church last month, has previously flickered only as an issue in the presidential race.
In the past 48 hours, however, after a week in which both Democratic candidates have had to jettison supporters for making controversial statements, Mr Wright has emerged as a significant problem for Mr Obama.
TV news networks have constantly replayed sermons in which the pastor, who married Mr Obama and baptised his children, denounces the United States as a racist, “US of KKK-A”.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, he 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.”
In another sermon he said the Government “wants us to sing God Bless America” despite treating black people as second-class citizens. “No, no, no,” said Mr Wright, “God damn America!”
More recently, he has said that Mr Obama “knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people — Hillary would never know that, Hillary ain't never been called a nigger.”
Mr Obama's campaign failed to answer questions today about whether Mr Wright was still a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee.
Instead, it issued a statement, saying: “Senator Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a |
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