In Defense of Rev. Wright

Stay with me here guys....


In one of his more controversial sermons, embattled Trinity United Church of Christ retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright said that God "d*mn" America line because "America is killing innocents" everyday and that government forces are still working to keep black enslaved. He has a point - but not in the way that he thinks he does....

America is killing innocents daily - approximately 126,000 (correction - that is a worldwide number - the actual number of US abortions is "only" 3700 a day - thanks to reader David H for the correction) innocent babies are murdered every day in utero in America's abortion clinics! Is that the sign of a blessed country? Many, myself included, would argue that it is not.

38% of African American families are indeed enslaved....trapped in a welfare system that encourages them to rely on a benevolent master to provide them with food, housing and other "necessities". The benevolent master in this case is a nanny government that demands that those who take "masters" largess surrender themselves to living in a manner that the "master" dictates. No you are not allowed to take a job to better yourself...if you do that, you lose your government check! For some people, that means that they don't have access to affordable daycare in order to go to work. In others, that means that they lose their "affordable" housing. How affordable is housing, if it can be taken away from you at the whim of a government bureaucrat somewhere (no the current credit crunch does not fit in here).

If Rev. Wright were really interested in enacting "social justice" as opposed to assuaging the guilt of his parishioners who somehow feel like they have "cheated" in order to get ahead, then he would be working for a systemic change in welfare laws that would allow for a plan to help people get to work and become productive citizens - to get them out of the slavery of welfare. If he really cared about the "slaughtered innocents" he would be working to close the abortion clinics in his neighborhood.

If Rev. Wright really cared about social justice....he'd be working for the McCain Campaign. Instead he is working for a candidate that proposes further enslavement of all Americans....enslavement to a government that wants to dictate what we eat, what doctors to see and when and how much profit "massa" makes off of our labors. Does that sound like justice to you?