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"Why people are not a priority. Why poor are not seen as people. but rather as a liability for health care."
"If I help the hungry in the world, they call me a saint. If I ask why are there hungry folks, they will call me a communist."
He spoke of " a 5 to 7% incarceration of black men, a country where 2,000 juveniles are serving life without parole" - that this could be considered to be going on in the basement of the white house.
Listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright once he reached the fiery peak of his preaching about the horrors and human degradation, which Monthly Review has been a leading source of combative scholarship, the comparison with Martin Luther King Jr. thundering during his 1967 "Beyond Vietnam" address in New York was beautifully obvious. Both men base condemnation of violence on love.
When commercial media pilloried Jeremiah Wright, injecting him into the Obama presidential campaign as a controversial mainstream embarrassment, they inadvertently gave the antiwar movement a thrilling new charismatic leader by making him into a national figure.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is well prepared, presently well positioned by circumstances and superbly capable of picking up where MLKjr left off.
As Noam Chomsky points out, there is a lot more awareness today. Today, Rev. Wright might be further along in understanding the nature of the beast than King was when he was cut down. Martin Luther King had come to the conclusion that we had to connect with everyone everywhere suffering "predatory capitalism and imperialist wars" only in the last year of his life.
Even so, King is still ahead of too many of us even forty-two years later. In the same speech in which King cried out "my country is "the greatest purveyor of violence," he preface that belated outspokenness with a criticism that included himself, "A time comes when silence is betrayal." King confessed that time had already past a long time before.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is in tune with, and abreast of where King left off, namely, condemning the murderous contemptible deeds of America in a loud voice. Most of the rest of us have to catch up with both King and Wright. (Has Rev. King been turning over in his grave as we allow Vietnam Veterans to be called heroes?)
We caught up to Rev. Wright as he was signing autographs, we told him we wanted to work for him. He looked us in the eye and smiled -seemingly in appreciation and approval.
Veterans For Peace and every peace promoting organization ought to get behind this dynamic preacher dedicated to peace to whom the war mongering entertainment/news media cartel has unintentionally given celebrity status.
We can nurture the spread of his fearlessly outspoken denunciations of American crimes and his calls for morality and love in a changing world, and get Wright's ethical demands back into public consciousness.
Readers who feel the same way about wanting him following in Martin Luther King's footsteps and leading us in doing so, can contact this author. And together we'll send our support and encouragement to Rev Jeremiah.
(Obama needn't be concerned to have a modern version of Martin Luther King Jr. continue condemning U.S. homicide. Might make it more possible for Obama to earn his Nobel Peace Prize.)
Let everyone you can know that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the spokesperson of our conscience.
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