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Wright, pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, delivered a scholarly but humorous address on "The Bible, Race and American History" during a panel discussion at Kingdom Life Christian Church sponsored by the Theological Education Institute of Hartford.
During questions after his talk, Wright lamented the controversy last spring during which short segments of his sermons were endlessly replayed on cable news shows, eventually leading to Obama repudiating his pastor and announcing that he was leaving Trinity Church. In those statements Wright said that America should be called "US of KKKA" and encouraged African Americans to say not "God Bless America," but instead "God Damn America."
"The world doesn't know about my 41 years of ministry, or my writing of books, because it was all taken down to a 10-second sound bite that the media chose to show about a sermon that was delivered seven years ago," Wright said. "The media didn't care about the whole sermon and what it was about. They just used those 10 seconds and used it as a weapon of mass destruction against [Obama's] campaign."
Wright's talk, replete with detailed references to theology books and quotes from Scripture, was rife with the kind of quotes that, quoted alone, could generate controversy. But understood in the larger context of Wright's talk, the statements did not seem controversial and frequently elicited laughter from Wright's mostly white audience of several hundred.
- I didn't think he was very controversial... I am tired of all this extreme empty patriotismSigDesign
- I still have reservations about Obama's relationship with someone that crazy********