“White Man’s Greed” The first Wright sermon Obama heard

Obama’s very first service at Wright’s church was … controversial.

On his radio show yesterday, Hugh Hewitt played excerpts of Barack Obama reading from his autobiography, Dreams of My Father. In one, Obama remembers a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright:

There entails a description which includes these words that Obama remembered and wrote in his book:

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.”

Read more here

http://www.slate.com/id/2187358/

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