Jeremiah Wright

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Jeremiah Wright with President Bill Clinton (1998)

Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (born September 22, 1941 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is a former pastor of the "Trinity United Church of Christ " (TUCC), a large church in Chicago , Illinois with over 10,000 members.

Career

Wright attended Virginia Union University in Richmond from 1959 to 1961 .

In 1961, Wright left college, joined the United States Marine Corps (USMC), and became part of the Second Division with the rank of Corporal. In 1963, after two years of service, he was transferred to the Navy and attended medical school, which he left as the best of his class and with an academic degree. After completing his services at the medical school, he completed an apprenticeship as a cardiopulmonary medical-technical assistant at another naval military school specializing in medicine. Wright was assigned to the medical team charged with maintaining the health of President Lyndon B. Johnson . By the time Wright resigned in 1967, the White House had already issued him three letters of praise.

In 1967 Wright enrolled at Howard University in Washington, DC and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English over the next two years, 1968 and 1969. He also received a Masters from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Wright earned a PhD in theology in 1990.

In early 2008, Wright retired after 36 years serving as senior pastor in his ward.

Controversy

Wright's style of preaching and the content of some of his sermons were viewed critically by the media in connection with the then presidential candidate Barack Obama because of the content that was partly controversial.

Obama spoke in his speech in Philadelphia “A More Perfect Union” on this subject and made it clear that Wright's representation in the media only represented a small part of his political opinion and therefore a distorted image of the public. One of Wright's most controversial utterances is “God damn America”. Wright himself specified his statement several times by saying that he meant American policy or the government that was responsible for this policy. He expressly ruled out that he meant the American people.

On June 10, 2009, Virginia's Daily Press asked him if he had spoken to Obama since he became president, to which he replied, "They Jews ain't gonna let him talk to me." “They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do. " (In German, for example: “These Jews won't let him talk to me.” “They won't let him talk to someone who calls things by their names ... I said from the start: He is a politician; I am a pastor . He has to do what politicians do. ").

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from April 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com//watch?v=RfDeRY7IgcQ ( Memento from September 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Jeremiah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, USA