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Wright Prophet, Wrong Direction

This is just to give visibility to Melissa Harris-Lacewell's opinion column at The Root on Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright has spent the last several days carefully placing himself within the prophetic tradition of African American religion. I attempted to place him in this same context here on The Root when I explained that he, like the biblical Jeremiah, is among the truth tellers who regularly warn the government that divine destruction is imminent if the nation continued to oppress the powerless.

Over the past few days Reverend Wright has reminded me of another biblical prophet: Jonah.

I believe Jeremiah Wright likes preaching to his own people, black people, embraced by the relative comfort of shared knowledge and practice within the African American church. I do not think he wanted to talk to white America or to try to bridge the painful, difficult often personally brutalizing racial divide. I believe that he has great and healing things to say to our nation, but that when called to do so he has resisted because he is angry about the evils of racism, imperialism, patriarchy and partisanship. - Link