and it appears he is no less the dumbass.
Controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright criticized fellow African Americans, including President Barack Obama, for believing and spreading “white, racist” American history instead of the truth about the black experience in America in a sermon Sunday in Washington, DC.
Speaking as a guest preacher at Florida Avenue Baptist Church’s 100thanniversary, Wright, who was a close friend of the Obamas until they left Wright’s church in 2008 after his infamous “God Damn America” sermonbecame a campaign issue, charged that Obama was passing on the “written down lie” in the United States Constitution that ‘We hold these truths self-evident that all men are created equal.’
The phrase, which is actually the first line of the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, was true at the time it was written only for white men, not all men, Wright professed.
Wright used the line as evidence of his overarching theme that white Americans are trying to force their version of history, which he referred to as his-story IE white males’ story, on African Americans.
“We’ve got to stop waiting on, depending on our enemies to tell our story to our children,” Wright said during his sermon Sunday.This is the man Barack Obama called his spiritual mentor.
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