Selected Quotes from Others in the Wright - TUCC Bulletins

Part of the May 5, 2008 series – “The Obamas and the TUCC Bulletins,” the point of which is that the claims by Barack and Michelle Obama that they have not been aware of the objectionable beliefs of their pastor and of his theology for the 20 years they have been church members are greatly lacking in credibility.

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M. Linda Jaramille, Executive Director, National UCC’s Witness for Justice; November 25, 2007, on the Southern California fires:

“Caught in the firestorm of racism” — On the Southern California fires: “In the midst of the physical fires, I was reminded of the firestorm of racism erupting as immigration debates continue.”

…. “The firestorm on the U.S. border is more than an inferno of flames.” ….

“Thankfully, the fires in Southern California are subsiding, but the firestorm of racism is far from over.”

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Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney Pastor Emeritus Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle Washington; March 23, 2008:

when we look at the story of our people through the eyes of the resurrection of the Christ, again, in the words of Dr. Jones, “we are a resurrection people.”

Given all to which we have been subjected as a people, we should be extinct. We have been subjected to forced deportation from our homeland, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, separate and unequal institutional policies, racism and unfair administration of justice in this land—which our ancestors built. However, we have not been overcome by the injustices to which we have been subjected. African people in America are a “resurrection people.”

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Kanye West, quoted in Reginald Williams’s “Thought for the Week” in his “To Do Justice” section of the September 18 and 25, 2005 bulletins:

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

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James Baldwin, quoted in Reginald Williams’s “Thought for the Week” in his “To Do Justice” section of the December 17, 2006 bulletin:

All the western nations have been caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism.

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Sojourner Truth, quoted in Reginald Williams’s “Thought for the Week” in his “To Do Justice” section of the November 6, 2005 bulletin:

“There is a debt to the negro people which America can never repay. At least then, they must make amends.”