Controversy of Obama's relationship with Rev. Wright is nothing new
The recent controversy over comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s former pastor in Chicago, is nothing new.
Wright’s scorching sermons suggesting a combative Afrocentrism and anti-Americanism were documented in articles going back more than a year.
An article in the Feb. 22, 2007 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine described the Trinity United Church of Christ as a “a leftover vision from the Sixties of what a black nationalist future might look like.” The article reports on a Sunday sermon given by the Rev. Wright in which he declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States : "Fact number one: We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he intones. "Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!"
And it was widely reported a year ago that Obama made a last-minute decision not to have Wright speak when he announced he would run for president.
In an interview with PBS’s “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly,” recorded just before Obama’s announcement last year, Wright said he warned the senator that their association could pose political problems , partly because of his history of supporting Palestinian causes.
