Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. (born September 22, 1941) is a
pastor
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of
Trinity United Church of Christ
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in
Chicago
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, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners.
Following retirement, his beliefs and preaching were
scrutinized when segments of his sermons about
terrorist attacks on the United States and government dishonesty were publicized in connection with the
2008 presidential campaign of
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...
.
Early years
Wright was born on September 22, 1941. He was born and raised in the racially mixed area of
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,
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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.
His parents were Jeremiah Wright Sr. (1909–2001), a
Baptist
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minister who pastored Grace Baptist Church in Germantown from 1938 to 1980, and Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright, a school teacher who was the first black person to teach an academic subject at Roosevelt Junior High. She went on to be the first black person to teach at
Germantown High and
Girls High, where she became the school's first black vice principal.
Wright graduated from
Central High School of Philadelphia in 1959, among the best schools in the area at the time.
At the time, the school was around 90 percent white. The 211th class yearbook described Wright as a respected member of the class. "Always ready with a kind word, Jerry is one of the most congenial members of the 211," the yearbook said. "His record in Central is a model for lower class
oungermembers to emulate."
Education and military service
From 1959 to 1961, Wright attended
Virginia Union University
Virginia Union University is a private historically black Baptist university in Richmond, Virginia. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA.
History
The American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) founded the school as Rich ...
,
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''Trinity United Church of Christ'' in
Richmond
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and is a member of
Omega Psi Phi
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fraternity, Zeta chapter. In 1961 Wright left college and joined the
United States Marine Corps
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and became part of the
2nd Marine Division attaining the rank of
private first class
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. In 1963, after two years of service, Wright joined the
United States Navy
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and entered the
Corpsman School at the
Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
Wright was then trained as a
cardiopulmonary technician at the
National Naval Medical Center in
Bethesda, Maryland
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. Wright was assigned as part of the medical team charged with care of
President
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Lyndon B. Johnson (see photo of Wright caring for Johnson after his 1966 surgery). Before leaving the position in 1967, the
White House Physician, Vice Admiral Burkley, personally wrote Wright a letter of thanks on behalf of the United States President.
In 1967 Wright enrolled at
Howard University
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in Washington, DC, where he earned a
bachelor's degree
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in 1968 and a
master's degree
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English
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in 1969. He also earned a
master's degree
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University of Chicago Divinity School
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.
Wright holds a
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degree (1990) from the
United Theological Seminary in
Dayton, Ohio
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, where he studied under
Samuel DeWitt Proctor, a mentor to
Martin Luther King Jr.
Wright and his wife Ramah Reed Wright have four daughters, Janet Marie Moore, Jeri Lynne Wright, Nikol D. Reed, and Jamila Nandi Wright, and one son, Nathan D. Reed.
Career as minister
Wright became pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago on March 1, 1971; it had some 250 members on its rolls, but only about 90 or so were actually attending worship by that time. By March 2008 Trinity United Church of Christ had become the largest church in the mostly white
United Church of Christ
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denomination. The President and General Minister of the United Church of Christ, John H. Thomas, has stated: "It is critical that all of us express our gratitude and support to this remarkable congregation, to Jeremiah A. Wright for his leadership over 36 years."
Thomas, who is a member of the Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in
Cleveland
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, has also preached
and worshipped at Trinity United Church of Christ (most recently on March 2, 2008).
Trinity and Wright were profiled by correspondent
Roger Wilkins
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in Sherry Jones's documentary ''Keeping the Faith'' broadcast as the June 16, 1987, episode of the
PBS series ''
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with
Judy Woodruff''.
In 1995, Wright was asked to deliver a prayer during an afternoon session of speeches at the
Million Man March in Washington, DC.
Wright, who began the "Ministers in Training" program at Trinity United Church of Christ, has been a national leader in promoting
theological
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education and the preparation of seminarians for the African-American church. The church's mission statement is based upon systematized
black theology
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that started with the works of
James Hal Cone.
Wright has been a professor at
Chicago Theological Seminary,
Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, and other educational institutions. Wright has served on the Board of Trustees of
Virginia Union University
Virginia Union University is a private historically black Baptist university in Richmond, Virginia. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA.
History
The American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) founded the school as Rich ...
, Chicago Theological Seminary and
City Colleges of Chicago
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The City Colleges system ...
. He has also served on the Board Directors of Evangelical Health Systems, the Black Theology Project, the Center for New Horizons and the Malcolm X School of Nursing, and on boards and committees of other religious and civic organizations.
Wright attended a lecture by Frederick G. Sampson in
Richmond, Virginia
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, in the late 1980s, on the
G. F. Watts painting ''
Hope
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'', which inspired him to give a sermon in 1990 based on the subject of the painting – "with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God.... To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope... that's the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt's painting." Having attended Wright's sermon,
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...
later adapted Wright's phrase "audacity ''to'' hope" to "audacity ''of'' hope" which became the title for his
2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, and the title of his
second book
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.
Controversies
Wright, who was Barack Obama's former pastor, gained national attention in March 2008 when
ABC News
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, after reviewing dozens of Wright's sermons,
[Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11](_blank)
Brian Ross and Rehab el-Buri, ''ABC News'', March 13, 2008 excerpted parts which were subject to intense media scrutiny.
Obama denounced the statements in question, but after critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright he gave a speech titled "
A More Perfect Union", in which he denounced Wright's remarks, but did not disown him as a person. The controversy began to fade, but was renewed in late April when Wright made a series of media appearances, including an interview on ''
Bill Moyers Journal
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'', a speech at the
NAACP
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and a speech at the
National Press Club
Organizations
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.
["Listening to Rev. Wright" ''OnPoint, 29 April 2008.] After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church.
Nearly 5 months after the latest
Israeli invasion of Gaza resulting in heavy casualties, on June 9, 2009, in an interview with the ''
Daily Press of Newport News'', Wright indicated that he had no contact with Obama up to that point because "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a
lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office." Wright also suggested that Obama did not send a delegation to the
Durban Review Conference in
Geneva
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on racism because of Zionist pressure saying: "
e Jewish vote, the
A-I-P-A-C vote, that's controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Durban Review Conference, that's talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is."
Writing for ''
The Atlantic
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'',
Ta-Nehisi Coates characterized Wright's remarks as "crude conspiratorial
antisemitism
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Antis ...
." On June 11, 2009, Wright amended his remarks during an interview with Mark Thompson on his radio program, ''Make it Plain.'' "Let me say like
Hillary, I misspoke. Let me just say:
Zionists
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... I’m not talking about all Jews, all people of
the Jewish faith, I’m talking about Zionists."
Wright wrote on his
Facebook
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page apologizing for his remarks on June 12, 2009. He wrote, "I mis-spoke and I sincerely meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama administration... I have great respect for the Jewish faith and the foundational (and central) part of our Judeo-Christian tradition." "In other words",
Jeffrey Goldberg
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inferred, also in ''The Atlantic'', "he regrets speaking plainly instead of deploying a euphemism." The pro-Israel
Anti-Defamation League
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released a statement condemning Wright's remarks as "inflammatory and false. The notions of Jewish control of the
White House
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in Reverend Wright's statement express classic anti-Semitism in its most vile form."
In June 2011, in a speech at Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, Wright called the
State of Israel
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"
illegal" and "
genocidal
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" and insisted, "To equate
Judaism
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with the state of Israel is to equate Christianity with
apper Flavor Flav."
Retirement
Wright retired as pastor from Trinity United Church of Christ in early 2008. Over the course of his tenure, he brought the church's membership from 87 in 1972 to over 8,000 parishioners.
[Jennifer O'Shea. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Jeremiah Wright. ''U.S. News & World Report''] Trinity United purchased a lot in
Tinley Park
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, a predominantly white Chicago suburb, and built Wright a home valued at $1.6 million.
In September 2016, Wright suffered a stroke which paralyzed the left side of his body and left him confined to a wheelchair; despite the effect on his voice, Wright continues to give sermons on certain occasions.
Honors
Wright has received a
Rockefeller Fellowship
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and seven
honorary doctorate
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degrees, including from
Colgate University
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,
Lincoln University (in Pennsylvania),
Valparaiso University,
United Theological Seminary, Chicago Theological Seminary, and
Starr King School for the Ministry.
Wright was named one of ''
Ebony
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'' magazine's top 15 preachers.
He was also awarded the first Carver Medal by
Simpson College in January 2008, to recognize Wright as "an outstanding individual whose life exemplifies the commitment and vision of the service of
George Washington Carver
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". On May 1, 2008,
Northwestern University
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Charte ...
withdrew its invitation for him to receive an honorary doctorate in light of the controversy over his recent remarks.
Works
* Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., "Music as Cultural Expression in Black Church Theology and Worship", ''Journal of Black Sacred Music'' 3, 1 (1; Spring 1989).
* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr. and Jini Kilgore Ross, ''What Makes You So Strong?: Sermons of Joy and Strength from Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'', Judson Press, November 1993,
* Jawanza Kunjufu and Jeremiah Wright Jr., ''Adam! Where Are You?: Why Most Black Men Don't Go to Church'', African American Images, 1997, (also African American Images, 1994, )
* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr. and Colleen Birchett, ''Africans Who Shaped Our Faith (Student Book and Leader Guide)'', Urban Ministries, Inc., 1995,
* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr. and Jini Kilgore Ross, ''Good News!: Sermons of Hope for Today's Families'', Judson Press, 1995,
* William J. Key, Robert Johnson Smith, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and Robert Johnson-Smith, ''From One Brother to Another: Voices of African American Men'', Judson Press, 1996,
* Frank Madison Reid III, Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Colleen Birchett, ''When Black Men Stand Up for God: Reflections on the Million Man March'', African American Images, 1997,
* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr., ''What Can Happen When We Pray: A Daily Devotional'',
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002,
* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr., ''From One Brother To Another, Volume 2: Voices of African American Men '', Judson Press, 2003,
* Wright, Jeremiah A Jr. (2004), "Doing black theology in the black church", pp. 13–23, 213–214. In Linda E. Thomas (Ed.), ''Living Stones in the Household of God: The Legacy and Future of Black Theology'', Minneapolis: Fortress.
* Wright, Jeremiah. "Here I am, send me". In ''Awakened to a calling: reflections on the vocation of ministry'', Ann M. Svennungsen and Melissa Wiginton (Eds.), Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.
* Wright, Jeremiah. "In the Lord's house, on the Lord's day". In ''Awakened to a calling: reflections on the vocation of ministry'', Ann M. Svennungsen and Melissa Wiginton (Eds.), Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.
* Iva E. Carruthers (Editor), Frederick D. Haynes III (Editor), Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. (Editor), ''Blow the Trumpet in Zion!: Global Vision and Action for the 21st Century Black Church'', Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2005,
* Ernest R. Flores and Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., ''Tempted to Leave the Cross: Renewing the Call to Discipleship'', Judson Press 2007,
Wright has written several books and is featured on
Wynton Marsalis
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's album ''
The Majesty of the Blues'', where he recites a spoken word piece written by
Stanley Crouch, and on the
Odyssey Channel
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Due to the CSA (Content Sh ...
series ''Great Preachers''.
Great Preachers: Jeremiah Wright (1998)
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References
External links
Biography
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Illinois legislature resolution
congratulating Wright on his retirement
*Von Hoene Jr., William A.
Rev. Wright in a different light"
''Chicago Tribune'', 26 March 2008.
''PBS'', April 25, 2008, interview
Black Liberation Theology and Rev. Jeremiah Wright
interview with Dwight Hopkins, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, ''BeliefNet
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'', May 2008
Jeremiah Wright's Service to 3 Presidents
photographs and newspaper articles
Wright's blog
at RH Reality Check (one post, February 7, 2008, on HIV/AIDS)
"The Invisible Giant: the Black Church since World War II"
Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections
;Sermons
Wright sermons
at the official channel of Trinity United Church of Christ on YouTube
Audio of complete sermon by Wright from which the soundbite on 9/11 was excerpted.
Audio of complete sermon by Wright from which soundbite "God damn America" was excerpted.
''The Audacity to Hope''
sermon from which the title of Barack Obama's book, ''The Audacity of Hope'', is derived.
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