Is Reverend Jeremiah Wright a Relic of the Black Militant Epoch?
By Sherman N. Miller 3/15/2008 As I watched the disquieting videos of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr., retired Pastor Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, his caustic rhetoric sounded like something from so-called militant black leaders in the late 1960s and 1970s. This caustic speechifying appeared to be directed at making White America feel guilt and shame for yesteryear’s enslavement and total humiliation of Black Americans. More caustic the language was the more freedom that it suggested because such language might have gotten a black labeled as an uppity N—– and lynched in yesteryear. Senator Barack Obama was a child during the heyday of Reverend Wright’s caustic language. This caustic language may be music to the ears of some first generation blacks of the civil rights epoch for it suggests some black dignity in the economic mainstream. Obama was raised by white family members using the White American mindset that may not have included a daily dose of a defrocking of th
