What Uhler Wrote About the Rev. Wright Controversy

WHAT UHLER WROTE ABOUT THE REV. WRIGHT CONTROVERSY

Only by pulling Rev. Wright's comments out of context, could you believe the insidious warning: If Barack Obama "agreed with Wright…that would mean a racist and an anti-Semite would be president of the United States."

Moreover, were Americans to watch the actual sermon containing Rev. Wright's seemingly unpatriotic and inflammatory words, they would find that he was contrasting the unwavering love and justice of God against the immorality of governments - governments from the days of the Roman Empire to the present-day United States of America. What Christian would dispute that?

Thus, Rev. Wright talked about the injustices suffered by African-American slaves prior to Abraham Lincoln. Then, he added: "But I stop by to tell you tonight that governments change."

Rev. Wright then contrasted the good U.S governments of Harry Truman and Bill Clinton with the poor government of George W. Bush, but only to deliver his main point: "Where governments change, God doesn't change."

At that point, Rev. Wright asked his congregation to turn to Malachi 3:6, which reads: "For I am the Lord, and I change not." He then proceeded to interpret that passage as follows: "God was against slavery on yesterday, and God, who does not change, is still against slavery today. God was a God of love yesterday, and God who does not change is still a God of love today. God was a God of justice on yesterday, and God who does not change, is still a God of justice today."

Noting, "governments fail," Rev. Wright then proclaimed the failures of the Roman, British, Russian, Japanese and German empires -- before returning his attention to America's failures:

"And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian [Native American] descent, she failed. She put them on reservations."

"When it came to putting her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps."

"When it came to putting the citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters. Put them on auction blocks. Put them in cotton fields. Put them in inferior schools. Put them in substandard housing. Put them in scientific experiments. Put them in the lower paying jobs. Put them outside the equal protection of the law. Kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education, and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness."

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strike law and then wants us to sing God Bless America. Naw, naw, naw. Not God Bless America. God Damn America! That's in the Bible. For killing innocent people. God Damn America for treating us citizens as less than human. God Damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is Supreme."

"The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent."