Meet The (White) Man Who Inspired Wright's Controversial Sermon

"Meet the man who inspired Reverend Jeremiah Wright's now famous tirade about America's foreign policy inciting the terrorist attacks of September 11.

His name is Ambassador Edward Peck. And he is a retired, white, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy Carter -- hardly the black-rage image with which Wright has been stigmatized."

"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday," Wright declared. "He was on Fox News. This is a white man and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true: America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Link (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/meet-the-white-man-who-_n_92793.html)

I think we should pass a law that bans ambassadors from ever going on news shows, writing books, or in any way presenting themselves as an authority on anything. 99% of nothing more than rich doofs who have nothing better to do with their lives than donate lots of money to politicians and ask for an ambassadorship in return. They often have no experience in general, no foreign policy experience, and just make life miserable for everybody.

...there's another person who inspired Wrights and Pecks and many other people's 'tirades' about 9/11;

Online NewsHour: Bin Laden's Fatwa (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html)

He will tell you, exactly, what his problem is and what his solution is. There it is. Read it or don't. Agree with it or don't, but there it is. Osama and Muslims have their reasons and motivations and rationales.

There is nothing wrong taking exception with US foreign policy. Wrights transgression is putting more blame on the US than many think is fair. Assuming they've bothered to look into what the hell he is talking about.

I had a history teacher in 10th grade explain to us how we caused the Japanese to attack us Dec. 7, 1941. He explained how dependant they were on our oil and our steel and how, absent those natural resources and our support of their enemy, China, that the Japanese were pushed into a corner and had to go to war in their national interest.

Well, he was right in that we did support their enemies, some. We did cut of oil and steel.

That does not justify going to war with us and it was to their Imperial ruin.

Osama destroyed his own cause in the same way. His actions cemented our relationship with the Middle East, both in our presence and our support for corrupt regimes and our sometimes honest, sometimes not so honest broker role in the region.

Wright just happens to take the intellectually lazy viewpoint; it's always easy to criticize, as my teacher did, the bigger entity and completely excuse the actions of the other side.

His name is Ambassador Edward Peck.



"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday," Wright declared. "He was on Fox News. This is a white man and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true: America's chickens are coming home to roost."

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He may have used that interview as the basis for his sermon, but he ALSO intertwined the phrase "America's chickens are coming home to roost" , which was an alternative title to a speech given by Malcolm X. AND one of the most famous quotes of Malcolm X. duh. :rolleyes:

There is a lot of intertwined history between The Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology, etc. The machinations of the leftist media to try and defend this man's (Wright) positions is laughable. It's not like we can't reasearch things for ourselves. Oh, wait - only sheeple & lemmings don't reasearch.

Meet The (White) Man Who Inspired Wright's Controversial Sermon




...now you're trying to convince us the leading Democrat candidate's mentor and spiritual leader gets his theology from CNN. Oh, God, is he in a lot of trouble now.