I'm interested in Chicagoans feedback on the differences between the Apostolic Church of God with its pastor Bishop Arthur Brazier (now I think it's his son Byron) and Trinity United Church of Christ with its pastor, the now famous Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
I'm interested because Brazier was the one to organize a group of black pastors to support Obama right in the midst of the Wright controversy. They didn't outright "denounce" Wright but they did claim to want to show that Wright's comments did not represent the black church and illustrate that the black church is not monolithic. (I guess we can't use the term "the black church" anymore... more like black churches). Here's the exact quote from Brazier: "The black church was unfortunately brought into this, but the black church has nothing to do with this... This has to do with one man and the things that he said. We felt that we had to make a statement along those lines so that people do not feel that the black church was somehow injured by what's going on... Every African-American I know is concerned... We are concerned that this controversy arose at a most crucial time... I don't want to crucify Rev. Wright, but his comments were unfortunate".
One blog commenter said: "I feel bad for Jeremiah Wright - and for the loss of a more sincere dialog about civil rights Obama could have brought. Apostolic is a Pentecostal church, a more jesus-freaky and less civil-rightsy than Trinity United Church of Christ."
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wow. i thought he would go with a more progressive, green, mixed race church. instead he went pentecostal. I guess so that he can align himself with the religious right a bit more.
.... never really ultimately know in detail, how anyone gets down spiritually/religiously. check this link out:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/castingstones/2008/06/barack-obamas-hindu-lucky-char.html
at the end of the day, as malcolm x would speak on it, in essence "a mans spirituality is his personal business." by any means necessary (speeches)
I dig Rev Wright tho and think its very unfortunate that he is no longer fully embraced by Obama & some blk churches (cant speak for all churches, just them scurred ones;) especially during these times… so much compromise, I question how much limbs must be cut off before there is nothing left to even walk w/ long standing dignity after this race.
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