Amen, Rev. Wright!

Laurie King-Irani writes with compassion and gratitude for Bill Moyers’ excellent interview of Reverend Wright on his PBS show, Bill Moyers’ Journal. This is a must watch show, as Reverend Wright contextualizes the vicious attacks on him and Obama, and discusses at lengths his experiences, the black church, and his liberation theology. The interview has already had a profound effect on people like Laurie, and judging by internet chatter, on many others as well.

Incidentally, Bill Moyers was President Lyndon Johnson’s press secretary and in the room when Marine Medic Jeremiah Wright was assisting in the president’s operation in 1966. Wright served two years in the Marine Corps and four years as a corpsman in the Navy. In the picture to the right, Wright is on the right, while Bill Moyers is in the background.

~ by admin on April 26, 2008.