"White Man's Greed" The first Wright sermon Obama heard

On his radio show yesterday, Hugh Hewitt played excerpts of Barack Obama reading from his autobiography, Dreams of My Father. In one, Obama remembers a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright:

There entails a description which includes these words that Obama remembered and wrote in his book:

"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That's the world! On which hope sits."

Kaus concludes the following:

Sounds ... controversial! Keep in mind: a) Obama isn't disapproving of this sermon. In the book he weeps at the end of it; b) Demonstrating that at least some blaming of "white greed" for the world's sins--which Obama now criticizes-- isn't an exceptional topic for Rev. Wright in a few wacky sermons ("the five dumbest things") that Obama may or may not have missed. It's at the quotidian core of the Afrocentric philosophy that Obama says drew him to the church; c) Indeed, in his big March 18th race speech Obama reads the passage from his book that describes his emotional reaction to this very sermon (his "first service at Trinity")--how it made "the story of a people" seem "black and more than black." d) This is also the sermon that gave Obama the title of his next book, The Audacity of Hope. e) The "profound mistake" of this sermon is not that Wright "spoke as if our society was static"--Obama's analysis on Feb. 18th. The problem is that "white folks' greed" is not the main cause of a "world in need."

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(Quotidian - usual or customary, ordinary; commonplace, something recurring daily. - I had to look that one up).

Note: Bold words are from the article, not mine

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NOTE: On-Topic: Passages from the book "Dreams of my Father" by Barack Obama about this event or other reports of this event/ Off-Topic: Everything else. This article is not open season on Rev Wright or Barack Obama or any other candidate, nor is it a literary critique of the book. Please make comments substantive - things like "I knew it ...", etc. will just make anyone appear simple

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