100 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographydevote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of
embittered children across the globe—children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa,
Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and within our own shores.^21
This is terrorism as a purely spontaneous sociological phenomenon, the direct reaction to
economic issues, without the intervention of intelligence agencies. I have provided an exhaustive
refutation of this point of view in my 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA (2005 ff.)
WRIGHT: “I’M A BAD MAMMA JAMMA!”
Even the left liberals at the New Yorker were uneasy with some of Wright’s more incendiary
positions, no doubt because they represented a threat that the Perfect Master might be unmasked:
Wright, who drives a Porsche and references Bernie Mac and Terry McMillan in his unorthodox
sermons (“Take what God gave you and say, ‘In your face, mediocrity, I’m a bad mamma
jamma!’”).... Wright preached. Wright espouses a theology that seeks to reconcile African-
American Christianity with, as he has written, “the raw data of our racist existence in this strange
land.” The historical accuracy of that claim is incontestable. But his message is more
confrontational than may be palatable to some white voters. In his book Africans Who Shaped Our
Faith —an extended refutation of the Western Christianity that gave rise to “the European Jesus...
the blesser of the slave trade, the defender of racism and apartheid”—he says, “In this country,
racism is as natural as motherhood, apple pie, and the fourth of July. Many black people have been
deluded into thinking that our BMWs, Lexuses, Porsches, Benzes, titles, heavily mortgaged condos
and living environments can influence people who are fundamentally immoral.” In portraying
America as “a Eurocentric wasteland of lily-white lies and outright distortions,” Wright
promulgates a theory of congenital separatism that is deeply at odds with Obama’s professed belief
in the possibilities of unity and change. (New Yorker, March 11, 2008)
Obama had warned Wright to stay away from his pseudo-Lincolnesque announcement of his
campaign in early 2007, but that had not been enough for the egomaniac Wright, it seemed. Asked
about the incident almost a year before the Wright scandal blew up in grand style, the Obama
campaign stated: ‘“Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church.” In March 2007, Wright
commented in an interview that his own family and some close associates were angry about the
canceled address, for which they blamed Obama’s campaign advisers, but that the situation was
“not irreparable.” The haughty and vindictive Wright added menacingly: “Several things need to
happen to fix it.” When asked if he and Mr. Wright had settled this quarrel, Obama said: “Those are
conversations between me and my pastor.” “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to
publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally,
and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”’ (“A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for
Faith,” New York Times, April 30, 2007)
Wright, in his moments of lucidity, was aware of himself as a violently controversial figure.
Wright told The New York Times in a March 6, 2007 interview: “When his [Obama’s] enemies find
out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli,” with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to visit Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”
Note that for Wright, all political categories are racial and racist categories. Nevertheless, in a
March 2008 campaign appearance, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually
particularly controversial.” This argued for very poor judgment indeed, since Wright was about to
become a huge obstacle to Obama’s presidential power grab.