Remember when Rev. Wright was making light of Bill Clinton’s infidelity to Hillary, saying he was treating black folks just like Monica and he was “ridin’ dirty?”
Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé.
When word of the unholy alliance got out, Payne’s husband dumped her, and she was canned from the plum job at Friendship-West Baptist Church, she told The Post.
“I was involved with Rev. Wright, and that’s why I lost my job and why my husband divorced me,” Payne said.
Now here’s an interesting point not made in the article. The church is headed by a “Wright protégé,” Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III.
Later in the article, you find this:
After discovering he had been cuckolded, Fred Payne, who had married Elizabeth in October 2006, headed straight for divorce court.
“I was downright mad about this bull- - - -,” said Fred, who said he is “in the oil and gas business,” belongs to a hunting club and makes his own bullets in his garage.
“People wouldn’t be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man.”
He added, “Rev. Haynes doesn’t like the interracial thing, either. This was quite an issue for him.”
So the student of Wright is against inter-racial relationships, the white woman in the inter-racial relationship is banned from church grounds, the church Wright built has a Black Value System and the sermon that inspired the title of Barack’s second book speaks of a “white man’s greed” running “a world in need.”
Barack Obama and the man who
calibrated his “moral compass” for 20 years.The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.” He began with a passage from the Book of Samuel—the story of Hannah, who, barren and taunted by her rivals, had wept and shaken in prayer before her God. The story reminded him, he said, of a sermon a fellow pastor had preached at a conference some years before, in which the pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope….
“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!”
And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate. The reverend spoke of the hardship that the congregation would face tomorrow, the pain of those far from the mountaintop, worrying about paying the light bill…
Listen to it from Barack himself.
Barack heard the sermon that day condemn the white man for the problems of black folks, heard him talk about Hiroshima, but we are to believe he never heard anything else in 20 years. We are to believe that Rev. Wright is not the Rev. Wright Barack knew. The sermon that inspired Obama doesn’t sound that different than the sermons that earned Rev. Wright a spot under Obama’s bus.
I’m probably just the typical white person, clinging to my Bible and my guns, but this makes me wonder what Obama really thinks about white people.
