by-P. BANNEKER HATCHERSON- Pastor at 23rd Street Baptist Church South- Birmingham, Ala., (Birmingham News)
excerpt 3/23/2008The recent and ongoing parley over a few "sound bites" of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, demonstrates afresh the wide gulf existing between the black community and the white community.
Wright is and has been one of my favorite preachers. It is the freedom of the black pulpit that makes it so unique. It's not a freedom without accountability, for the black preacher is more scrutinized than probably any person in America. However, he is expected to "endure hardness as a good soldier" (II Timothy 2:3) and speak the truth regardless.
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