‘Change is going to come’
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Bankole Thompson
By Bankole Thompson
Published on 04/23/2008
Jeremiah Wright
Dara Frazier
On Sunday, April 27, all roads will lead to Cobo Convention Center, where the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago will deliver the keynote address at the largest sit-down dinner in the world, themed “A Change is Going to Come.” Ten thousand people or more are expected at Cobo to hear from the former pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama make his first major public address in Detroit since the controversies about his sermons damning America emerged on campaign trail. In July of 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his first “I Have a Dream” speech at Cobo, before the March on Washington. “This is not about Barack Obama. He did not invite Jeremiah Wright. He has nothing to do with who the Detroit NAACP invites to its dinner. We have the right to invite anybody, any time, any place to come to Detroit and have dinner with us. That’s our right,” said Detroit NAACP President Rev. Wendell Anthony in an interview. “So for those who may want to use this and say ‘that’s the man of Barack,’ they mean mischief anyway. No matter what happens here they are out for no good.” Anthony said the controversy that has emerged about Wright’s sermons is bigger than Obama and Hillary Clinton. “The fundamental issue with Rev. Wright and the NAACP is that we have the right to speak truth to power unfettered, unedited and unchallenged, particularly in the African American church,” Anthony said. “The assault that’s been made against (Jeremiah Wright) simply because he dared to speak truth to power says to all of us,
On Sunday, April 27, all roads will lead to Cobo Convention Center, where the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago will deliver the keynote address at the largest sit-down dinner in the world, themed “A Change is Going to Come.”
NAACP hopeful about Blacks’ future as Jeremiah Wright keynotes dinner
REV. WENDELL ANTHONY, Detroit Branch NAACP president, says the nation’s largest civil rights group chapter will not refrain from speaking truth and advocating for Black advancement. The organization selected Rev. Jeremiah Wright to give the keynote speech at its 53rd Annual Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner April 27. — Monica Morgan photo
Jeremiah Wright
Dara Frazier
On Sunday, April 27, all roads will lead to Cobo Convention Center, where the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago will deliver the keynote address at the largest sit-down dinner in the world, themed “A Change is Going to Come.” Ten thousand people or more are expected at Cobo to hear from the former pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama make his first major public address in Detroit since the controversies about his sermons damning America emerged on campaign trail. In July of 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his first “I Have a Dream” speech at Cobo, before the March on Washington. “This is not about Barack Obama. He did not invite Jeremiah Wright. He has nothing to do with who the Detroit NAACP invites to its dinner. We have the right to invite anybody, any time, any place to come to Detroit and have dinner with us. That’s our right,” said Detroit NAACP President Rev. Wendell Anthony in an interview. “So for those who may want to use this and say ‘that’s the man of Barack,’ they mean mischief anyway. No matter what happens here they are out for no good.” Anthony said the controversy that has emerged about Wright’s sermons is bigger than Obama and Hillary Clinton. “The fundamental issue with Rev. Wright and the NAACP is that we have the right to speak truth to power unfettered, unedited and unchallenged, particularly in the African American church,” Anthony said. “The assault that’s been made against (Jeremiah Wright) simply because he dared to speak truth to power says to all of us,