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Jon Favreau

...day that we first saw the story about Reverend Wright . I remember where I was standing, i...
...stuff he wrote, “I can no more disown Reverend Wright than I can my White grandmother.” Firs...
...it not been for the controversy around Jeremiah Wright , do you think he would've addresse...
...we've had? Does this stack up to Reverend Wright or clinging to guns and religion?” ...

Samantha Tubman

...at that point, the news about Reverend [Jeremiah A.] Wright [Jr.] was starting to really pick up. ...
...put a speaker, and they were blasting Reverend Wright 's speeches. I remember being like...

Eric Waldo

...in South Carolina?” Of course, the Jeremiah Wright stuff. That was these moments o...

Josh DuBois

...was going to announce in Springfield. Reverend Wright , I believe he was going to give th...
...there were early stirrings about Reverend Wright 's public record and comments on ...
...we had to navigate shifting that from Reverend Wright to Reverend Moss, to the future pasto...
...pastors, very publicly acknowledged Reverend Wright , who was in the audience—that's mayb...
...we'll come back to when we talk about Reverend Wright . And he did a major speech at th...

...really tough times. When we talk about Reverend Wright , I'll make sure that—it was among—i...
...have an in-depth conversation about Jeremiah Wright . But separate from that, there wer...
...I had a really interesting role with Reverend Wright and lots of lessons learned there. O...
...us into the story of Trinity Church and Jeremiah Wright ? Sure. Can you tell us a littl...
...and took a taxi to Trinity and met Reverend Wright for the first time. I remember sittin...
...a relationship between myself and Reverend Wright , a closely allied leader, whose nam...
...And it continued in part because Reverend Wright , he saw an opportunity to advance ...
...be absurd to think that things that Reverend Wright said are my fault. But every time h...
...I believe it was the Indiana primary— Reverend Wright was. And Barack called me and said, “I...
...went over to his house. I sat down with Reverend Wright and begged and pleaded, “You can d...
...life and our relationship together.” Reverend Wright wanted no parts of that. He wanted t...
...of Trinity Church, a close friend of Reverend Wright . And every day Des and I woul...
...to trustees at Trinity who would call Reverend Wright , “Please,” pleading with him. It was ...
...to come back to is the story about Jeremiah Wright . He told the story in many ways, bu...
...I think I told the story of being in Reverend Wright 's living room and then all the wa...
...speech; and then, finally, to Reverend Wright 's appearance at the National Pres...
...about his continued engagement with Reverend Wright in the church. So I think I made it al...
...the fact that that was the thrust of Reverend Wright 's sermons and the church's approach...
...in; where, on the other hand, Reverend Wright was one of the first preachers t...
...between the more mainstay churches and Jeremiah Wright 's church, Trinity? I think ther...
...issues but more broadly. But it's also— Reverend Wright and Trinity were active in politics...
...and so forth. And that wasn't where Reverend Wright was. It was much more of a pur...
...left occupied by amazing voices like Reverend Wright , like Father Michael Pfleger—who's no...
...a Lowery or a C. T. Vivian or a King. Reverend Wright is, for lack of a better word, mor...
...justice preaching that would be more of Reverend Wright 's tradition. And there are not to...
...spaces navigating the tough issues with Jeremiah Wright and with others, giving me th...

Michael Strautmanis

...about the whole specter of Reverend Jeremiah [A.] Wright [Jr.] and what that represented an...

Karen Richardson

...have time. But, again, remember that Jeremiah Wright and race was even—you had Sout...
...And this happening all while the Jeremiah Wright videos were coming out. So it wasn'...
...kind of—all of a sudden you see these Jeremiah Wright videos that are out there, and then yo...
...I think, was his relationship with Reverend Wright , and the things that were coming out...

Beverly Daniel Tatum

...radical and use his relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as the—to use that against him. And...
...of course, I know enough about both Reverend Wright —who spoke at Spelman, by the way—an...
...because he had at one point attended Reverend Wright 's church. Anyway, all of this is t...

Otis Moss Jr.

...moved to Chicago as successor to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright . Otis [Moss III] and Edwina, our so...
...church, particularly around the Revered Jeremiah Wright controversy early on and how h...
...thought they had found a moment in Pastor Wright to dethrone, defeat, cut off the leg...
...in the future will look at this. Jeremiah Wright was one of the most—is—prophetic voice...
...with it. Let me back up a minute. Jeremiah Wright had spent five, six, or seven years i...

...in the hospital for serious surgery. Jeremiah Wright —Marine Jeremiah Wright—was assigned t...
...serious surgery. Jeremiah Wright—Marine Jeremiah Wright —was assigned to a support position i...

Kimberlé Crenshaw

...was brought to the fore, which was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy—which, as we know, prompte...
...going to happen. The it that happens is Reverend Wright 's, as they call it, incendiar...
...closest ones that happened before the Jeremiah Wright thing that his opponents tried to ja...
...cooking, and then, bam, here comes Jeremiah Wright . So, everybody is going, “Uh-oh...
...created in an asymmetrical situation. Jeremiah Wright and his grandmother, who was prone t...

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