AMY GOODMAN: What are your thoughts on Reverend Wright? DR. VINCENT HARDING: I am very glad that we have had Reverend Wrights all through our history in this country. I think it has been good for black people. And for those whites who would listen, it has been good for them, as well. I know Jeremiah Wright just a bit, and I appreciate him a great deal. I choose very specifically not to judge him by sound bites, but by the fullness of his life, which I have seen, from the Chicago that I know, as being a life full of service to that community, full of service in such a way that he was building people in every possible way that he could. And I respect him a great deal. One of the small things that always comes to my mind is that when my first major book, There is a River, was published back in ’80, ’81, Jeremiah Wright was one of the few pastors who, as pastor, said, I want this book to be read by everybody in my congregation. You come here from wherever you are, Vincent, and you speak to my congregation about this book, because it is absolutely necessary that our people understand their history. You teach it to us, please. That was striking to me, a pastor who wanted to be a teacher and who wanted to help others learn from every teacher that they could. So I have a very warm place in my heart for Jeremiah Wright.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:18:21 +0000
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