Jerry From the Block; or: The Reverend Wright Finally Assimilates
Telegraph - Rev Jeremiah Wright to retire in ‘white suburb’
Grateful parishioners of Rev Jeremiah Wright, 66, are building him a $1 million, 10,400 sq ft mansion, next to a country club and golf course in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Tinley Park. In the 2000 census, just two per cent of Tinley Park’s 48,400 residents were black and 93 per cent were white. …
The Trinity United Church of Christ is located in the heart of the city’s rundown and predominantly African-American South Side, and worshippers are instructed to live by its self-proclaimed Black Value System. Among the tenets is “Disavowal of the Pursuit of ‘Middleclassness’.”
But Rev Wright will not be living among his flock following his recent retirement. Instead, he is leaving them in pursuit of distinctly middle class - indeed upper-middle class - environs.
According to building plans reviewed by Chicago newspapers, Mr Wright and his wife Ramah will not be the poor relations in their new and overwhelmingly white neighbourhood. The property will boast four bedrooms, a whirlpool, butler’s pantry, elevator, exercise room, circular driveway and four-car garage.
Keepin’ it real.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Just jumping in and spoiling the gaff, eh?
Just being the little spoilsport, eh?
Just wandering about in the little goody twoshoes making the leetle corrections, eh?
You shall be sent back to Hawaii by inner tube!
May 4th, 2008 at 4:31 am
The extra guest rooms are for refugees from New Orleans - in case of another hurricane.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:22 am
God Damn Chicago!
May 4th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Oh Brett, you’re such a naïf. In case Bush blows up the levees again. There was never any hurricane. Unless Bush called it especially through his failure to ratify Kyoto, in which case there was a hurricane. But at any rate it was all because Bush hates black people, in the words of that poet, Kanye West.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
It was all an excuse to cut loose the Dolphins with their laser eyeballs.
I blame
THE MAN!
May 4th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Yeh, I can only do one level of snark at a time. That church apparently doesn’t appear on the list of donors to the NO relief effort, even though they did have a fund raising rally for same. Christian modesty, perhaps.