Biography

Jeremiah Wright was born on September 22, 1941 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is married to Ramah Reed Wrigh. They have four children.

Performed the marriage ceremony of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.

Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago from 1972 to 2008. The membership grew from 87 to over 8,000.

Graduate of Howard University. Earned a master's degree in English.

Was part of the medical team that took care of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Received three letters of commendation during Johnson's administration.

Served in the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Navy. Was valedictorian at Naval Station Great Lakes.

The United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into position of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no! Not God bless America; God damn America! That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating her citizen as less than human! God damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is supreme!