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University Cancels Wright's Degree

AP
Posted: 2008-05-01 17:27:40
EVANSTON, Ill. (May 1) - Northwestern University has withdrawn its offer of an honorary degree to the former pastor of Democrat Barack Obama.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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On Monday, Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said criticism of his sermons was an attack on the black church and suggested that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus in order to kill minorities.

A university official says the school had offered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Theology.

But vice president for university relations Alan Cubbage now says the offer has been rescinded because of the controversy surrounding Wright. He also says the school wants "to ensure that the celebratory character of commencement not be affected."

Wright is the former senior minister at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. His criticisms of the United States have drawn criticism to Obama's presidential campaign.

A phone call to Wright's home wasn't answered.

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heartuno 04:48:33 PM May 06 2008

If he hates United State so much and white people why is he here? No matter how his anchestor got here, he is where he is because he lives in United State.

This is where he got the opportunity to became what he is today. most of the people living in this country came from a different country, and everyone went through hard times. But we are gratefull to this country that gave us the opportunity to do something of ourselves. We took the opportunity, because we wanted to make our lives better. Some people have the opportunity in front of them and they don't want to take it. They want something for nothing, like this country owes them.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELVES, ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND GO AND GET IT.

THIS WRIGHT IS BEEN BRAINWASHING PEOPLE AGAINST THE WHITES AND THE UNITED STATES. HE IS SUPPOSE TO BE A MAN OF GOD, AND TEACH LOVE AND RESPECT FOR OTHERS, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN IN RETURN.

HE IS NOT A MAN OF GOD.

fpisme6 09:28:01 AM May 05 2008

FOR IND REP DEMS TO HEAR AND WRIGHT LISTEN AND LEARN ITS NOT GD AMERICA BUT BG AMERICA

http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle Hymn/index.htm

fpisme6 09:26:43 AM May 05 2008

http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle Hymn/index.htm

fpisme6 09:26:19 AM May 05 2008

FOR IND REP DEMS TO HEAR AND WRIGHT LISTEN AND LEARN ITS NOT GD AMERICA BUT GB AMERICA
http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle Hymn/index.htm

bellamarie726 08:43:12 AM May 05 2008

I would like to give Wright an award for OUTING the "typical politician" Obama.
These two men are joke. They are both ticked off because each one are so arrogant and self serving that they ended up showing America the true person they are. Obama is already back pedling on the promise he made to the Teamsters. The only thing Obama can say is HOPE and CHANGE the same retorhic that he said in both his books. It's like a mantra he got from Wright. Yet the both of them are exposed for who they really are.............Empty suits and empty words.

ronminkin 07:59:37 AM May 05 2008

The reverend is only partially black and stop attacking whites as the devil.

bdou689018 07:05:02 AM May 05 2008

The Un-Reverand Wright is an idiot, a bigoted one at that. This n***er should shut up and keep to what he knows: nothing. A typical black who thinks the world owes them something.

thatkword 06:24:45 AM May 05 2008

pray for the Rev. who tried to warn us blacks
You are not monkeys, you are men, so don't worship monkeys or act or
live like monkeys then expect a doctor to cure you if you are black
Much more likely to have spread animal viruses to human beings is the
largely forgotten Special Virus Cancer Program SVCP. This research
program was responsible for the development, the seeding, and the
deployment of various animal viruses, which were capable of producing
cancer and immune system damage when transferred between animal species
and into human cells and tissue.
In the early 1960's it was discovered that some lots of polio vaccines
manufactured on rhesus monkey kidney tissue during the period 1955 to
1963 were contaminated with a monkey virus called SV40,
Simian monkey virus 40.
The SVCP began in 1964 as a government-funded program of the National
Cancer Institute NCI in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Secret Origin of AIDS and HIV
AIDS: A Man-Made Disaster? by Ruaridh Nicoll. Friday, 23 June 2000

thatkword 06:13:42 AM May 05 2008

pray for the Rev. who tried to warn us blacks
You are not monkeys, you are men, so don't worship monkeys or act or
live like monkeys then expect a doctor to cure you if you are black
Much more likely to have spread animal viruses to human beings is the
largely forgotten Special Virus Cancer Program SVCP. This research
program was responsible for the development, the seeding, and the
deployment of various animal viruses, which were capable of producing
cancer and immune system damage when transferred between animal species
and into human cells and tissue.
In the early 1960's it was discovered that some lots of polio vaccines
manufactured on rhesus monkey kidney tissue during the period 1955 to
1963 were contaminated with a monkey virus called SV40,
Simian monkey virus 40.
The SVCP began in 1964 as a government-funded program of the National
Cancer Institute NCI in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Secret Origin of AIDS and HIV
AIDS: A Man-Made Disaster? by Ruaridh Nicoll. Friday, 23 June 2000
so

thatkword 05:40:22 AM May 05 2008

yes, it is possible for evil blacks to hate whites

but why would the average black hate whites?

whites are not going anywhere because whiteness
is not the norm for this planet which is sustained by sunlight

so the average black knows that whites are not going
to just disappear since whiteness comes out
of blackness or dark colored indians who lose
their color as well as blacks who lose their color

read of gehazi in the Bible; also remember Isaac's son,
Jacob, whose wives were chosen from the people of the east:
who is in India?

-thatkarmaword
do unto others as you would have others do unto you

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