Perspective that allows us to see the relationship between the suffering of those individuals and institution of mechanisms that perpetuate it. emanuel closed 50 public schools affecting poor african-american neighborhoods and may cost him his job. recent polling shows 29% support for re-election. only 8% of african-americans want to keep him as mayor. there s not one solution for chicago s gun violence but there s no way you can fix the problem by abandoning chicago s poorest neighborhoods. jining me now is our rapid response panel, assistant professor of english and after cana studies at the university of pennsylvania and senior pastor of the trinity church of christ. isn t gun legislation just a small piece of this more intriguing intrick cat problem? absolutely. the gun legislation is a very small sliver of what s happening. we need more investment in
Trinity church of christ while it was pastored by reverend wright when i lived in chicago. and i also once was paid by td bank which is the bank that funded the church of jeremiah wright. and the world is about to understand jeremiah wright, and understand his influence on barack obama, and he is truly the elephant in the room. why do they think this will work? go to page 8, the abe lincoln has appeared as a hyperpartisan and hyperpolitician with a little bit of the trimmer in him. and this is properly explained should have an impact on the
Also dwight haw kins who is the professor of the divinity school and also a member of the trinity church of christ. thank you, melissa. reverend moss, i want to start with you, because you are reverend wright s successor, and you are now the senior pastor at trinity united churp of christ, and you have made news twice this week both for your stance on same-sex marriage in the days following president obama s stance, and also of course because trinity has now found its way back into the news. start just by telling me a little bit about trinity and trinity s position on issues of human and civil equality. well, first i want to thank you for allowing me to be on the show, and how tragic it is that we are back in the news as a result of a super pac that focuses on fear and not inspiring people to talk about the issues such taas the e koco and the i.d. laws and the prison laws, and restoring the brilliant legacy of a man who
Orleans? where is your dollar? where is your stafford act money? makes no sense. tells me the built hasn t been taken out. [applause] tells me that somehow the people down in new orleans, they don t care about as much. bill: also in the crowd that day was the reverend jeremiah wright. mike emanuel is live in washington. reverand wright became a controversial figure during the 2008 campaign. what did then senator obama say about him in that summer of 2007? reporter: he made reference to the trinity church of christ saying that s where he met reverend wright and introduced him to a man named jesus christ and mr. obama praised his long-time pastor. i have got to give a special
Blackness and theology is part of what gave a lot of folks anxiety, and it soo ems to be it seems to be the thing that folks think they can use as a political wedge here. what are they missing of how that is understood within trinity, itself, and how are you feeling in the south side of chicago about being back in the news? well, of course, we don t want to be back in the news at that level, but at the same time it serves as an opportunity to speak of what we truly believe in. there is no difference of the africanity,and as someone who is reformed german, and as someone who is irish catholic can be unashame and unapologetic about being irish catholic and the same as a korean presbyterian. we at the trinity church of christ believes that god has developed us, and that we love who we are, and we serve the savior to be unashame and unapologetic where we come from