SELMA, AL–I arrived 2:30-ish in Birmingham and MC met at the airport. After about 45 minutes of good catch-up conversation I was in Tuscaloosa at Dr. J’s place. We only had time enough to pack up her SUV and head out to Selma. We arrived in Selma just before 7PM, but Tabernacle Baptist Church was already standing room only in the main sanctuary. The crowd of several hundred was present to see and hear the keynote speaker Dr. Jeremiah Wright.
Rev. Wright has recently become known as “Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11” because of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and the way the opponents and haters of the Chicago politician attempted to media assassinate them both. He is, of course, so much more than that. After going through traditional mass meeting preliminaries we were able to hear Dr. Wright speak for himself and he was nothing short of brilliant.
