Yes, I’m aware of the Tuskegee medical experiments our government conducted on blacks from 1932-72. But, that doesn’t make two wrongs a right, or a Wright.
Slate has this direct quote, that Wright said the government “invent(ed) the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” in an article about AIDS conspiracy theories.
The Washington Post confirms the full quote, “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” as coming from a 2003 sermon.
(The “genocide against people of color” plus “Jeremiah Wright” gets 45 Google News hits.
“Inventing” is the key word. Rev. Wright is, sadly, an AIDS conspiracy theorist.
Beyond that, it is true, as a generalization, that the black church has been hostile to gays, which means that gay blacks in a church like Wright’s face a double stigma if they test HIV-positive.
They’re stigmatized as gay, and now, the conspiracy theorists probably think they’re contagious, too.
And, while Barack Obama tackled some other of Wright’s comments in Obama’s much-ballyhooed March 18 speech, he didn’t even reference this one. He probably doesn’t want to touch it with a 10-foot pole.
Re Obama’s relations with Wright, Bloomberg unearths a tidbit about Obama’s financial support for Wright and Trinity UCC.
Obama gave the church $22,500 in 2006, according to tax returns. That certainly doesn’t sound like someone unaware of what his pastor was saying.
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