My parents and I talk about politics a lot, yet I hardly write about them. So, when the first thing out of my parents mouths when I returned home for Spring Break was, “Did you hear about Reverend Wright and Barack Obama?” it was business as usual.

To be honest at the time, being that I had been pretty busy with the last week of school, the name Reverend Wright didn’t mean a thing to me. They took the liberty to tell me about him.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright is the former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ located in Chicago; on February 10, 2008, he retired after 36 years of service to the church. Over the course of those 36 years, he used his sermon to address religious issues and political issues; it seems that church and state are never really separated.

For the majority of his pasturing Reverend Wright used his position to say what he thought to be the truth. You could say he said some controversial things, however, the things he said only saw the light of day when it was found out that presidential hopeful Barack Obama belonged to his congregation.

When I came home, my parents informed me that, “Reverend Wright is a maniac