Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr's "hope."

Mr. Obama says he got the title of his book The Audacity of Hope from his pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright. Apparently what Wright has been hoping for — since 1979, it appears — is to assess, understand, and deconstruct white supremacy.

We are on the verge of launching our African-centered Christian school. The dream of that school, which we articulated in 1979, was built on hope. That hope still lives. That school has to have at its core an understanding and assessment of white supremacy as we deconstruct that reality to help our children become all that God created them to be when God made them in God’s own image.

We teach with hope. It is the same hope which would not let Adam Clayton Powell, Denmark Vesey, Alexander Crummel, Harriet Tubman or Septima Clark give up. It is the same hope which motivated Martin King, Rosa Parks, Samuel DeWitt Proctor, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte and Mary Henderson Wright. I look forward with hope.

We lay a foundation, deconstructing the household of white supremacy with tools that are not the master’s tools. We lay that foundation with hope. We deconstruct the vicious and demonic ideology of white supremacy with hope. Our hope is not built on faith-based dollars, empty liberal promises or veiled hate-filled preachments of the so-called conservatives. Our hope is built on Him who came in the flesh to set us free.

Ok. Now that we have some insight into Wright's "hope," we also now have some insight into the "hope" that Obama has had the audacity to have.

Or is it just me who's had an epiphany on this point?

"Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Ahead!" By Pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter Trumpet, May 2006, reproduced at "Racist Jeremiah Wright On White Supremacy." Sweetness & Light, 3/16/08 (emphasis added).