Black Minister in Norfolk Area Declares 'Unity & Patriotism' Day as Counter-Balance to Jeremiah Wright's Speech at Norfolk Church

Black Minister in Norfolk Area Declares 'Unity & Patriotism' Day as Counter-Balance to Jeremiah Wright's Speech at Norfolk Church

Bishop Jackson Calls for Unity Based On Ideals & Patriotism - Not RACE
Sunday, April 13th, 11:30 Am - 1701 Park Ave. (Hoover Ave. Entrance), Chesapeake, VA. at Exodus Faith Ministries

MEDIA ADVISORY, April 8 /Standard Newswire/ -- On April 13, 2008 at 11:30, while Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks at one church in Norfolk, just a few miles away, Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., like Wright also a former Marine and also African American will sound a very different note than has been heard from Wright's sermons. Wright has been quoted as saying "God damn America", accusing the Government of creating the AIDS virus to kill blacks, and calling the United States a white supremacist country."

Says Bishop Jackson, "Last Friday I buried a young African American soldier who died from wounds suffered in Iraq". "Before he went on that mission - his second voluntary tour - he told his mother he was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Seen in that light, Rev. Wright's remarks are beneath contempt and denigrate the sacrifice of Sgt. Jevon K. Jordan and many other Americans, black, white and every other ethnic background."

Bishop Jackson has begun a campaign to counter the remarks of Rev. Wright and those who defend him. He argues that Wright's so called "black liberation theology" is not representative of what African American preachers are offering in pulpits around the country. "We preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, not hate your country, hate other people and avoid 'middle class-ness'. The Anti-American, Anti- Israel, pro-Farrakhan message that Wright teaches is heretical to the Bible and Christianity. Christians are too busy teaching what God is doing for us to become obsessed with what real or imagined enemies are doing to us. God commands that we forgive."

Bishop Jackson is an unapologetic patriot. He has criticized Barak Obama's removal of his flag lapel pin. "People have bled and died under the banner of that flag, and it's not good enough for you to wear it?" Jackson asks rhetorically. "What is it about our flag that you don't like?"

Bishop Jackson's says Exodus Faith Ministries' Sunday service will not be about who Rev. Wright is, "But about who we are as Americans. We are a nation thirsting to be all that the Founding Fathers envisioned and more, not wallowing in the past but marching forward into an ever greater future"

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