The recent controversy surrounding the comments made seven years ago, during a church sermon by Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright, has caused polarization and heated debate among American citizens. Although the U.S. has a long history of revolutionary vigor tempered by its founding fathers, has shown great disdain for tyranny at home and abroad, and has zealously advocated the individual’s constitutional rights to speak out boldly against oppression and immoral actions, this does not seem to apply to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.