Rev. Jeremiah Wright: I am Toxic and Radioactive

President Barack Obama and former pastor Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Photo Source:www.tucc.org

The blogosphere is buzzing with much ado about nothing regarding a February 2010 letter that the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright wrote in reply to a request from Joseph J. Prischak, the president of Africa 6000 International in Erie, Pa.

In May 2007, Prischak started Africa 6000 International, a non-profit organization that provides Africa with clean water and bottling plants that would provide jobs for villages and support the thousands of orphanages springing up across Africa.

Prischak's business partner Morrison and Muhammad Ali were able to obtained $126 million from Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein to buy pharmaceuticals, milk and food for the children of Iraq. The money was never spent because Morrison was imprisoned. Morrison, has been imprisoned for nearly 18 years because he was convicted of making phone threats between 1989 to 1992 to hospitals where his ex-girlfriend worked.

Now this is where Daddy J. (as he is affectionately called) gets drag into this mess. Rev. Wright was literally minding his business when Prischak contacted him and asked him to use his influence to lobby the U.S. authorities to permit $36 million in interest from the money held in an overseas account to be allowed to be sent to faith-based groups for the children of Haiti.

The letter obtained by the Associate Press appears to be a realistic response from Wright to Prischak's request:

No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them. I am 'toxic' in terms of the Obama administration.

I am 'radioactive,' Sir. When Obama threw me under the bus, he threw me under the bus literally!" he wrote. "Any advice that I offer is going to be taken as something to be avoided. Please understand that!

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright is Pastor Emeritus at Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois.