pictures of him ministering to lyndon johnson when lyndon johnson was at the hospital, the naval hospital in bethesda maryland. reverend blight, a marine, was, you know, assisting with the medical care of the president. but my father, again, my father was actually further over than reverent right. everybody was talking about reverend wright, how can he possibly say this and i was telling my friends listened, you know, you should listen to my old man. my father was more extreme. but i wanted people to understand, number one, reverend wright wasn't some marginal figure in black america. she represented a considerable and historic stream of hot within black america, and i wanted people to understand the experiences that would lead someone of reverent right's advantage to take the position that it took. and i used my father to help with that pedagogical purpose. my father was born in 1917 and louisiana. he suffered terribly under white supremacist oppression. my parents were refugees from the jim crow south. i was born in columbia south carolina from 1954. i asked my father why did you leave? my father s