Watch Video: Barack Obama's Pastor

Clips from a recent sermon shed light on why the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has generated so much controversy.

Video tapes showing Barack Obama's longtime minister preaching about the "U.S. of KKK-A" and describing September 11 as "America's chickens... coming home to roost" have created a serious challenge for the presidential candidate. View clips from a sermon Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered last year at his United Trinity Church of Christ in Chicago, just before retiring.

Wright says certain black leaders prove that "everybody who looks like you don't think like you":


Wright asks why the United States never officially apologized for slavery:


Wright says America's "system" has kept minorities and the poor subordinate:


Wright leads his congregation in a rousing song of praise:

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