Sen. Barack Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2004 that he had three spiritual advisers: radical Jeremiah Wright, radical James Meeks, and radical Father Michael Pfleger.
But, radical Father Pfleger was more than a spiritual guide for Obama.
They also ran shakedown protests together.
State Sen. Barack Obama and Fr. Michael Pfleger led a protest against the payday loan industry demanding the State of Illinois to regulate loan businesses in January 2000. (NBC 5 Week of January 3, 2000)
Obama’s spiritual mentor is under fire this week after flying the “Chi-Raq” race flag above the US flag at his parish St. Sabina.
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Father Pfleger apologizes after ‘Chi-Raq’ flag flies above US flag at St. Sabina: https://t.co/uxSV67XPgh pic.twitter.com/ParfCYNmOI
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) February 4, 2016
WLS reported:
Father Michael Pfleger is apologizing after the “Chi-Raq” flag was briefly flying higher than the American flag outside his South Side church.
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Pfleger says he decided two days ago to lower to American flag outside St. Sabina to half-staff to mark the violence in Chicago. But he forgot the “Chi-Raq” flag was still flying high.
He asked a maintenance worker to remove the flag Thursday morning, but not before receiving a number of angry phone calls and emails.
“Why didn’t I get tons of calls about violence? Why didn’t I get a number of emails about the horrible murders going on in Chicago? We’re more concerned about a position of a flag than bodies lying in our streets,” Pfleger said.
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