From history, there has been religion, autocratic rulers as well as Men of God; prophets, pastors or evangelists who spoke truth to power. Most times the rulers do not like what they hear, nor do they always heed the counsel of God as spoken by His servants. Most times, the servants were derided, persecuted or even killed to shut them up. John the baptist was beheaded by Herod because he yelled and would not stop that it was unlawful for Herod to take his brother's wife. Ahab would not listen to the mighty Elijah and said it was Elijah that 'troubelleth Israel' (1 Kings 18:17). There were times, however, that the kings paid heed to the prophets among them, repented and changed the circumstance of their nation. David repented and wrote Psalm 51. Abraham Lincoln did just that by calling for a fast and then issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the USA. America is by history, self-description, census or polling a majority-Christian dominated nation, so examples from the good book would help define the context in which the Reverend Jeremiah Wright ought to be seen speaking from since he was in his church's pulpit.

A Man of God, whether pastor, evangelist or prophet is taken from the people and ordained to speak the words of God, for God. He is supposed to see the plight of the people from the view-point of God or as it were, through the eye-lids of God. When a preacher mounts the pulpit, God enjoins him to speak as an oracle of God. Some examples may throw more light.

Oracles of God

Moses, who was raised in the king's palace, renounced his princely heritage to empathize with his people who were slaves in Egypt quartered in Goshen. Moses spoke truth to power when he obeyed God, for God had said unto him: "Go unto Pharoah and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, let my people go that they may serve me" (Exodus 8:1). Moses may have had his failings, but when he spoke, he spoke as an oracle of God. Pharoah may have said that he was disrespectful or impudent or incendiary, but regarding the message, Moses was on point.

Samuel the Prophet, also had a little confrontation with his king.

^"And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD. And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king  over Israel. And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou."

                                                                                                                                   1 Samuel 15:22-28

God again sent another prophet, this time Nathan, to King David who said to him, "Thou art the man" after narating a parabolic story that brought out the righteous indignation of David who had decreed that such a person who had so offended ought to be killed! David owned up to his sin, confessed before God's representative, the Prophet Nathan and was forgiven.

Jonah, after his initial costly disobedience to God, went to Nineveh to preach a very caustic and negative message - "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown" (Jonah 3:4). He did not even ask the Ninevites to repent. His attitude was not loving, and it is clear that he thought they deserved the imminent destruction because of their wickedness. Those very negative words of prophesy propelled the King of Nineveh to action...

"So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not."
                                                                                                                                     Jonah 3:5-10

Although the prophesy of Jonah was not polite or politically correct, he spoke the word of God, the people heard it, had a mind to repent, repented and were spared the wrath of God. the cynic may then ask if all pastors are modern prophets. The answer would be in the negative, but all pastors now have the spirit of prophesy. While being a Prophet of God is still a gift and a special calling as found in Ephesians 4:11, from the time of Pentecost Sunday, God has now poured out His Spirit of prophesy on all His children. So especially a pastor, under the anointing, in his pulpit, speaking as an oracle of God, is bound to prophesy.

Was Jesus Politically correct?

Jesus' central message of the gospel was love. He indeed reduced all the prophets and the law to two commandments - Love God with all and your neighbor as yourself. In context, it means do to the black man as you would your fellow white man. The main 'crime' that got Jesus the capital punishment was that he offended the powers that be by claiming to be "King of Israel" who had a kingdom apart from that of the Romans. The religious rulers of His day also hated Jesus because He publicly preached against their hypocrisy and often confronted them publicy. So the Rabbis together with the worldly leaders of Rome collaborated to accuse Jesus try Him in their courts and nail Him to the cross. Jesus had driven with a whip the merchants from the temple who no doubt were there on the authority of the 'rulers' of the Temple, thus upsetting their prosperity schemes. This same Jesus who preached love for all mankind had this exchange taken from Matthew 23:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone...Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness...Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.... Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." 

If Jesus' preachers have His Spirit indwelling them, is it any surprise that they are wont to be angry at hypocrisy or injustice to a section all while professing to be His followers? Some are quick to bring up the Scriptural injunction that all ought to be subject to governments, and that any criticism of the running of government affairs must amount to a rebellion. That too is shere manipulation of scripture. God never left any oppressive regimes alone. He often sent His messengers right from the time of the Judges to deliver them. Most who say we ought to sit without comment in servile docility after the coming of Jesus Christ forget of one of the prophecies of the Messiah: