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'''Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr.''' (born September 22, 1941) is a [[pastor]] [[emeritus]] of [[Trinity United Church of Christ]] in [[Chicago]], a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners.<ref name=":0" /> Following retirement, his beliefs and preaching were [[Jeremiah Wright controversy|scrutinized]] when segments of his sermons about terrorist attacks on the United States and government dishonesty were publicized in connection with the [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|2008 presidential campaign]] of [[Barack Obama]].<ref name="banks1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102683.html |title=Obama Finds Pulpit in Center of Racial Divide |access-date=2008-03-22 |last=Banks |first=Adelle |date=2008-03-22 |work=The Washington Post}}</ref>

Wright was born on September 22, 1941.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Meyer |first=Stephen |year=2013 |title=Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. |editor-last=Mazurkiewicz |editor-first=Margaret |encyclopedia=Contemporary Black Biography |volume=103 |location=Farmington Hills, Michigan |publisher=Gale |page=169 |isbn=978-1-4144-8070-1 |issn=1058-1316}}</ref> He was born and raised in the racially mixed area of [[Germantown, Philadelphia|Germantown]], [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name="KingSmith2011">{{cite book|author1=Desmond S. King|author2=Rogers M. Smith|title=Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqfjeObkbEoC&pg=PA4|date=4 September 2011|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-14263-0|pages=4–}}</ref> His parents were Jeremiah Wright Sr. (1909–2001), a [[Baptist]] minister who pastored Grace Baptist Church in Germantown from 1938 to 1980,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tcnj.edu/~brochar2/Rev.%20Dr.%20Jeremiah%20Wright.htm|access-date=2008-03-25|author=Gabrielle Brochard and John DeVecchi|title=Biographical Essays|year=2006}}</ref> and Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright, a school teacher who was the first black person to teach an academic subject at Roosevelt Junior High. She went on to be the first black person to teach at [[Germantown High School (Philadelphia)|Germantown High]] and [[Philadelphia High School for Girls|Girls High]], where she became the school's first black vice principal.

Wright graduated from [[Central High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)|Central High School]] of Philadelphia in 1959, among the best schools in the area at the time.<ref name="KingSmith2011" /> At the time, the school was around 90 percent white.<ref>Wright, Jeremiah A. (1989). ''The pilgrimage of a pastor: The autobiography of Jeremiah A. Wright Sr.'' Aaron Press, ASIN B0006F1LD4</ref>  The 211th class yearbook described Wright as a respected member of the class. "Always ready with a kind word, Jerry is one of the most congenial members of the 211," the yearbook said. "His record in Central is a model for lower class [younger] members to emulate."<ref name="KingSmith2011" />

From 1959 to 1961, Wright attended [[Virginia Union University]],<ref name="tucc1">[http://www.tucc.org/pastor.htm Pastor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121094419/http://www.tucc.org/pastor.htm |date=2008-01-21 }} ''Trinity United Church of Christ''</ref> in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] and is a member of [[Omega Psi Phi]] fraternity, Zeta chapter. In 1961 Wright left college and joined the [[United States Marine Corps]] and became part of the [[2nd Marine Division (United States)|2nd Marine Division]] attaining the rank of [[private first class]]. In 1963, after two years of service, Wright joined the [[United States Navy]] and entered the [[Naval Hospital Corps School|Corpsman School]] at the [[Great Lakes Naval Training Center]].<ref name="corin1"/><ref>[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0404wrightapr03,0,92000.story Factor military duty into criticism - Lyndon B. Johnson, Dick Cheney, The White House - chicagotribune.com]</ref> Wright was then trained as a [[cardiopulmonary]] technician at the [[National Naval Medical Center]] in [[Bethesda, Maryland]]. Wright was assigned as part of the medical team charged with care of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (see photo of Wright caring for Johnson after his 1966 surgery). Before leaving the position in 1967, the [[White House Physician]], Vice Admiral Burkley, personally wrote Wright a letter of thanks on behalf of the United States President.<ref>Korb, Lawrence and Ian Moss. "Factor military duty into criticism". [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0404wrightapr03,0,92000.story Available online.] [https://www.webcitation.org/5WoiVsN1X?url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0404wrightapr03%2C0%2C92000.story Archived.]</ref><ref name="historymbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=331&category=religionMaker |title=Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Biography |access-date=2008-03-23 |date=2002-01-11 |publisher=The History Makers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505043453/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=331&category=religionMaker |archive-date=2008-05-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="howardubio">{{cite web |url=http://www.howard.edu/charterday/2004/dabios.htm#wright |title=The Biography of the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. |access-date=2008-04-04 |date=2004-03-04 |work=Charter Day 2004 Distinguished Alumni Biographies |publisher=[[Howard University]]}}</ref>

In 1967 Wright enrolled at [[Howard University]] in Washington, DC, where he earned a [[bachelor's degree]] in 1968 and a [[master's degree]] in [[English studies|English]] in 1969. He also earned a [[master's degree]] from the [[University of Chicago Divinity School]].<ref name="corin1"/> Wright holds a [[Doctor of Ministry]] degree (1990) from the [[United Theological Seminary]] in [[Dayton, Ohio]], where he studied under [[Samuel DeWitt Proctor]], a mentor to [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]<ref>Emily Udell, "Keeping the Faith", ''In These Times'', February 8, 2005. [http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1918/keeping_the_faith/ Available online.] [https://www.webcitation.org/5XKxltA22?url=http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1918/keeping_the_faith/ Archived].</ref>

His wife is Ramah Reed Wright, and he has four daughters, Janet Marie Moore, Jeri Lynne Wright, Nikol D. Reed, and Jamila Nandi Wright, and one son, Nathan D. Reed.<ref name="corin1">{{cite web|url=http://www.corinthianbaptistchurch.org/jeremiah_a_wright_jr.htm|access-date=2008-03-25|publisher=Corinthian Baptist Church|title=Dr. Jeremiah A Wright Jr.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329020426/http://www.corinthianbaptistchurch.org/jeremiah_a_wright_jr.htm|archive-date=2008-03-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:Jeremiah Wright and Bill Clinton at 1998 White House Prayer Breakfast.jpg|right|222px|thumb|Jeremiah Wright (center left), in 1998, greeting President Bill Clinton during a prayer breakfast at the White House]]Wright became pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago on March 1, 1971; it had some 250 members on its rolls, but only about 90 or so were actually attending worship by that time.<ref>''Yearbooks of the United Church of Christ, 1971–72''</ref> By March 2008 Trinity United Church of Christ had become the largest church in the mostly white<ref name="ajc">{{cite news |url= http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/18/wright_0319.html |title=Message of Obama Pastor Forged in Civil Rights Movement |access-date=2008-03-27 |last= Gorski |first=Eric |date=2008-03-18 |newspaper=[[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]}}</ref> [[United Church of Christ]] denomination. The President and General Minister of the United Church of Christ, John H. Thomas, has stated: "It is critical that all of us express our gratitude and support to this remarkable congregation, to Jeremiah A. Wright for his leadership over 36 years."<ref name="ucc">{{cite web |url=http://www.ucc.org/news/chicagos-trinity-ucc-is.html |title=Chicago's Trinity UCC Is "Great Gift to Wider Church Family |access-date=2008-03-27 |last= Guess |first=J. Bennet |date=2008-03-14 |publisher=[[United Church of Christ]]}}</ref> Thomas, who is a member of the Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in [[Cleveland]], has also preached<ref name="thomas">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anpI-BKp5cg |access-date=2008-03-27 |title=White People Welcome at Trinity United Church of Christ |publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> and worshipped at Trinity United Church of Christ (most recently on March 2, 2008).<ref name="ucc"/>

Trinity and Wright were profiled by correspondent [[Roger Wilkins]] in Sherry Jones's documentary ''Keeping the Faith'' broadcast as the June 16, 1987, episode of the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] series ''[[Frontline (U.S. TV series)|Frontline]] with [[Judy Woodruff]]''.<ref>{{Cite video |people=Jones, Sherry (producer & director), [[Roger Wilkins|Wilkins, Roger]] (correspondent), [[Judy Woodruff|Woodruff, Judy]] (anchor) |date=June 16, 1987|title=FRONTLINE: reports: Keeping the Faith |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/info/514.html |publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS Video]] |location=Alexandria, Virginia |oclc=18127027}}, [[Online Computer Library Center|OCLC]] [http://worldcat.org/oclc/21357978 21357978], [[Online Computer Library Center|OCLC]] [http://worldcat.org/oclc/18126496 18126496], [[Online Computer Library Center|OCLC]] [http://worldcat.org/oclc/42508237 42508237]<br />{{Cite news |author=Ruth, Daniel |title=Chicago minister exalts 'Faith' |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=(Chicago%20minister%20exalts)%20AND%20date(6/16/1987%20to%206/16/1987)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=6/16/1987%20to%206/16/1987)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(Chicago%20minister%20exalts)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no |format=paid archive |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |page=50 |date=June 16, 1987}}<br />{{Cite news |author=McBride, James |title=On leaving the ghetto |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73827376.html?dids=73827376:73827376&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT |format=paid archive |work=[[The Washington Post]] |page=F3 |date=June 16, 1987 |author-link=James McBride (writer)}}<br />{{Cite news |title='Sunday morning worship America's most segregated hour' |work=[[Post-Tribune (Indiana newspaper)|Post-Tribune]] |page=4 |date=June 21, 1987}}</ref>

In 1995, Wright was asked to deliver a prayer during an afternoon session of speeches at the [[Million Man March]] in Washington, DC.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1995-10-16|title=Official Program|publisher=Million Man March|location=Washington}}</ref>

Wright attended a lecture by Frederick G. Sampson in [[Richmond, Virginia]], in the late 1980s, on the [[G.&nbsp;F. Watts]] painting ''[[Hope (painting)|Hope]]'', which inspired him to give a sermon in 1990 based on the subject of the painting&nbsp;– "with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God.... To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope... that's the real word God will have us hear from this passage and from Watt's painting."<ref>[http://www.preachingtoday.com/sermons/sermons/audacityofhope.html Sermon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725202135/http://www.preachingtoday.com/sermons/sermons/audacityofhope.html |date=2010-07-25 }} printed in Preaching Today, 1990.</ref>  Having attended Wright's sermon, [[Barack Obama]] later adapted Wright's phrase "audacity ''to'' hope" to "audacity ''of'' hope" which became the title for his [[2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address]], and the title of his [[The Audacity of Hope|second book]].

Wright, who was Barack Obama's former pastor, gained national attention in March 2008 when [[ABC News]], after reviewing dozens of Wright's sermons,<ref name="abc1">[https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788 Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11] Brian Ross and Rehab el-Buri, ''ABC News'', March 13, 2008</ref> excerpted parts which were subject to intense media scrutiny.<ref name="banks1"/><ref name="usatoday">{{Cite news |first=Ken |last=Dilanian |title=Defenders say Wright has love, righteous anger for USA |url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-18-obamawright_N.htm |work=[[USA Today]] |date=2008-03-18 |access-date=2008-04-02 }}</ref><ref name="adubato-msnbc">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23745283|title=Obama's reaction to Wright too little, too late|work=NBC News|date=March 21, 2008|author=Adubato, Steve}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24371827 |title=Obama Strongly Denounces his ex-Pastor | work=[[NBC News]]|date=2008-03-14|access-date=2008-04-28|first=Alex|last=Johnson}}</ref> Obama denounced the statements in question, but after critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright he gave a speech titled "[[A More Perfect Union (speech)|A More Perfect Union]]", in which he denounced Wright's remarks, but did not disown him as a person.  The controversy began to fade, but was renewed in late April when Wright made a series of media appearances, including an interview on ''[[Bill Moyers Journal]]'', a speech at the [[NAACP]] and a speech at the [[National Press Club (USA)|National Press Club]].<ref name=autogenerated1>"Listening to Rev. Wright" ''OnPoint, 29 April 2008.</ref>  After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church.<ref name="resign">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/us/politics/01obama.html?bl&ex=1212552000&en=4f275b18627314ec&ei=5087%0A|title=Following Months of Criticism, Obama Quits His Church | author=Michael Powell | newspaper=The New York Times | date=2008-06-01|access-date=2008-06-02}}</ref>

On June 9, 2009, in an interview with the ''[[Daily Press (Virginia)|Daily Press of Newport News]]'', Wright indicated that he hadn't had contact with Obama up to that point because "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office." Wright also suggested that Obama did not send a delegation to the [[Durban Review Conference]] in [[Geneva]] on racism because of Zionist pressure saying: "[T]he Jewish vote, the [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee|A-I-P-A-C]] vote, that's controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Durban Review Conference, that's talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is."<ref name=jew>{{cite news|title=Rev. Jeremiah Wright says "Jews" are keeping him from President Obama|url=http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_wright_0610jun10,0,7603283.story|date=June 10, 2009|access-date=June 10, 2009|first=David|last=Squires|newspaper=The Daily Press}}</ref> Writing for ''[[The Atlantic]]'', [[Ta-Nehisi Coates]] characterized Wright's remarks as "crude conspiratorial [[antisemitism]]."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic|url=http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/jeremiah_wright.php|access-date=June 11, 2009|title=Jeremiah Wright|date=June 11, 2009|author=Ta-Nehisi Coates|author-link=Ta-Nehisi Coates}}</ref> On June 11, 2009, Wright amended his remarks during an interview with Mark Thompson on his radio program, ''Make it Plain.'' "Let me say like [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]], I misspoke. Let me just say: [[Zionists]]... I’m not talking about all Jews, all people of the Jewish faith, I’m talking about Zionists."<ref>{{cite web|author=Jake Tapper|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/rev-wright-i-meant-to-say-zionists-are-keeping-me-from-talking-to-president-obama-not-jews.html|publisher=ABC News: Political Punch|title=Rev. Wright: I Meant to Say "Zionists" Are Keeping Me from Talking to President Obama -- Not Jews|access-date=June 11, 2009|date=June 11, 2009|author-link=Jake Tapper}}</ref>

Wright wrote on his [[Facebook]] page apologizing for his remarks on June 12, 2009. He wrote, "I mis-spoke and I sincerely meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama administration... I have great respect for the Jewish faith and the foundational (and central) part of our Judeo-Christian tradition."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/12/wright-apologizes-for-them-jews-as%20museum-re/|first=Lynn|last=Sweet|title=Wright Apologizes for 'Them Jews' as Museum Reopens|access-date=June 12, 2009|date=June 12, 2009|publisher=[[Politics Daily]]}}</ref> "In other words", another ''Atlantic'' writer, [[Jeffrey Goldberg]], alleged, "[H]e regrets speaking plainly instead of deploying a euphemism."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/06/rev_wright_clarifies.php|title=Rev. Wright Clarifies|publisher=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=June 11, 2009|date=June 11, 2009}}</ref> The [[Anti Defamation League]] released a statement condemning Wright's remarks as "inflammatory and false. The notions of Jewish control of the [[White House]] in Reverend Wright's statement express classic anti-Semitism in its most vile form."<ref>{{cite web|title=ADL Expresses Outrage At Reverend Wright's Hateful And Inflammatory Comments|date=June 11, 2009|publisher=[[Anti Defamation League]]|url=http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/5548_12.htm|access-date=June 12, 2009}}</ref>

In June 2011, in a speech at Empowerment Temple in Baltimore City, Wright called the State of Israel "illegal" and "genocidal" and insisted, "To equate Judaism with the state of Israel is to equate Christianity with [rapper] [[Flavor Flav]]."<ref>Mossburg, Marta.  [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-mossburg-wright-20110621,0,1855821.column "Reverend Wright brings his anti-American crusade to Baltimore."] ''The Baltimore Sun''.  21 June 2011.  22 June 2011.</ref>

* Jawanza Kunjufu and Jeremiah Wright Jr., ''Adam! Where Are You?: Why Most Black Men Don't Go to Church'', African American Images, June 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-913543-43-6}} (also African American Images, 1994, ISBN B000T6LXPQ)

* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr. and Colleen Birchett, ''Africans Who Shaped Our Faith (Student Guide)'', Urban Ministries, Inc., May 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-940955-29-5}}

* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr. and Jini Kilgore Ross, ''Good News!: Sermons of Hope for Today's Families'', Judson Press, December 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-8170-1236-6}}

* William J. Key, Robert Johnson Smith, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and Robert Johnson-Smith, ''From One Brother to Another: Voices of African American Men'', Judson Press, October 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-8170-1250-2}}

* Frank Madison Reid III, Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Colleen Birchett, ''When Black Men Stand Up for God: Reflections on the Million Man March'', African American Images, December 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-913543-48-1}}

* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr., ''What Can Happen When We Pray: A Daily Devotional'', [[Augsburg Fortress Publishers]], June 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-8066-3406-7}}

* Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr., ''From One Brother To Another, Volume 2: Voices of African American Men '', Judson Press, January 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-8170-1362-2}}

* Wright, Jeremiah. "Here I am, send me".  In ''Awakened to a calling: reflections on the vocation of ministry'', Ann M. Svennungsen and Melissa Wiginton (Eds.), Nashville: Abingdon Press, c2005. {{ISBN|0-687-05390-0}}

* Iva E. Carruthers (Editor), Frederick D. Haynes III (Editor), Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. (Editor), ''Blow the Trumpet in Zion!: Global Vision and Action for the 21st Century Black Church'', Augsburg Fortress Publishers, January 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-8006-3712-5}}

* Ernest R. Flores and Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., ''Tempted to Leave the Cross: Renewing the Call to Discipleship'', Judson Press, November 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-8170-1524-4}}

* [http://www.answers.com/Jeremiah%20Wright Biography] at [[Answers.com]]

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* [http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09500HR1073&GA=95&SessionId=51&DocTypeId=HR&LegID=38304&DocNum=1073&GAID=9&Session= Illinois legislature resolution] congratulating Wright on his retirement

* Von Hoene Jr., William A. "[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0326trinitymar26,0,2414760.story Rev. Wright in a different light"]. ''Chicago Tribune'', 26 March 2008.

* [https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/profile.html Bill Moyers Journal - "Reverend Jeremiah Wright"] ''PBS'', April 25, 2008, interview

* [http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2008/05/Black-Liberation-Theology-And-Rev-Jeremiah-Wright.aspx Black Liberation Theology and Rev. Jeremiah Wright], interview with Dwight Hopkins, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, ''[[BeliefNet]]'', May 2008

* [http://publicservice.evendon.com#JeremyWright Jeremiah Wright's Service to 3 Presidents] photographs and newspaper articles

* [http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/rev-jeremiah-wright Wright's blog] at RH Reality Check (one post, February 7, 2008, on HIV/AIDS)

* [http://archon.wheaton.edu/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=624&q=wright+jeremiah "The Invisible Giant: the Black Church since World War II"] Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections

* [https://www.youtube.com/user/TRINITYCHGO Wright sermons] at the official channel of Trinity United Church of Christ on YouTube

* [http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view Audio of complete sermon by Wright from which the soundbite on 9/11 was excerpted.]

* [http://odeo.com/audio/17890793/view Audio of complete sermon by Wright from which soundbite "God damn America" was excerpted.]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080319053840/http://resources.christianity.com/details/cht/19000101/07B1BF53-5CC6-44CC-A7E5-5D9B9B7DEFF7.aspx ''The Audacity to Hope''] sermon from which the title of Barack Obama's book, ''The Audacity of Hope'', is derived.

* [http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4808fe74-023d-417b-8537-33763c33e399 Transcript Of A Jeremiah Wright Sermon given on January 27, 2008] <small>[https://www.webcitation.org/5XKzzIo3m?url=http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id%3D4808fe74-023d-417b-8537-33763c33e399 Archived.]</small>

* [http://video.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_042808_wright.rm Full video of Wright's 28 April 2008 speech on the Black church at the National Press club]. Requires [[RealPlayer]] or [[Real Alternative]]

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