Well, it seems as though Obama has finally handled the Wright issue, about time. He got pretty pissed at the Right Reverend and basically told what he could do with his devisive utterances. Obama took a while getting at the heart of this, I must say, but I think he did a pretty good job of distancing himself from the nutty rhetoric of Mr. Wright. I believe that the Reverend is just riding a giant wave of ego, personally. He’s getting his 15 minutes of fame and doesn’t care who he hurts, just as long as someone is still willing to stick a camera and a mike in his face.
It is incongruous to me how, in one instance, Rev. Wright said in a statement last week, that all of his snippets that have been taken out of context, however…he reiterated those same idiotic statements all over again, the idea that the U.S. has introduced the HIV virus to kill black people, (What?!), USA of the KKK, and this whole media blitz is an attack on the “black church” not on him personally. Outrageous and untrue statements, also that Obama will pretty much say anything to get elected, I mean it was an under-handed way to go after Obama. Why not say what you really think? That you don’t want Obama to be elected at all, that way you can continue to scream Racist! all the way to the bank. Because I believe he is preaching hatred and preying on people’s fears of racism and by vilifying all white people, he feeds on those fears. It’s easy to throw punches, when no-one hits back. I’m glad Obama did. I feel like we should just stop paying attention to this person, and move on. Unless something else really juicy comes out.
“Yo NAACP. Surely you could have found someone less divisive to speak your fund raising dinner or does the hype help you sell tickets? What is the point of having this man speak? I am not black, but I can understand the points the Reverend makes in the speeched that have garnered so much attention, but I am not black and I have not lived in this country as black person, so what do I know about it? I do know this… this is not the way of Dr. King. Any talk of hate — only begets hate. An eye for an eye — and we all go blind. This does not mean be a victim. Stand up. Protest. But lose the hate, it serves no one. How will having the Reverend Wright speak at the dinner help the NAACP? Would he have been asked if there was no controversy surrounding him? How is this moving people forward?
SOMEBODY ENLIGHTEN ME — I WANT TO KNOW.”
That last paragraph was written by a blogger at myfoxdetroit by Kraniak_the_Maniak , btw. He’s got a good blog about this, some interesting comments as well.
This is from the National Review site called the Corner…..heed well.
The Scary Legacy of the 2008 Democratic Primary written by Victor Davis Hanson at Real Clear Politics.
“One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright. It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.
His convoluted explanation of African-American right-brain ‘oral’ culture as more creative, musical, and spontaneous versus European left-brain traditional analysis could never have been given by someone white to that audience without justifiably earning booing and catcalls.
Three comments: this was just the sort of racist ‘genetic’ difference that most Americans learned to shun, now apparently quite acceptable again, and part of the mainstream.
Second, there is no evidence that so-called Europeans could not “rap” or create an oral literature as well as Africans — remember, oral poetry as we know it , began with bards like Homer somewhere in the southeastern Aegean and continued into modern times in the Balkans.
Three, some of the most accomplished speakers of English and analytical thinkers are African-Americans, a fact everyone immediately recognizes from what they read and with whom they speak.
In short, Wright’s speech on black-right brainers, white-left brainers — replete with bogus stereotypes and crude voice imitations — was about as racist as they come and at one time antithetical to what the NAACP was once all about. Again, the Obama campaign and its appendages have set back racial relations a generation. Just ten years ago, any candidate, black or white, would have rejected Wright making a speech about genetic differences in respective black and white brains. Now it’s given to civil rights organizations by the possible next President’s pastor and spiritual advisor — and done to wild applause for an organization founded on the idea that we are innately the same, while being gushed over by ignorant “commentators.”
As I said before, between Wright’s racism and hatred, and Obama’s contextualization of what he has said, we have so lowered the bar that the next racist (and he won’t necessarily be black) who evokes hatred of other races and then offers a mish-mash pop theory of genetic differences will have plenty of “context” to ward off public fury.
Orwellian times.”
Amen! I definitely couldn’t have said it better, I loved how he put this.
