Ok, here we go with the Right Reverend Wright. Did anyone catch it? It will be on the news networks by tommorow. See what you think, here’s what I thought. What on earth is he talking about?? I’ve got the HUH and tilted head thing going on here. It seems to be reminiscent of Louis Farrakhan’s speech at the Million Man March….nonsensical ramblings to make sense of someone’s circumstances, be it what it may. He is saying that we as the human race have different ways of thinking. European folks think with the right side of the brain, the Africans think with the left side of the brain. It’s how we learn, which is to say that it’s not been fair how we have been teaching the black kids in our country, because we have been teaching them the Right-brain methodology, as opposed to Left.
What I came out of this speech with is more confusion about his message, other than we are so different, seemingly from deep within our own brains, that most things that are forgivable, because we European-Americans just do not understand the African-American. Firstly, I am an American, secondly, my ancestors came from Scotland, and Ireland, and thirdly….I’m a human being. Actually, I got that in the wrong order, but you get my gist. We are created equally, I don’t believe we learn any differently than any other human. It makes no sense. How do you explain how so many black people do so very well, in our society? Tell me that. And the amount of whites who do not do well. Still, no sense.
I don’t see the whole “Let’s get together” theme, it just doesn’t’ ring true. Sorry. I saw him mocking the way JFK spoke, and Pres. Johnson, claiming to compare it with the way certain black people speak, saying that we as whites aren’t able to understand the lyrics to rap albums. Most people I know don’t. But how does this bring us all together? This is divisive. I don’t think that the Rev. is helping Obama’s cause. He mocks the white people that are in the audience, saying we don’t even know how to clap in time to music. This man is absurd, and his messages misses by a mile. I understand that he may be wanting to bring us together, but by mocking and exaggerating the differences of all of us, it does just the opposite.
