Wright = Jesus
According to him, that is. Embattled rev was subjected to “public crucifixion” by comments taken out of context. Houston Chron re a Sunday sermon. Meanwhile, ABC’s Jake Tapper watches the whole NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund speech so we don’t have to.* “Goddamn AmeriKKKa,” etc. is not divisive, it’s descriptive. It’s AmeriKKKa that’s divisive. At least, that’s what I’m getting from that. Also helpful to understanding the Rev. Wright’s context are his thoughts on various anthropological, sociological and neurological matters:  Â
“The black religious tradition is different,” he said in comments that seemed to address the controversy about his sermons. “We do it a different way.”
Wright discussed how different groups have seen other groups as “deficient.” After saying English-speakers saw Arabic-speakers as “being deficient,” Wright mentioned Obama almost as an aside.
“Please run and tell my stuck-on-stupid friends that Arabic is a language — is a language, it is not a religion,” he said. “Barack HUSSEIN Obama,” he said, emphasizing the Illinois senator’s middle name dramatically, “Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Barack HUSSEIN Obama. There are Arabic-speaking Christians, there Arabic-speaking Jews, Arabic-speaking Muslims and Arabic-speaking atheists. Arabic is a language, it is not a religion. Stop trying to scare folks by giving them this Arabic name like it’s some disease.”
The bulk of his remarks addressed, however, different groups seeing each other as deficient. He acted out the differences between marching bands at predominantly black and predominantly white colleges. “Africans have a different meter, and Africans have a different tonality,” he said. Europeans have seven tones, Africans have five. White people clap differently than black people. “Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style,” he said. “They have a different way of learning.” And so on.
After jokingly mocking the Boston accents of former Presidents John F. and Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Wright said, “nobody says to a Kennedy, ‘You speak bad English,’ only to a black child was that said.”
Wright said that he believes “a change is going to come, ’cause many of us are committed to change how we see others who are different.”
Sounds a little like he’s clumsily trying to pull off what Obama managed with his widely acclaimed string of excuses. But Wright’s making some good points. There are Arabic-speaking Christians. They’re isolated, targeted, persecuted to varying degrees from Lebanon to the Palestinian areas to Saudi Arabia to Iraq, despite laudatory tolerance and courage in some quarters. There are Arabic-speaking Jews. The IDF, Mossad and Shin Bet have loads of them … not subject to dhimmi tax! There may well be Arabic-speaking athiests, but if they have half a brain, right or left, they’ll keep their mouths shut about it. No dhimmi privileges for Godless apostates. Yeah, and there may be some Arabic-speaking Muslims out there. Unclear whether any of Barack Obama’s extended Kenyan family, to include his dad who gave him that fine Muslim name in keeping with the family religious tradition, speak any Arabic or not. Beyond the usual “Allahu akhbar,” “asalaamu aleikum,” etc. Anyway, about which parts of their brains American blacks are using, Euro vs. Afro tonality and the Boston accent and Ebonics, social implications of same, these are new theories to me. All I have to say is the tone of all that sounds kind of racist. Not to mention crackpot.
Malkin: Wright, racial phrenologist. Damn, that’s the -ology I was looking for.
Ed at Hotair: The Wright Stuff, from Jeremiad to Jeremiah.Â
Mark Daniels at The Moderate Voice, channeling Kurtz: Obama’s Root Canal, which he needs right now like a hole in the head.
Hey, maybe I should give Wright more credit on his understanding of Arab culture and society. Notoriously tolerant Bahrain, hotbed of Gulfi freethinker, names a Jewish woman as its ambassador to the United States. via Gatewaypundit.Â
* Thank you, Jake Tapper. Who says we don’t need the MSM? Speaking of which, the Detroit Free Press, maybe wearing Koolaid goggles, seems to be unable to see the divisiveness for all the descriptions.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:12 am on Monday, April 28, 2008
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April 28th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Awful noisy for a feller that’s been crucified. ain’t he?
April 28th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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April 28th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Jeremiah Wright is a bigot, and he proves it anew every time he opens his mouth. If this is the man Barack Obama looks to for spiritual guidance, then America would be criminally stupid to give him the presidency.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Not only a bigot, but someone who apparently loves the sound of his own voice. I am proud that my newly immigrated small town Pennsylvania ancestors consulted their bibles, grabbed their guns and joined Mr. Lincoln’s Army, While a lot of good (mostly black as it turns out) people benefited from that, it also resulted in this jackass being able to say any old stupid thing that passes through his head.
By the way “Reverend”, I’m not your fucking oppressor. All the crack smoking spivs in downtown Chicago and Detroit and Washington DC who are spawning illegitimate kids and shooting each other are. Wonder what political party has run those lost causes for the last 50 years?