There's so much I want to say about "Reverend" Wright's two appearances in the past 48 hours--first his speech to the NAACP, and second his Press Club appearance this morning, but others have outdone me, so I'll just list them here:
Blogmother supreme had this to say:
If you didn’t see Rev. Wright’s speech that CNN showed the other night, or haven’t watched any clips, you’re so missing out. Mostly on the lesson that black people and white people are, in fact, genetically different (apparently the billions of Arabs, Asians, and Indians do not count in this equation). For example, white babies learn from objects hung over their cribs, while black babies learn from a person.My mom will be disappointed to know that she didn’t teach her four children the Proper White Method, since she didn’t do what all the other whiteys do, which is stick a baby in a crib and hang shit over it and leave it alone. No seriously. That’s what he said.
Wright also went on and on about how historically, “people” believed that different meant deficient. Except the only examples he gives, which are many, were all the ways honkeys viewed the differences of blacks as deficient. Such as, lovers of Mozart thought lovers of jazz were deficient. He goes on…and on…and on about this. It’s always Whitey hating on Darkey. He never breathes a single word about any of the ways blacks themselves have been just as racist and dickheaded as everyone else. Which they always have been and still are now.
He also goes into great detail about how honkeys are left-brained (logical, problem-solving) while blacks are right-brained (creative, intuitive). No “some”, no “generally” - it’s as though he has taken the Human Genome Project and analyzed it himself and come up with these simple facts, which are not facts at all but garden-variety bullshit. I wonder what the authors of the Bell Curve would think about it. You know, those guys who were excoriated for suggesting there are genetic differences in the brains of different races.
Michelle Malkin blogged live from the Press Club:
A piece of work, this guy. A rude, racist, self-righteous piece of work.
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.
Um, yeah, you can bet on it!