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So now we've reached the final chapter in the Rev. Wright novella and my overall feeling after the entire sad soap opera is disappointment. Maybe I expected far too much. I had hoped that some of the truth behind many of Wright's comments would eventually be examined. I wasn't so naive as to think the media would admit that they got it wrong, but that Barack would find some way to improve the quality of our discourse. Unfortunately, Rev Wright turned out to be his own worst advocate - and Barack was left with no choice but to toss him under the bus, backup and start doing donuts. It's really Wright's own fault, the blame has to start with him and his Grandstanding. He got start-struck. He went Hollywood. He was drunk with the power of being in the spotlight and drove his own car into the ditch, with Barack's Presidency strapped into the passenger seat. I clearly understand that Barack had to cut him loose. I just wish he didn't have to. I wish he didn't have to confirm all those smug media pundicators who've spent the last month mostly debating just how high the railway bridge needed to be when Barack finally kicked Rev. Wright from the train. Those lazy ass-clown hacks don't deserve to be vindicated, and I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised. But, I admit I was surprised when Obama himself bought into the spin. Obama feels that Rev. Wright dissed him when he said that he was a pastor and Obama was politician. Somehow Wright's rather lengthy discussion before the NAACP on how some things can be different but not deficient, was completely missed. He wasn't insulting Barack by saying he was a "politician" - he is a politician. That's not a dirty word, it's just descriptive. The problem wasn't that Wright wouldn't repent and renounce his previous statements, it's that in some cases he simply refused to show any sensitivity to those who may disagree or misunderstand him. When he was asked whether Barack was in the pews when he was smack talking he said... MODERATOR: You just mentioned that Senator Obama hadn’t heard many of your sermons. Does that mean he’s not much of a churchgoer? Or does he doze off in the pews? WRIGHT: I just wanted to see — that’s your question. That’s your question. He goes to church about as much as you do. What did your pastor preach on last week? You don’t know? OK. Oh, OUCH! That wasn't pretty. He also didn't really take anywhere near the proper care he should have when he finally asked the AIDS question. MODERATOR: In your sermon, you said the government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. So I ask you: Do you honestly believe your statement and those words? http://www.truth2powerproject.com
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Mr Walton, What Really is Your Point? I listened to the entire speech Rev Wright delivered and I was moved to tears by his honesty and his eloquence. The man is brilliant. I also heard the Q and A and all I took away from that was how vapid and vacuous the questions were, and how they didn't have one damned thing to do with the talk he had just so eloquently delivered. An fine analysis of the phophetic tradition of which he was a part. The press looked damned stupid, and I for one, a middle aged white female, thougt Rev Wright had every reason to treat them and their ignorant attempts to change the subject and justify the last "slime job on his preaching" with the disdain those questions deserved. Why the hell should this man who exposed them as the mental midgits that they are, handle them with kid gloves? He struck me as a man who is sick and tired of racist fools and had no time for them. Why should he be considerate of the same folks who wrote the ugly narrative of his sermon taking the few lines cutting and pasting and runnng them in an endless loop? Would you have been as critical if he had been white? He is a man who speaks truth to power and he simply told these reporters the truth in no incertain terms. If they can't handle it, they should find other work. But then, god forbid! that a black man appear anything even remotely impatient or angry? And god forbid! he make a white person look like a fool to their face. That has always been a whites only privilage. I applaud Rev Wright for exposing the ugly wound of blatant racism that still pervades this country. And if you would, stop seeing everything he does in terms of how it impacts Obama. He has every right to defend himself against the bigots who attacked him and his preaching and his record. That is what this should be about. Not Obama. And for the record I am an Obama supporter, but he lost some of my respect for him in all of this--political necessity of not. by
Char Stellamaris (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 35 comments)
on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 7:22:26 PM
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