Posted on 04/28/2008 9:28:52 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Jeremiah Wright will literally say anything. He doesn’t just commit gaffes in the boring, pedestrian fashion of a Senator running for President. He studies how to go over the top the way Michelangelo studied sculpture. His malapropisms, quite simply, are masterpiece works of art.
This brings us to Dr. Wright’s forays into the hitherto fore defunct discipline of polygenism. This theory posits that different human races came from different ancestries and hence have different racial traits. This mistaken belief formed the gravamen of Dr. Louis Agassiz’s skepticism towards Charles Darwin. It also got cited, along with parts of the Bible, as a rearguard defense of slavery during the 19th Century.
Today, this so-called scientific racism still gets used to excuse and justify it’s less analytical cousin raw-throated bigotry. Dr. Wright attempts to explain the biological differences in the races below.
"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."
He went on to say that it wasn’t just him that was being attacked. The entire Black religious experience was in the line of fire, according to Reverend Wright. He described his recent controversies as an "attack on the black church, not an attack on Jeremiah Wright."
"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."
This may be true, but he claims that this should entitle him to an indulgence for a lot of things that he personally has said. These are things that most pastors at other predominantly black churches would probably keep out of the public arena, even if they were occasionally uncharitable enough to think them.
"We have never apologized for slavery. We have never apologized for Japan." He remarks. I can only imagine what he would have thought about the carnage to several hundred thousand soldiers and Marines running up Japanese beaches and leveling flame-throwers. Reverend Wright quotes a blame America First line that not even Bill Clinton was willing to seriously countenance.
He then cited the grim example of The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment as evidence that the US Government really could have invented HIV as a way to control minority populations. Amazingly, he isn’t convinced that the quasi-private sector activities of Planned Parenthood aren’t also part of the same conspiracy.
Then, like the hypocritical apologists for slavery in the bad old days of yore, he starts brutally misappropriating the scriptures.
"In Biblical history, there isn't a word between Genesis and Revelation that wasn't written during one of six eras of oppression. Says he was comparing oppressions... Imperialism was going on in Luke... We have troops stationed all over the world. We rule the world."
Of course those American troops behave nothing like the legionnaires summoned by an angry Herod Agrippa to deal with the newborn Jesus of Nazareth. They also enforce no laws requiring people in foreign lands to worship the emperor.
When sectarian terrorists destroyed one of the oldest Muslim shrines in Iraq, the US set to work in helping them rebuild it. Rev. Wright’s analogy comparing US soldiers to the troopers sent by Rome to enforce taxation, conscription and emperor worship in Judea is so badly flawed that it teeters between hatefully insulting and gob-smacking ignorant.
I claim no depth of expertise on the religious practices of African-Americans. From what I’ve seen and heard anecdotally; they do not mirror the paranoid rants of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. To see the spotlight move from Martin Luther King, Jr. who marched primarily to end segregation, to Reverend Jeremiah Wright suggesting that the two races are so different that they have profound biological differences that almost require a different biological taxonomy, is to see how far modern liberalism has fallen since the assassination of President Kennedy.
The next time Jeremiah Wright wants to take up scientific inquiry, I hear that the The London Phrenology Company is in search of its next Franz Joseph Gall.
I say it's both but I like that phrase, "gob-smacking ignorant", it fits liberals in general.
Hard to believe, but Obama’s engineered the worst train wreck in race relations that I’ve witnessed in 40 years.
I watched part of his speech to the NAACP. He was going on and on about how blacks learn differently versus whites, in that blacks learn and think using the right brain - the creative part of the brain and white learn and think using the left brain - the logical part of the brain.
What a load of codswallop. We are going to need a bigger wheelbarrow before this guy in done spewing this BS all over America.
Yeah there isn’t really much of a history of creativity in the Western European Tradition /sarc
Some of them, for example, are incapable of learning that slavery ended two centuries back, that Jim Crow ended during the last century, that a black Secretary of State and Supreme Court Justice aren't really "white inside", that most people both white and black are offended by racists, and that if you compare the average income in all of Africa with the amount paid poor people who won't work in this country, things are pretty sweet.
>>Dr. Jeremiah Wright; one giant step backwards for America!
I hereby propose that any person that has worn the Marine Corps uniform and then bring discredit to the Corps by words, deeds or actions - be referred to as ex-Marine.
Front and center, Murtha; Wright; Oswald; Chapman
But...but...he's the "unifying candidate" who's going to "bring us together for a frank discussion of race"?!?!
The Herod of Matt. 2 (the story of the Magi) is Herod the Great. Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee, was the one who killed John the Baptist and who is mentioned in the Passion narratives. Herod Agrippa, his nephew and a grandson of Herod the Great, is the one who figures in the Acts of the Apostles.
Thank you for the correction.
What was outrageous is that the government concealed the nature of their illness from them and withheld treatment, long after penicillin was available and long after any possible benefit to medical knowledge from the experiment (if there ever was any).
I’m not sure what your sarcasm means, but all races have creative people, but no race is totally creative with learning and thinking coming from the creative side of the brain. It’s HS.
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Of course there are. My sarcasm was directed at the Reverend’s assertion that there is some sort of ‘blacks are creative’/’whites are logical’ divide.
I’m feeling a little slow today, I got it now.
It appears that he was trying to explain away why blacks don’t learn at the same pace as whites - it seems that way too much logic is used to teach kids, all kids and blacks just cannot suck in all that logic, they need creative thoughts and experiences - he pointed to the fact that so many blacks know all the words to all the hip-hop songs, but just don’t get reading, writing etc - it’s way to logical.
Basically, we are doomed in that the black ‘thing’ just will not go away, no matter how many opportunities and money that we throw at it. They just do not want to get on board.
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