Boy, Have I taken some grief for supporting, and worse as a white guy, understanding Rastor Jeremiah Wright's discontent and apparently blasphemous dissent against this country. When, in the United States of America, did it become unacceptable to criticize the nation and its policies? But it isn't Pastor Wright, as the new weapon to bludgeon Obama with, and put the black boy in his place. rather it is the assertion of a black man, a repudiation of white hegemony, and the audacious refusal to be obedient, but instead a free and critical thinker.
But I concede. I will condemn and repudiate Pastor Wright if you righties repudiate and condemn Walmart, Target, and all the other so-called American corporations, and the Bush Administration with their whore-ish commercial intercourse with the Chinese government in light of their brutal crackdown in Tibet, and a litany of human rights abuses.
So apparently we haven't moved so far from the plantations and slavery as we believe. Black men are not entitled to be discontent in America. They are not entitled to aire grievances, ubless white America approves first, or unless those criticisms meet the standards of white America. That isn't the America I want, and that is precisely why change in this country is not only necessary, but imperative to our survival.
God bless America when it lives up to its founding principles, and, to paraphrase Pastor Wright, god damn her when she abandons those ideals.
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We are way too sensitive about our own feelings and totally dismissive of anyone else's. This is the great coup of the right-wing media/corporations. They massage and massage the sore points and divide the responders into ever smaller categories of mutually exclusive piles of humanity. It has become so that one cannot be a human being but only a category that others can either ignore or embrace but always only totally never with reservations.
Now that Obama has given his great speech perhaps there will be others like yourself who respond not to the presumed meanings of Rev. Wrights sermons but to where they are coming from and our response to that.
One can hope. In fact one must hope.