It’s not racist if you’re black…
One of the strangest things about the NAACP Wright pseudo-scientific speech on learning, and its enthusiastic CNN coverage and analysis, was the abject racialism of Wright. It was sort of an inverse Bell-Curve presentation, based on assumed DNA differences.
His convoluted explanation of African-American right-brain ‘oral’ culture as more creative, musical, and spontaneous versus European left-brain traditional analysis could never have been given by someone white to that audience without justifiably earning booing and catcalls.
Three comments: this was just the sort of racist ‘genetic’ difference that most Americans learned to shun, now apparently quite acceptable again, and part of the mainstream.
Second, there is no evidence that so-called Europeans could not “rap” or create an oral literature as well as Africans — remember, oral poetry as we know it , began with bards like Homer somewhere in the southeastern Aegean and continued into modern times in the Balkans.
Three, some of the most accomplished speakers of English and analytical thinkers are African-Americans, a fact everyone immediately recognizes from what they read and with whom they speak.
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.” victor davis hanson, the corner
A week or so ago in my commentsDr. Dawg objected to even going to Kevin Michael Grace’s site as Kevin has links to Steve Sailer [ And, Dawg, I warn you Steve says many of the same things Rev. Wright has just said albeit with a bit more rigor] and V-Dare. Based on Rev. Wright’s star turn at the NAACP does this mean Dawg will cease visiting sites which link to Obama? I ask because Rev. Wright, Obama’s spiritual guide for many, many years has now gone on record with remarks which pretty much confirm, and indeed surpass, Steve Sailer’s speculations about race.
Poor Obama.
Written by jay on April 29th, 2008 with
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#1. April 29th, 2008, at 3:57 AM.
A couple of weeks ago a black American boxer named Bernard Hopkins, a legendary, all-time great who held the middleweight title for a decade, lost his (newly acquired) light heavyweight title to an undefeated and unflaggingly polite Welshman named Joe Calzaghe. During the promotional run up before the fight Hopkins repeatedly got in Calzaghe’s face and shouted menacingly “I would never lose to a white boy! I would never lose to a white boy.”
You could see in the undefeated Calzaghe’s face that there was no conceivable way to directly respond to what Hopkins was saying; given Hopkins’ words even a stupid retort like “Oh yeah?” would have been making reference to race.
The word “racism” is a weapon used bluntly against just one particular group — only whites can be racist, in effect. James Brown used to shout “say it, I’m black and I’m proud!”, and thousands of black men would punch their fists into the air. How much funky fun would it be if a white guy named “Werner Schmidt” did the same, with “white”, and got the same reaction from the same sized crowd? Very little, I’m guessing.