Rev. Jeremiah Wright has retired but he's still in the limelight.
Wright is in the middle of a media blitz.
On Friday, Bill Moyers interviewed Wright. Video and full transcript here.
Sunday, Wright was the keynote speaker at the Detroit branch of the NAACP 53rd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner.
Wright's tour continues today.
Wright's appearance today at the National Press Club will begin the annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference. The conference, named for the noted religious scholar, will bring black religious leaders from across the country to Howard University. And at the center of the discussions will be the powerful and provocative tenets of liberation theology.
"Powerful and provactive" is a sanitized way of putting it. Angry and divisive might be more appropriate. In short, lies.
At Wright's NAACP speech Sunday, Barack Obama's spiritual mentor didn't sound like he did with Bill Moyers. This was not the soft-spoken Wright we saw with Moyers. The Wright who showed up at the NAACP dinner was the one we've come to know.
Watch the speech.
Jake Tapper writes:
Most of Wright's speech addressed the theme of the dinner, “A Change is Gonna Come,” talking about the differences between different cultures and races, saying "a change is coming because we no longer see others as being deficient…Different doesn't mean deficient."
"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."
Wright discussed how different groups have seen other groups as "deficient." After saying English-speakers saw Arabic-speakers as "being deficient," Wright mentioned Obama almost as an aside.
"Please run and tell my stuck-on-stupid friends that Arabic is a language -- is a language, it is not a religion," he said. "Barack HUSSEIN Obama," he said, emphasizing the Illinois senator's middle name dramatically, "Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Barack HUSSEIN Obama. There are Arabic-speaking Christians, there Arabic-speaking Jews, Arabic-speaking Muslims and Arabic-speaking atheists. Arabic is a language, it is not a religion. Stop trying to scare folks by giving them this Arabic name like it's some disease."
The bulk of his remarks addressed, however, different groups seeing each other as deficient. He acted out the differences between marching bands at predominantly black and predominantly white colleges. "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." And so on.
Oh my God. Wright is a real piece of work.
Because of his close and decades-long relationship with Barack Obama, Wright certainly knew that everything he said and did during his address would be analyzed.
"White people clap differently than black people"?
Really?
Africans and African-Americans "have a different way of learning"?
Their brains are different? Does science back that up?
This is racist tripe.
If you wondered whether the portions of Wright's sermons picked up and played by the media unfairly depicted Wright, wonder no more.
I wonder if Obama claps like his mom or his dad.
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