I love this guy, not for his blatant racism, but for his capacity to act like a human stinger missile locked directly onto Obama's campaign....
Via American Digest: Surprise, There is a Difference Between Black Brains and White Brains: Obama's Pastor Explains It All to You
"Different is not deficient." It would seem there is a profound difference between the black brain and other brains after all. At least according to Reverend Wright. According to this shining exemplar of Barack Obama and the deep scholarship of black liberation theology, black people are right-brained and white people are left-brained. Asian people don't make the discussion since that would be, well, unfortunate.
If you're like me you've probably been wondering about the world babbling something about racial equality in America that affirms, "There are no differences except differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference." You could also say, "All men are created equal." How left-brained of you.
Now comes Reverend James Wright to set us all straight. He notes in passing that the right-brain of black people is somehow descended from the griots of Africa. The griots were people who could remember long, very long, poems; proto-rappers if you will. White people had something like that too, but then they invented ... writing. Or was it the Asians? I forget since, alas, my griot genes are slim to none.
At any rate, being descended from griots seems to me to be a lucky win in genetic lotto if you get one of the 100 top rapper slots in the world. It will probably be a bit more problematic if you want to get a job that involves actual analytic skills.
More via ABC's Political Punch: Rev. Wright Delivers Fiery Address to NAACP
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.
ZIP

That Dr. Yakub(from Nation of Islam lore) sure was a hoot when he invented whitey. I'm amazed he wasn't mentioned by the eminent brain expert "Dr." Wright-he really should give credit where credit is due for this brain thing.
Posted by: | April 28, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I saw on FOX News this morning that Wright (I won't call him "reverend") is not being protected by the Nation of Islam because he got death threats...
He's no Christian.
Posted by: atheling | April 28, 2008 at 03:07 PM
He's not even close Atheling...
Posted by: ZIP | April 28, 2008 at 03:22 PM