I wonder if those pundit clowns on Fix Noise will pick up on it.

We have very real and valid concerns as a people that do stem for the history of slavery, however, I do believe we need to own up to our own contribution to this continuing legacy – it’s time to take some responsibility for our own actions.

This speech is one for the archives.

Thanks for the vid!

BTW, I urge you to check out The Huffington Post titled “McCAIN:OBAMA DOES NOT SHARE WRIGHT’S VIEWS” -and comment #1 by Jackie W.(a White lady from Alabama)….It’s a powerful commentary for Obama following his speech.

Tom, truth can penetrate anything. Truth is stronger than cryptonite!

As his first name suggests, Dr. Wright seems to be preaching a JEREMIAD, of sorts. Compare the harsh, hyperbole-filled figurations he levies against those in HIS country who, willfully bereft of history, continue to oppress poor whites and non-whites, women, etc. with the rhetoric of Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah, Samuel, Elijah, Daniel, Hosea, Isaiah, and NT John the Baptist.

Much of his rhetoric about 9-11, the AIDS conspiracy, and the infiltration of drugs into urban communities has already been proclaimed by American thinkers who span political, identity, and cultural categories. Are they all crack-pots?

As an African American Republican who sometimes feels myself “blackened” by the rhetoric of race-based supremacy and HYPER-capitalism, I wish that we can name those moments when ALL of us are unfairly racialized by apartheid practices and other forms of godliness that deny the power thereof. We can start by trying to first understand and perhaps even trust those traumas that are imposed on us by cultural practices predicated on the myth of race. This means naming the demons and getting to the heart of the hyper-classification movement of the Enlightenment’s Carl Linnaeus, the “objective racism” of de Tocqueville and Hippolyte Taine, and (of course) the wrongheadedness of the Eugenics Movement, and strident, meaner elements of ethnocentrism–be it Afro or Euro.

And when “privileged” Americans of color such as Michelle and Barack and others decry the social injustices of OUR nation, they often (I assume) do so on behalf of those who are limited by race, gender, and class to show that the American Dream they now have was achieved not BECAUSE of their race, but IN SPITE of it. This is a trauma that whites must trust is true; for I think it leads to the beginning of naming and casting out the demons of division that continue to cripple our nation’s great potential.

And if the kamikaze politics of the Clintons should wrench from McCain or Obama the presidency, then flee to the hills O Judea ’cause with slick Billy as first spouse, he’ll have that White House looking like Ottawa of the 70s and early 80s. In fact, he’ll be the Margaret Trudeau of a new millenial America. Are we ready for that?