The cultural truths behind Rev. Wright

Rev. Wright & Barack Obama:
The social and racial politics of Jim Crow and Black Liberation theology's affect in the 2008 Election

As sent to the Obama campaign and posted on their blog site:RACE & REV WRIGHT

From my black experience, the Rev's comments have been part of the shared communications between individual and groups of black people from Marcus Garvey to Elijah Muhammed's Nation of Islam to the secularly sainted Malcolm X. For black people there is little that Rev. Wright uttered that has not been said in barbershops, beauty salons, as well as on street corners between shared sips out of a bottle.

Though these comments and thoughts have and still do exist, their rhetorical currency is more passe in the context of today in which the more recent generations have lived a more culturally mixed experience. The resentment from de jure and de facto discrimination and segregation has been draining from the psyche of many to most black people. Even though these times are hard, black folks know first hand that there are white, brown, and other ethnics who share the same hardships that we face today-economically and culturally.

The expressions of Rev Wright are best characterized as the old school idiosyncracies that are heard, tolerated, but ignored as individual drama and his own personal entertainment that he has used in his formal position of promotion for his church: Everyone would come to see what the Rev is going to say next. He was the surrogate "crazy uncle in the attic" people could talk about during the week. The bombasticity of his sermons drowned out any serious points he was trying to make. The style and tone became the message instead of the context.

In THAT context is the explanation for the seemingly sanguine acceptance and association with the Rev.. Everyone has a "unique" relative with iconoclastic and provocative views. We, by blood or circumstance, personally have ties with them, but we can privately and openly disagree with their public demonstrations. As a Chicago-based politician, your association was not such a big deal, since he did not substantially influence your political or later spiritual development, as your speeches have articulated.

It is up to you to show that distinction of a broad spectrum of openness to people, but still being able to keep your own integrity and convictions despite the paradoxical odd-couplings you have in your personal realm.
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It will take the courageous few to undo the degradations of the boldy callous

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