Prometheus 6

Amen. What the GOP fears the most are his words 'Governments CHANGE' - oh yes, they most certainly DO. Amen to THAT too.

Yeah, well, seeing the whole sermon (or this part of it) would actually make things worse.  Because Wright speaks the truth about history, and whiteness (and those who build their identities on it) do not want to hear the truth about American history.  The problem for them here is a tone of voice or a kind of rhetoric, but rather the two realities on which Wright builds his argument: 1) White America has been powerfully unjust to Africans and African Americans; and 2) Unjust governments will be brought down from their position of seeming supremacy by the workings of their own injustices.  Since so many white Americans have made the denial of these two premises the cornerstones of their own civic religion, they are bound to pronounce the truth anathema and to seek to hunt down and punish those who speak it.  

Peggy's problem is she can't see straight: 

It seems to me, every time I look at a YouTube of Reverend Wright talking and doing his thing and saying his strange things, I notice two things.  One is that the people behind him look bored. Another is that frequently, not always, but when they pan to the crowd, his audience looks almost passive, like we are receiving this, we're hearing this, we know what's going on.  It seemed to me that in his statements, Wright was not just extreme, radical--we all know the words to say, because they are true--but that he was a throwback.  He was old-fashioned.  He himself was the voice of yesterday.  And I was wondering about the extent to which that audience and people like Bare-rack *her pronunciation* and Michelle Obama know he is yesterday, and yet he has some wonderful things within him as a human being.  I just throw that open as a possibility.

 

This was after Charles Krauthammer's commentary was brought up contradicting the very thing she wanted to claim:

"It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well." 

 

Maybe Obama is "uniquely" situated to speak to things he sees in White America and Black America but I think it would serve White America well, Peggy in particular, if they would acknowledge what's in plain view. 

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Who is Peggy?

Peggy Noonan, on Meet the Press today.