Monday morning engine-starter: Jeremiah Wright, racial phrenologist
Good morning, people. I’ll be on Fox and Friends at around 8:15am to talk politics. Today’s engine-starter is The American Digest’s post on Jeremiah Wright’s racial brain theories.
Do you remember nutball racialist professor Leonard (Blacks are “sun people,” whites are “ice people.”) Jeffries?
Jeremiah Wright is the Leonard Jeffries of 2008.
First, watch this:
I’ll transcribe later this morning. (Update: Full transcript is here.)
Gerard Van der Leun roasts Wright:
“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 wandering 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.
As I noted yesterday, Wright acted out the differences between black and white marching bands. Jake Tapper mentioned it parenthetically:
“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.
If he’s this comfortable mocking black/white differences in front of media cameras, I can only imagine what he says in private to his faithful black liberation ideology adherents.
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Question: If “white people clap differently than black people,” how does Barack Obama clap?
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Double standards, anyone?
- Ed Morrissey recalls the firestorm the authors of “The Bell Curve” faced.
- Commenter crashemt writes: “Does this mean we need to apologize to Jimmy the Greek, who pointed out differences in physiology based on evolutionary upbringing?”
- Noting Wright’s expert opinion that Europeans have seven tones and Africans have five, commenter rbb answers my question about how Barack Obama claps: “Six?”
Har.
My liveblog of Wright’s National Press Club rant is here.
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VDH:
Wright’s speech on black-right brainers, white-left brainers — replete with bogus stereotypes and crude voice imitations — was about as racist as they come and at one time antithetical to what the NAACP was once all about. Again, the Obama campaign and its appendages have set back racial relations a generation. Just ten years ago, any candidate, black or white, would have rejected Wright making a speech about genetic differences in respective black and white brains. Now it’s given to civil rights organizations by the possible next President’s pastor and spiritual advisor — and done to wild applause for an organization founded on the idea that we are innately the same, while being gushed over by ignorant “commentators.”
Blogger FutureMD calls Wright the new Rich Little and observes:
His negation that black people are not different (which, he suggests, is whitey short-hand for “deficient” — a topic he touched on in the Moyers interview), and then going into a long discourse on how genetically superior black people are, was just for starters.
It became too much for me when he did his John F. Kennedy impersonation (to call it mocking wouldn’t be amiss)…saying that no one criticised he and his brother, “Ed”, for having accents, but they do black kids.
I can’t believe anyone with an undamaged prefrontal cortex would suggest that poor grammar/syntax and regional accents are one and the same.
JFK asked not, not axed not…in fact, neither does Senator Obama and that’s why he’s successfully running for President.
Highlights of Wright’s white/black performance in Detroit in case you missed them:
UPDATE (See-Dubya): Hmmmmm…has Cuffy found the Ragin’ Rev’s ghost writer?
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I watched some of his talk on Fox this morning and this guy is scary with all the hostility and hatred he projects.
I forget, shows my lack of griot genes, do wacko conspiracy theories like “The White Man invented AIDS to kill the Black Man” come from the left brain or right brain?
I wonder if AIDS will descend on his house in lily-white Tinley Park?
Martin Luther King said,
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
He must be spinning in his grave.
Answer: I don’t know, but it sounds like one hand clapping twice.
Does this mean we need to apologize to Jimmy the Greek, who pointed out differences in physiology based on evolutionary upbringing?
As a side note, I saw Obama’s campaign yesterday in the Robin Williams movie, “Man of the Year”. Funny to watch him, Lewis Black, and several other of Hollywood’s intelligencia rip on campaigns without substance. Of course, they countered those campaigns in the movie with scenes that resembled a revival church that amazingly, also lacked substance.
Any way we cut this cake, America is being served cow pies for the next 4 years.
Are these three really the best that America has to offer?
A whole world of uncomfortable theories have been unleashed by Dr. Jeremiah Wright. Not only uncomfortable, but unsupportable as well. What are we to make of African-Americans who excel at left-brained thinking? What about the descendants of Europeans who are right-brained, at least based on their creativity? Did I just hear this man give support to racial stereotyping, with the argument that races (at least black and white) are “different,” not “deficient”? And what happens when a white man says African-Americans are physically more likely to have certain athletic abilities because of their genetics. Oh, I remember, they’re racists. Man, this is more than my left-brained head can keep up with early in the morning. I guess I’ll go clap in 2-4 time. Have I got that right, or whould I say, Wright?
I have to ask myself if these folks ‘really’ want to start touting idiotic racial differences after the long and incredibly hard road they have walked to get so far?
well, Marxism is right brained, and most blacks are Marxists.
so, i guess he’d be correct.
Six?
Won’t be long before he, as another black reverend, will run for some office in some inner-city. He’ll win by a landslide. Of course, “defend and protect the Constitution” will mean nothing to him, like many in office today, but who would care? He’ll buddy-up with Sharpton, ignore his consituents, and go on a personal crusade to make money on racial division.
So some students should be excused for climbing on their desks during class because they’re black?
Thank goodness Rev Wright is not running for President. Thank goodness that everyone does not walk lock step with their Ministers with regard to politics.
Did anyone notice in the Moyers interveiw with Rev Wright that ‘the chickens coming hime to roost’ was a quote from the NY Times?
And, our foreign policy does produce results from abroad.
France gave us the Statue of Liberty in recognition of how we conduct ourselves and for what we profess to believe. Those Cherry trees from Japan that surround the tidal basin on the Potomac River in Wash, DC were also a gift acknowledging the good we have done around the globe. Immigration to the US is also an example of our foreign policy and how it comes back to impact us. Too bad Rev Wright did not mention the positive elements of our foreign policy that have come home to roost.
Excuse me, too bad the article, that Rev Wright quoted from, did not mention the positive elements of our foreign policy that have come home to roost.
This Jeremiah Wright guy is no Nicolaus Copernicus. Where the hell does this guy get his scientific data from on racial genetics? Is it from Dr. Josef Mengele or inside a box of Cracker Jacks?
…I claped for Wright – with one hand.
Excuse me for raining on the parade – but many are citing from a Bill of Rights which I didn’t learn in school. It DOES NOT say “all men are created equal”. Instead, the Bill of Rights says (paraphrasing) “all men are created equal with respect to certain rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. It is equality with respect to rights, not outcomes.
This guy could be another Hitler if he had the political chops…
He has the crazy race hatred part down pat!!!
I wonder what Bill Cosby thinks about these “education” insights.
A box of Cracker Jacks! Double-entendre nicely packaged. This guy is so blatantly racist that no one should misconstrue his message nor his intent.
A clear choice faces us this year. I have seen this country’s morals fall in the late 1960s and wonder if we can ever recover to our original declarations.
This jackass is a con-man pure and simple. He looks into the crowd and says what he knows will enthrall them…then he got caught.
Has he explained the aids comment yet?
Anyone?
The amazing irony is that Wright is at least 3/4 caucasian. His black 1/4 has spent his entire life hating his white 3/4. Considering that he was raised in an affluent neighborhood in Philadelphia and attended an exclusive almost all white high school, I wonder where this self-hate springs from?
If any scientist made the mistake of pointing out genetic differences between the races they would be hounded and ridiculed by the MSM until they recant or banished to obscurity, as James Watson recently found out. The talking heads were already gushing over this fools speech last night. His profound insight will be loudly acclaimed and his detractors will be dismissed as racists. What a crazy, upside down world the USA has become.
Two places:
1. his love of power (the adulation of his followers) and
2. his love of money (the tangible show of adulation by his followers)
Wasn’t Hitler part Jewish?
I figure if Obama dances like a white guy, and bowls like a white guy, he must clap like a white guy.
Travis. Sounds like a few “rappers” who grew up in affluence and now act like they were “ghetto” and “that’s the way it is”! What a scam.
Ron is right.
Wright believes in racial stereotyping.
However, there are very few African genes in American blacks.
Obama’s father was an African from Kenya, but he was raised by his white mother and grandmother. He was not even treated as a black until he went to school with all those Asians in Hawaii.
Wright is deluding himself and his church members.
The oral tradition of the Old Testament was kept by Jews, not black Africans.
Barack and Michelle have succeeded so far because they abandoned the hip hop for Princeton, Harvard, and the upper class.
Why do Barack and Michelle still sit in the pew listening to Wright’s racist rants? Why do they let their daughters listen to Wright?
Only thing missing from his routine is the red nose and big feet.
His explanation reminds me of the 1930s German films trying to explain the racial differences of the superior Arian race vs. the inferior genes of the evil Jews. What’s next is he going to come up with his final solution on how Whitey, the Uncle Tom’s, Asians, or left minded conservatives should be dealt with. Instead of going off the radar screen Reverend (I used the term with great reservations) Wright just keeps on digging deeper and deeper.
And still the media looks on him favorably? *stunned amazement*
Wow. This black fellow SCARES me. We need to make sure that all white Americans know just how scary he really is because in Pennsylvania for instance, about 30 percent of registered Republicans have not yet been scared enough into supporting our nominee. Keep this good work up Michelle!
My heart sank as I heard Wright say this last night. It shows yet again that good people can believe bad things. Einstein refused to believe quantum mechanics. If he had his way, there would be no transistor (based on a quantum mechanical effect) and no computers.
As with Einstein, we must take the good and leave the bad behind. In Wright’s case, the good includes decades of community service.
yes, promoting/preaching racial divide does wonders for the community.
Man, this is like the racist pseudoscience of the nineteenth century all over again, only this time it’s saying that whites’ brains are less evolved than blacks’ and not the other way around. Are they gonna draw up diagrams showing how similar white brains are to chimpanzee brains, too?
Well, they used to. Wright is citing old science as fact. If a white minister pointed out that there are studies that show black are monkeys (and there are some) he would be in jail for hate crimes. Remember the old – blacks are inferior because they have sickle-cell disease science?
I am right brained. Someone should study how a southern redneck who’s relatives are French Canadian and came across the pond from France (white Europeans) could end up right brained. It might be an interesting study. Sheesh, it could be interesting to find out if I have a brain at all!
would that be the community where his house is being built?
In this case, I think it’s better to throw out the baby with the water.
lucifer was a good musician – clown.
Community service? You mean like ripping off his “community” for a $2,000,000 house, and $10,000,000 line of credit?!?!?
How many poor, black children could be saved with that money?
I ask myself the same question every day.
Nice that the resident troll predictably comes to defense of a far-left, black supremacy racist loon.
Hussein Obama could be caught in a menage a trois with his adoring, fawning fans Olbermann and Matthews and the kool-aid drinking obama cultists would spin it positively.
And yet Obama says that McCain is playing the old politics of divisiveness? Really want to see how putrid jackasses like ayers, dorhn and wright will bring us all together. All those “yoots” who think hussein be da man are clueless twerps. Keep on watching the Daily Show though. Funny how one comic strip today referred to demolitioncrats and republapelpins.
….the answer is YES.
The black community is a disaster, and Wrights racism and lgm’s justifications are the reason why
What does this ‘different brains’ theory do to the underpinnings of affirmative action?
He’s speaking now and says the attacks on him were really attacks on the Black Church. Is this called playing the race card?
1. Obviously, “Pastor” Wright has placed his wishes before others by using this media frenzy to pedal this dribble without admixture despite the impact it may have on his church member, Barak Hussein Obama. This in itself is very telling. Not a very good shepherd in my estimation.
2. As an extension to “Pastor” Wright’s wishes, he has succeeded in years gone by and continues today to peddle this race hatred to line his own pocket book. It is apparently popular to paint each of his members as underdogs and part of the oppressed; therefore, he has spued this doctrine of devils for his own benefit. He is definately a hireling and not a true shepherd.
3. It is fascinating to me to see folks treat others with such disrepect and them demand everyone else give them the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that Wright and his crowd think they deserve.
4. I am not predujice about color (I am a white guy married to a black woman); however, I am very predujiced against UGLY and VULGAR. “Reverend” Wright abounds in both of these.
Racist Wright will always wallow in his own petard ranting on and on as he does. This is a chances for everyone to see a true narcissist in action. It ain’t pretty!
I didn’t realize this. Obviously I could see he was part white, but 3/4ths white? That may explain a lot according to his own believe system. His white part has a God complex, and it is using the black part to express it
Obama is only 1/2 white, so that God complex is not fully expressed yet.
BTW: In 1971 while stationed in the Army, I had to listen to an album played by a few of the black muslim soldiers in my platoon. It kept saying that the “White man has a God complex.”
Now I see the link with Farrakan and Wright.
Can someone ask the real KKK if they agree with Wright on this? I’m guessing they do.
Talk about a giant step backwards.
The guy is doing the same thing right now , that he did in his “Church”. He is using blacks to promote his own agenda.He will be the NEW Shapton and cause more hate to surface . Why does he Never talk of Illegals taking Black jobs ? Or all the Black gangs against Latino gangs in LA ?
Is there 1 white person in this country willing to stand up to him ? NO !!! because we have been conditioned by mind control that they are depressed by the white man.And they is the Fact that any white man who spoke up would get No support from whites cause we just don’t have the cajones to raise a little hell any more . We are a afraid to stand up for our selves. This is what i see every day !!!
This funny. You are now equating Wright with Einstein. That is just too much – LOL!
I like hominy griots, better than corn griots, and instant griots best of all…’specially with butter.
oh wait…nevermind
What did it sound like?
The more he talks, the more idiotic he sounds. No intelligent person can listen to this junk and actually defend the man!
lgm you have really outdone yourself in post #29… equating Einstein in some way with Wright… you have proven yourself either a world class idiot or (more probably)just some dweeb who gets his kicks “baiting the righties”..
sick stuff my man…
oh and one more thing lgm..
“As with Einstein, we must take the good and leave the bad behind. ”
don’t tell me what i must do, thanks..
radio relay said (#36):
You should examine the finance of right wing ministers Robertson, Dobson, and the like before criticizing Wright.
I have a few good friends who are black. Maybe it’s time to discuss this with them?
max said (#53):
It’s a suggestion.
I guess we also have to apologize to former Air Force football coach Fisher DeBerry for saying they lost to TCU because TCU “had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did. Afro-American kids can run very well. That doesn’t mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can’t run, but it’s very obvious to me that they run extremely well.”
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Like lgm try to make a coherent statement – dead air
Like conservative Republicans cheering for McCain – dead air
Like money dropping in the RNC coffers – dead air
Like the MSM reporting on the good news in Iraq – dead air
Like Wright speaking about loving your brother – dead air
Thanks. I can skip my lunch now.
You should check the the finances of Jesse Jackson, and umpteen other race baiting, left wing, black ministers before you type one keystroke!
Not to mention your other leftwing, America hating “heroes”. You might start with your benefactor George Soros.
Since Obama had a white mother and a black father which side of the brain does he use? Maybe this explains his lousy bowling score. He doesn’t know which side to use.
There. I fixed it for you, lgm. I figured it must be a typo or something.
And TCU’s marching band was much better!
lgm sayeth:
You belong at a Pete Seeger concert smokin’ Woodstock rye grass or something.
Is anyone starting to get the idea that the candidacy of Barrack Obama is just a
hoax, and that the entire
Democratic primary process was just a charade, with the objective being the portrayal of Hillary Clinton as a moderate by comparison.
I haven’t seen anyone going after Hillary’s radical extremism lately, especially her 1969 commencement address at Wellesley College.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/844024/posts
Dobson has been investigated by the IRS.
The IRS has cleared one of the nation’s leading pro-family conservatives of accusations that he endangered his organization’s nonprofit status by endorsing Republican candidates in 2004.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070911/29258_IRS_Vindicates_Focus_on_the_Family,_Dobson.htm
has the wrong Rev Wright ever been?? I’m sure you’ll call for an immediate investigation into the wrong Rev Wright. (right)
Someone needs to compare the reception this speech is getting from liberals to that of The Bell Curve.
And ask Obama the direct question: Do blacks and whites have different brains?
Who better to speak on racism than a racist?
ConservativeRus, the Declaration of Independence is the source of “all men are created equal”, not the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Sorry to rain on your parade.
lgm: tell us exactly, if you can, how Einstein could have prevented the invention of the transistor by “having his way”. Did he actually try to prevent the transistor from being invented? Why did being wrong about quantum mechanics make Einstein “bad”?
IOW You’ve written another laughably illogical post. That you claim to work in the field of mathematics, perhaps teaching it, is downright scary. Seeing YOU hold yourself out as morally and intellectually superior to Albert Einstein is just sickening.
At long last, sir, have you no shame?
right4life said (#66):
Yes, it is legal to live large on the contributions of your parishioners. And it’s legal for Jesse Jackson too. That doesn’t make it seemly.
They learn differntly than white people.That goes without saying.They expect to get payed to learn because we owe them that.
go ahead and post your proof about Dobson living large.
I don’t remember Dobson or Robertson going before corporations and doing a shake-down..does any of Dobson’s or Robertson’s sons have an Anheuser-Busch distributorship??? just wondering…
oh yeah I didn’t notice your call for the IRS to investigate the wrong Rev. Wright…guess you just forgot huh??
OK, I’ll give him this…back in the fifties I remember the black high schools marching band at the Christmas parade had much more energy and rhythm than the white high school bands.
Yet, you defend wrong Rev. Wright and constantly bash Robertson and Dobson (even though they do tremendous amounts of “good”).
Your redirection and constant thread jacking makes you beyond a troll and this attempt to hold up the wrong Rev. Wright as good while portraying Robertson and Dobson as bad is by far your worst attempt to shed light on the actual thread (not to mention the worst example of hypocrisy to date). Dude, see a doctor. You have a brain tumor.
fulldroolcup said (#68):
If people had accepted Einstein’s view that quantum mechanics was wrong (the uncertainty principle, actually), they would not have taught it, the people who would have invented the transistor would not have learned it, and the transistor would not have been invented.
Einstein expressed his opinion about quantum mechanics but he did not try to suppress the opinions of others.
I didn’t say he was bad. If his only contribution to science had been opposition to QM, it would have been a negative one. His overall effect on science was positive, due to his other famous contributions.
We’re talking about science, not morals. What I said about him is what most scientists think — right about most things but wrong on a few. He was a brilliant human, not a saint or an oracle.
You’re so cute. This phrase was used to finally take down the conservative of the day, Joe McCarthy.
Can “Hail to the Chief” be played in only 5 tones? Could 50 Cent do a rewrite? But could the Marine Corp Band even play it? There is a lot to consider here! Change is hard!
New gang warfare: Clappers vs. Rappers
Maybe because at this point she is irrelevant.
It is time for the Church of Christ to distance itself from this nonsense.
The leadership in that church has to end this charade and pull their connection with this hate-monger.
Does this mean my “clapper” will not recognize a black clap? At least my nite lite is safe…
So basically he’s saying all black children should be raised as minstrels.
What a nutjob.
It is obvious, Wright needs to be chosen as Obamas running mate – they will make a great pair.
True… and we have to remember that Hitler did Make the trains run on time. Oh! and he gave us that wonderful legacy of the Volkswagen, the People’s Car! so, yeah, let’s leave the bad behind.
Seriously, I listened for about 10 minutes and all I heard was “blah. blah, blah, the Pope oppresses people with his top-down theology.. blah, blah blah. And with raised hackles, I listened to his encomium on Liberation Theology, which is nothing but socialism, communism, wrapped in the imprimatur of God’s will. Didn’t Marx, Lenin, Trotsky et al. preach that socialism was destiny and any means to achieve it were justified?
Having the Reverend parse “what is, is” is nauseating. “I am not his mentor, I am his pastor!” What the h311 is that supposed to mean? The pastor guides you. This is the guidance that Barack was going to church for. You can certainly see Michelle got the message. He warned Barack, that if elected, I’m coming after you.
I don’t care how badly he bowls or how well he plays basketball. I don’t care how much he rejects the sayings of The Reverend, I will never believe Obama is not the Manchurian Candidate.
Oh, by the way, the h311 with the griots, the Greeks could memorize 10,000 lines of poetry. That’s how we have the Iliad and the Odyssey.
This is where it starts…the Democratic party nonimation is going to simply boil down to a race issue. God! Can we poke that wound a LITTLE harder? Maybe we can reopen it a bit more so it can fester & bleed.
I really wanna see Obama tap dance his a$$ away from THIS one! Pretty fly for a white guy.
What makes that any different for her today versus other days?
Oh. My. G-d. I heard this…person…on my TV again this morning, ranting about how we use B.Hussein’s middle name like it was a sickness. He himself used it something like six times in the soundbyte! He must be a Hillary supporter.
Rev. Wright is just the gift that keeps on giving. He’s a sound-byte-apalooza for the Fall election season.
I agree; however, J.Jackson usually strong arms to acquire his “contributions,” mostly from corporate America, under the threat of protest if they do not ante-up to the collection plate.
Funny. Einstein theorized the speed of light was constant and we know today it is not. So, how does that affect E=MC2 today?
Again, you prove you cannot make a coherent thought without inserting your own opinion (which, in case you did not know, is not fact).
So incredibly stupid. Whites are very diverse with varying degrees of left and right brainedness. I’ve met very left brained whites and very right brained whites. Stupid. As if there are no artists, poets and other right brained whites.
Mr. Wright, is it possible to see us as individuals???