Reverend Wright

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Somebody tell this guy to shut the hell up! Wright has been on a national tour over the last few days to try to salvage his reputation. Unfortunately, he’s doing so at the expense of Barack Obama.

 

Bill Moyers conducted an interview with Reverend Wright in which Wright stated he was a reverend and will do what he does and that Barack Obama was being a politician and doing what politicians do.

 

He repeated the same line a couple of days latter with the National Press Club. Reverend Wright’s comments are calculated and have a specific intent, to get back at Obama for distancing himself from the controversial preacher.

 

This clearly demonstrates to me that his statements are clearly premeditated, strategic, and are made to cause a desired effect. Reverend Wright is way too bright for his he’s-a-politician remarks to have been anything but calculated and intentional.

 

Think about it, here’s why he has an axe to grind. Before Obama, not many people outside of his Chicago parish knew of Reverend Wright. Then, all of a sudden, because he has the ear of potentially the next President of the United States, he’s now a national figure in the African-American community.

 

When the toxicity of Reverend Wright’s words came back to haunt him, there was no amount of ram’s blood that would be sufficient to make the public opinion’s Angel of Death pass over his persona.

 

So Obama, rightfully so, divorced himself from Wright. Actually, no so much from Wright himself, but from his words and sentiments.

 

Wright no longer had his ticket to widespread legitimacy in the Black community. Rather than stay quiet on the subject, Wright has gone on the offensive to protect his identity and legacy. There are two problems with that.

 

One is that the harder he tries to show that he’s not a nut or a caricature, the more he proves that he is. He speaks one way to Bill Moyers and a White audience and quite a different way to African American audiences. He’s tried to make Obama look disingenuous by saying “…he’s a politician…” but who’s the one being disingenuous when you speak a different message depending on the crowd? Maybe you are the politician Reverend Wright!

 

The other problem is that in his effort to protect his ego, he may be taking down the best chance the African-American community has ever had a putting a Black man in the Whitehouse. Barack Obama stated yesterday that he basically felt like it was now personal. He looked like it pained him to sever the relation with Reverend Wright, but it was a long time coming.

 

C’mon Reverend Wright, take loud shirts, find an island full of tourists wearing equally loud shirts, and go on an anonymous vacation until say, Thanksgiving?

 

When you come back, Obama will be President-elect and you can go back to your parish.