Reverend Wright Is Wrong

Give him credit, Jeremiah Wright is a fantastic showman. His speeches have been spellbinding and undoubtedly sent shivers up and down the spines of those watching and those in attendance. I found his message to be wrong and I wonder why there hasn't been a greater denunciation of the Reverend's
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Let's start with the matter of "different not deficient" and the right brain, left brain thing. I taught history for 32 years and had the opportunity to learn about the differences between right and left brained individuals at a conference for honor students at King of Prussia. I have lived with a right brain lady, pray for me, for 41 plus years and that trait carried over to our son and at least three of our four grandchildren. We are white. Two of the right brain grandchildren are teenage girls, one is a soon to be ten year old boy. All of them have an artistic bent some more so then others. My son and his son are ambidextrous. My son uses his right hand, not forced upon him, and my grandson uses his left hand to write but does a lot of other things with his right hand. Both, like my wife, are extremely interesting people because their minds function differently then my left brain mind. I would also wager that all of my right brain family members could clap to the African beat

Jeremiah Wright's attempt to some how make right brain dominate a black thing is absurd. His description of active boys was correct but white boys are also very active. This is why there are those in education stating we need to provide a school for boys where they can engage in physical activity. This is why we are creating separate schools for boys and girls. It is believed that children will learn better if they are separated by sex. Why? Because boys and girls are different

For Reverend Wright to call on God to damn the United States proves to me that this man has no understanding or chooses to ignore the history of this nation. On top of that he has shown that he is a bigot intent on initiating a racial conflict if white citizens do not adhere to their white guilt. Let's look at a little history.

Africans were brought to our shores in 1619 by the Dutch and long before the creation of the United States of America. Initially they were held like their white counterparts as indentured servants. It was the British, Dutch, eventually Americans and others who engaged in the slave trade and brought them to colonial shores. As the demand for cheap labor increased, Africans became slaves to work the land for a variety of crops both north and south

Slavery had become sticky issue by the time of the writing of the American Constitution. Contrary to what a lot of people think they know, there were discussions about what to do with the slaves. Many believed that slavery was going to eventually die out but many also wanted to keep their slaves. A compromise was reached and it wasn't a nice one. Slaves were to be recognized as three fifths of a person for census purposes because that controlled the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. However, the slave trade was also to come to an end twenty years after the ratification of the Constitution. Just the trade not the slavery itself. It wasn't perfect, but it was a step forward by Americans to end slavery. Many of those Founding Fathers believed that if slavery did not come to an end that we would end up in a battle and of course that would come true with the onset of the Civil War. Would the good reverend be damning us over that?

Reverend Wright who now lives in a very large home, 10,000 square feet, with a $10 million line of credit attached to it in a gated white community ought to be ashamed of himself. But he won't be because he is a racist and like his brothers in arms, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, he will continue to preach a message of hate hoping that white Americans will continue to feel guilty for something that went on some three hundred years ago. Reverend Wright you might have your own chickens come home to roost. And please consult Bill Cosby at your earliest convenience.