GOODY TWO SHOES: Flash For The Newsroom: Reasonable People Know A Racist, Anti-American Rant When They Hear One
Without a doubt, the most preposterous article The Stiletto has read on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s interpretation of the gospel, is this one from USA Today, headlined: “Wright’s Style Confuses Some Obervers.” Reporter Cathy Lynn Grossman educates readers on the finer points of Wright’s obscenity-laced, bellicose sermonizing:
[M]any who heard his recent addresses are puzzled by Wright's theological references and startled by his powerhouse delivery.
Wright appears to be casting himself as a prophet, shouting out a stern and unpopular message, emulating the biblical Jeremiah, sent by God to scold the wayward people of Israel and forecast God's wrath.
In his televised talks with Bill Moyers, his address to the NAACP in Detroit and the press club appearance in Washington, Wright used words and phrases such as “homiletics,” “hermeneutics,” “black liberation theology” and “prophetic tradition,” and he not only shouted his points, but he also sang, chanted, mocked and even danced a step or two. … [Explanatory links added by The Stiletto.]
"Someone reading the Exodus story who was a slave would read it differently than the white master on that same plantation," says J. Kameron Carter, associate professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke University Divinity School. "Hermeneutics isn't whether you have the Scripture right or wrong, it's the sunglasses you're wearing when you read it and when you look out at the world."
Teresa Fry Brown, director of Emory University’s Black Church Studies program tells Grossman, “Wright touches on the yearning people have to be free, to be the full person they were meant to be outside of personal and societal bondage. But we can't have social change without pain, and we can't leave people wounded and bleeding on all sides. That's why Wright is calling for reconciliation, forgiveness and healing.”
Right-thinking Americans didn’t hear him calling for any of those things. We heard him damn America (AKA “U.S. of K.K.K. A.”); falsely claim our government infected blacks with HIV; accuse America of being “the Number One killer in the world”; and callously dismiss the deaths of 3,000 innocent workaday folks on September 11 as “the chickens coming home to roost.”
No confusion there.
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