The Discerning Texan

I am going to start this post with a great quote I saw today from Booker T. Washington:

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs. - Booker T. Washington

Mr. Washington was clearly wise beyond his years. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have new competition on the block for the "keep the brothers down so I can keep getting rich" business. And to a great extent, the Democrat Party apparatchiks have also been playing this card for years to garner the minority vote.

When was it again that LBJ's"War on Poverty" started? 1964? 1965? It has been 44 years now...how's that "war" coming along? The dirty little secret that no Democrat will admit to is that the minute that "war" is won, no one will need to vote for a Socialist nanny state anymore. No poverty = no power for Dems.

Yesterday I focused on some posts that were trying to make a distinct point about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his 20-year association with Barack Obama; namely that for those opposing Obama to point out the stream of outrageous statements that Mr. Wright has been making for years has nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with calling into question the judgment of a person who is claiming to have what it takes to hold the most powerful office on the Planet. If Obama was a Newt Gingrich conservative, with his youth and communication skills, I would be out there campaigning him and raising money for him. It's not about race. It's about honesty, character, patriotism, and sanity.

But Obama isn't Gingrich. He is a dyed in the wool Marxist, quite possibly the most hard left candidate to ever have a real shot at the office. His associations with Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, and others show incredibly poor judgment, and a monumental disdain for the ideas within the Constitution of the United States--which a President must swear to "preserve, protect, and defend". I could care less what color his skin is: he is a dangerous man because he is a radical Leftist

I am sure that Obama wished he had a "do over" when it comes to his radical past and his association with known radicals, crooks, terrorists, and race-baiting hate-mongers. But he does not. So he must not have been happy with what Mr. Wright has been vomiting up in public for the last several days.

First, there was this particular speech--which almost has to be heard to be believed--where he basically states that people of African descent learn differently than, well, any other race. This sounds a lot more like something that a Nation of Islam minister would be saying than a so-called Christian. And, as a matter of fact, Wright's security is being provided by the Nation of Islam. But as a first stop on the Reverend Wright's "heal the divisions" world tour, get a load of this:



The American Digest comments, beginning with a quote from the NAACP speech the other night (ahem):

"In comparing African-American children and European-American children, we were comparing apples and rocks."

Got that? Rocks.

The Digest continues:

"Different is not deficient," is the theme of this speech by Obama mentor Wright. That and a crash course in black eugenics and phrenology that would make a fascist blush.

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 his deep "scholarship," is vast learning concerning black liberation theology, black people are right-brained, white people are left-brained. and never the twain shall meet. 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.

At any rate, being descended from griots seems to me to be a lucky win in genetic lotto if you get one of the 100 top rapper slots in the world. It will probably be a bit more problematic if you want to get a job that involves actual analytic skills.

Reverend Wright's mindset is indeed fascinating. You can see the brain in fervid action above.

Full speech @ Rev Wright NAACP Speech (Video). Four segments including singing and dancing.

But that's not the half of it; today the Reverend appeared before the National Press Club and let loose more lunacy:

• he implied that Obama agrees with him, but just has to pretend that he doesn't; he also stated that Obama "had to" disown him because he is a politician, and that the day after he gets elected, Barack understands that Wright is"coming after" him
• he once again overtly stated that America was responsible for 9/11
• he said that any attack on him is an "attack on the Black church" (i.e. was "racist")
• he did not back down from his assertion that the US Government may have created the AIDS virus to kill black people

Here is some stunning video of the event:



This election is John McCain's to lose.