http://dymaxionq.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/reframing-african-slave-insolence-jeremiah-wright-us-presidential-politics-and-the-legacy-of-race-in-america/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:58:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://dymaxionq.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/reframing-african-slave-insolence-jeremiah-wright-us-presidential-politics-and-the-legacy-of-race-in-america/#comment-321 Chris Rushlau Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:40:14 +0000 http://dymaxionq.wordpress.com/?p=44#comment-321 I think Mr. Wright was too deferential to the moderator. He could have told her that what his parishoners do in the pews, whether they listend to sermons with their eyes closed, etc., is a pastoral matter under the veil of confidentiality. On the heart of the controversy, about Israel, he was too deferential. Approving the existence of Israel as a Jewish-supremacist state (on stolen land, no less) is like, it seems to me now, approving some US people going to Africa and setting up a Jim Crow state--a Liberia where whites own and rule blacks. The comments about slaves not criticizing their slavery in the owners' presence applies to Israel. We may not discuss its racism, lest we offend--someone. This raises the issue of denial. Can you say someone is in denial if they actively suppress discussion of the thing they're supposedly in denial about? If not denial, how do we stoop so low in coutenancing such evil in our conduct that we not only do it but forbid others to mention that we do it? The attempt to cover it up bespeaks a guilty conscience. I think Mr. Wright was too deferential to the moderator. He could have told her that what his parishoners do in the pews, whether they listend to sermons with their eyes closed, etc., is a pastoral matter under the veil of confidentiality.
On the heart of the controversy, about Israel, he was too deferential. Approving the existence of Israel as a Jewish-supremacist state (on stolen land, no less) is like, it seems to me now, approving some US people going to Africa and setting up a Jim Crow state–a Liberia where whites own and rule blacks.
The comments about slaves not criticizing their slavery in the owners’ presence applies to Israel. We may not discuss its racism, lest we offend–someone.
This raises the issue of denial. Can you say someone is in denial if they actively suppress discussion of the thing they’re supposedly in denial about? If not denial, how do we stoop so low in coutenancing such evil in our conduct that we not only do it but forbid others to mention that we do it? The attempt to cover it up bespeaks a guilty conscience.

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