Comments on: Reverend Wright Revolts Once Again

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:29:13 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this: someone to fearlessly and thoroughly debunk this pompous jackass. Ilana, thank you! Classically and wittily written.

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:03:09 +0000

I can’t watch sermons like that, so thank you for suffering through that on our behalf, Ilana.

Surprise, surprise. It comes down to an exposition on, “It’s a black thang, you wouldn’t understand”.

By: Gumdrops

Gumdrops — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:49:53 +0000

Wright is off the mark when using “pop pedagogy—to explain black dereliction and drop-out rates”. The type of music one enjoys and the dialect of English one speaks does not explain these problems. Good parenting and proper priorities does more to explain it.

I didn’t find his delivery and gesticulations to be condescending or mocking. This expressive style is common in Black churches.

By: Dan L

Dan L — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:56:01 +0000

We’ll see whether anyone in the Rock Hall of Fame stands the test of time compared with Beethoven, Bach, etc., (though I’m not fond of Mahler). My hunch is they won’t.

By: Alexander Sazonov

Alexander Sazonov — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:53:50 +0000

By the way I forgot to mention, the NAACP really stands for the “National Association for the Annihilation of Caucasian People”.

By: Alexander Sazonov

Alexander Sazonov — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:34:57 +0000

It is absolutely unbelievable that an anti-white and anti-Semite like Barack Hussein Obama is taken seriously as a candidate for the presidency.
I mean, this is a guy who attended Louis Farrakhan’s notorious “Million Man March” in October 1995, where mobs of fanatical blacks literally were calling for the physical extermination of all whites and Jews. He is also close to Jessie Jackson, who once said that he used to spit in white people’s food and called Zionism a “poisonous weed”.

Can you imagine the reaction from the media if a white guy, who attended mass rallies of the Ku Klux Klan and refused to unequivocally condemn what the Klan stands for, then decided to run for president?

Yet, since we are dealing with the “Klan with a tan”, everything is permissible.
And of course, it should come as no surprise that Obama, just like Jackson, Sharpton, and David Duke is supported by almost all American blacks.
And they have the nerve to call white people racist? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

As far as black “music” is concerned, the fact that most white and Asian kids are listening to this garbage and adopting the so called “hip-hop culture” makes my stomach turn.
Ahh, what a situation! The Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves.

By: Andrew T.

Andrew T. — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:31:36 +0000

All very true. I tuned in for a couple of minutes, though, and one way Wright sort of managed to impress me was in his knowledge of linguistics.

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:21:14 +0000

There certainly are objective standards for judging culture. For instance, cultures that condone honor killings are inferior to those that condemn them because of an objective, culturally independent moral standard that condemns such things.

When it comes to art, (or your specific musical example) is there a similar standard that could be applied to compare BB King and Bach? Perhaps the chord structure, timing, et cetera? I don’t have the musical chops to compare them myself.