Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Different does not mean deficient, it simply means different!

This is a very special appreciation post for my Creole Colonel Sanders, the realest person in America (on TV anyway) right now, DAT DUDE, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.

JUST REMEMBER:
THEY DIDN'T LIKE KING IN 1967!
THEY DIDN'T LIKE MALCOLM IN 1968!
THEY DIDN'T LIKE FANNIE LOU IN '72!
THEY DIDN'T LIKE NELSON IN '88!
THEY DIDN'T LIKE JESUS, NO MATTER THE DATE!
THE WORLD STILL TAKES HIM OUT OF CONTEXT!
-Rev. Wendell Anthony

He has hate speech, listen to how bombastic he is.


Linguists knew that nobody in here speaks English but only black children 50 years ago were singled out as speaking bad English.


The nation's oldest civil rights organization has changed America's history. "Despite violence, intimidation, and hostile government policies, the NAACP and its grassroots membership have persevered." Now, somebody, please tell the Oakland County Executive that that sentence starting with the words, "Despite violence, intimidation, and hostile government policies" is a direct quotation from the NAACP's Profile in Courage. It didn't come from Jeremiah Wright. Otherwise, he will attribute the quote to me and continue to say that I am one of the most divisive people he has ever heard speak when he's never heard me speak! And just to help him out - I am not one of the most divisive, tell him the word is descriptive. I describe the conditions in this country. Conditions divide, not my descriptions. Somebody say, "Amen!" If you can't say, "Amen," you're too mad, just say, "Ouch!"


Many of us are committed to changing how see others who are different (number 1) and many of us are committed to changing how we see ourselves (number 2). Not inferior to, or superior to, just different from other. Embracing our own histories, embracing our own cultures, embracing our own languages, as we embrace others who are also made in the image of God.


HATERZ EVERYWHERE HE GO!


Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton
I have this very image on a shirt. RevDoctaWright shirts anyone?

4 comments:

Lawyer Consolidation Insurance said...

Reverend Wright Advocates Separate but Equal at NAACP Dinner to Thunderous Applause – “Different is NOT Deficient”

http://lawconinsurance.blogspot.com/2008/04/reverend-wright-advocates-separate-but.html

“A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races-a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color-has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races” the Plessy v. Ferguson majority opinion enshired in law that different is not deffient.

Jasmine said...

@lawyer consolidation insurance

If you wish to interpret his words and his speech that way, that is your right.

It is, however, apparent to me that he was discussing general biological and often time sociological differences between races. He is saying what is different from the white majority is often considered deficient by the white majority (i.e.: "ebonics").

Reverend Wright is not advocating the policies of Plessy v. Ferguson. He is not suggesting that the races be separated. He is saying that yes, we are different but we should all embrace the differences in others.

Another point, the MAIN problem with "separate but equal" was not the separation but the LACK of equality.

[flahy] [blak] [chik] said...

girl they come out of the woodwork...(at the above comment)

Al Bundy said...

nice work jasmine