Wright has thrown Obama under the bus. I can’t imagine the Obama campaign is or was in any way involved. The press is all over this and it’s a consensus it’s not good for Obama.

I really believe Obama thought that his magical race speech that gave so many thrills up so many legs would be the end. Wright’s press interviews were, to a large extent, mostly to show his more human/progressive side. That totally reeked of Axelrod and they probably thought that was enough to calm folks down. When I talk to Obama supporters the “spontaneous” reactions are almost always: you need to look at context, see the whole person.

Or they further want to divide the Democratic party on racial lines. I don’t put that past Axelrod either.

Taken individually, people can say stupid things like “it’s the black brain that makes them learn differently,” and “women’s hormones make them submissive” or whatever garbage they feel like peddling. But when you start to find out that ALL oppressed peoples react similarly, those racial, genetic, and hormonal arguments are shown up for the junk they are.

I remember hearing people trying to rationalize the traditional female Tall Poppy syndrome with female hormones and some Just-So-Story junk about how we’re competing for male attention. Then, I heard about what’s called Crab Theory in Deaf culture, and how (according to many Welsh!) the Welsh also have a tendency to pull down their high-fliers. Bright black students get called oreos.

Old 19th century junk that says that black people are more sentimental, sensual, and emotionally uncontrollable sounds straight out of modern “academic” tracts about women. Celts of all kinds were patronized in Britain for being gentle, spiritual types who were “closer to the land” and responsible for scattering the equivalent of political lace throw pillows around the British political landscape.

It’s mind-boggling how much you learn about how similarly peoples of all races and genders react when they are oppressed, how they are viewed by their oppressors, and how they view themselves. There are differences due to their individual historical contexts, but overall, they are identical. I found it almost freeing as a woman to read those ridiculous words about the inherently less mathematical and more emotional Welsh mind. It was so obviously garbage about them that it could only be garbage about women as well.

Wright is killing Obama’s campaign. It’s impossible to think he doesn’t know that reality. The only possible reason for his continued actions is that he has finally gotten the national platform he has always desired.

His ego perhaps has overpowered his common sense.

I’ve begun thinking lately that ALL members of an oppressed population can do nothing better than to study the history and politics of another oppressed population. Not only does it knock you off your World’s #1 Victim throne, but it helps you to see that many of the things you thought were unique to your people are actually shared the world over by many disenfranchised people. Rev. Wright should make a point of studying 19th century Irish history, or the history of Jews in Medieval Europe.

It’s insightful about the current political scene and a voice that should be heard. Check it out.