Ok, Ok, So Jeremiah Wright IS a Bigot

So, Your Name, you think the opinion that Wright is a jerk has to do with him being black?

Bzzzzt. Wrong. I think the opinion that Wright is a jerk has to do with his preaching BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY - not him being black.

BLT is dangerous and spooky to white folks, who can't imagine that anyone could see them as the beneficiaries of genocidal expansionism, oppressive colonialism, and an infrastructure built by slaves and indentured servants.

White folks have this idea that just because the last 30 years or so have been better than the last 400 that everyone is just supposed to forget about the last 400.

That's just silly, frankly.

The most powerful people on the planet today are straight white Christian men, but to listen to them, one gets the impression that they believe themselves to be the most persecuted segment of the population.

There is this general feeling amongst straight white Christian men that since the law has effectively forced them to stop beating, raping, and genociding their way into dominance, that they are suddenly due some special status that excuses them from the karmic debt that is their due.

For a community that rails so heavily against individual freedoms of the formerly oppressed in favor of their personal flavor of traditional morality, they certainly seem to champion their *own* individual freedom *from* traditional morality.

Traditional morality states punishments for the sins of the father shall be visited upon the perpetrator even unto the seventh generation. Why do straight white christian men balk so much at being shunned out of polite society? Why is it that they whine when denied tenure? Why is it that they complain so much about having jobs for which they deem themselves uniquely personally qualified given to those of a different color or gender than themselves?

Why is it that they demand a meritocracy *now* when they would have strung up a smart black gay woman from a tree for daring to demand equality just a century ago?

What makes them so special in their own minds?

Cry your tears in the silence of your closets, and beg your god to forgive you for the hateful oppression your forefathers meted out to everyone different than you - for the colored, the gay, the female, the non-Christian - they don't owe you the time of day, let alone the forgiveness you demand so boldly.

Consider it a matter of the benign mercy of those who were destroyed that you are not chased out of the land at swordpoint. Consider it an act of the sweetest love that you are not lynched on sight or tied to a stake and burned as an example to your brethren to not step out of line.

It is not up to you, straight white christian men, to determine for the historically oppressed when it's appropriate for them to "just get over it and move on." They are not on your timetable.

Now - let's see who has the brain power to look past the "oh so shocking fact that someone called Obama's handlers Jews" and look at *why* that's such an offense to White sensibilities.

Do you?