[Dialogue] Obama/Wright - demythologize and frame of reference

[W. J.]

Do you s'poze he will be the first of many Wright Brothers?
  M.

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  I love the “Wright from wrong”. Obama acknowledged that he understood where Wright was coming from even though he was wrong. The nature of the Wright show has forced Obama to be beyond explaining and politically (which is not a bad term) merely denounce him and admonish him for speaking as though he knew Obama’s mind. In the political realm it is difficult to conduct a public RS1 with such varied frames of reference. Obama was right to acknowledge that he was not a theologian because he is not running for national chaplain. We now will have a new Wright wing of the party.
   
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    From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of W. J.
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    Problem is, until now Obama couldn't tell Wright from Wrong. And that's very telling.

    Marshall

Adelbert Batica <abatica at hotmail.com> wrote:

    Tell them how to "de-mythologize", Rev. Jones.  "I'm just shocked, shocked to know that gambling is going on here!!!!"  ("But...thank you!")

Il Padre Padrone


    
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  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:42:37 -0700
From: synergi at yahoo.com
To: oe at wedgeblade.net; dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Subject: [Dialogue] Obama/Wright
    I managed to stay out of the last dust-up around the Rev. Wright's sound/video bytes.

     

    But after viewing the Moyers interview, YouTube, and the coverage of his Press Club appearance, I'm more surprised at his political ineptness and defensive posturing than I am by his oratocial style, and unlike most of Americans, I'm not at all offended by his theological stance, which is pretty solidly within the black/prophetic tradition of critiquing the dominant culture from the experience/posture of the oppressed (as I think Moyers pointed out).

     

    To put it bluntly, some black preachers don't know when to shut up. This guy's had more than his fifteen minutes of fame, and he's lapping it up. From all I know of Martin Luther King, Jr., he's no King.

     

    Barack, on the other hand, is hard pressed to deny Rev. Wright's influence, and to appear "shocked, shocked, to find out" this late in the game that his spiritual mentor has a little PR problem. Nobody believes that Barack hasn't embraced this strand of black theology in his search for a black identity. If I'm so comfortable with it, why isn't he? Or at least able to decode/explain what it means theologically?

     

    Stay tuned for the spin on election results next Tuesday.

     

    Marshall Jones

     

   
    
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