InkogNegro 1.5

There will be no links…no explanation beyond simply this.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an esteemed speaker and has been in demand for almost 30 years.  The schedule he kept this past weekend is no different than the schedule he has kept in the past.

The only difference is that the press wants to make this all about the campaign.  Because that is all they know and care about.

This may SHOCK and surprise you but Jeremiah Wright has a SIGNIFICANT fan base.  He has been doing his numbers for YEARS.

If you only know Jeremiah Wright as Barack Obama’s soon-to-be-former Pastor…then your vantage point is not unlike that of a child who visits the ocean for a day and decides that he knows all about the inner workings of the lives of dolphins.

The dolphins do not jump out of the ocean solely for your entertainment.  They would do it if you weren’t here.

And If you ever stop looking…they continue to jump.

And in the case of Jeremiah Wright…I will be watching.

Back when Glenn Loury was a conservative…I disagreed with him, but I engaged him.

But THIS?  This kinda logic…or lack thereof is kinda insulting.

I am supposed to be going to work right now.  I am NOT moving from this office until I hear it.

All of it.

I won’t be able to address it until I get home from work, but I won’t leave this house until I get to hear it in its entirety.

Barack Obama wanted to avoid this.

Desperately.  But there was NO.EFFIN.WAY. He was going to get around this.

It is almost like white America is daring him to brandish his ghetto pass in front of the whole world.

I try to be an easy going pragmatic brother, but dammit if I am not going to have to start the revolution all by myself.

If you have a white friend, kindly explain to them that white is not the default setting.

*pauses*

I am left handed, and I live in a right handed world.  I accept that things are going to be uncomfortable (screwing things in, writing on a chalk board or using magic markers). Ultimately, I adjust to it.

I am a Black man, and I live in a nation in which many white folk operate as though white (White, Protestant, Heterosexual, English-speaking and Patriarchal, for those keeping full track) is the default setting and  everyone else must adjust.

Nope.

Not gonna be able to swallow that.

Geraldine Ferraro, (and the Clinton Campaign by extension)  is clinging to the default setting, a setting she admits was waved temporarily in order to provide a certain noteworthy stature to a futile campaign being waged against a popular incumbent.

The MSM has allowed perpetrated a deeply flawed meme regarding 35 years of Clinton experience versus the a speech given by Barack Obama in 2002.

AYFKM?

There should be a laugh track everytime she says 35 years of experience.

On its face, Senator Clinton has a unique resume that represents an intelligent and accomplished professional woman with one foot in corporate law and one foot in public policy.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS?

Meanwhile people sniff at Obama’s career as a community activist and Illinois State Senator.

Just awful.

But THIS, boys and girls, is what Black folk deal with.  THIS is why we are so “hostile” and “sensitive”.

See, now I am too irritated to even finish.