Do the Wright Thing

So if you search 'Jeremiah Wright' on YouTube, you get a bunch of videos of Wright's most incendiary sermons with bizarre neurotic commentary scrolling across the screen, criticizing Wright's views. One video says Wright should not be considered an American. The video linked above, ends by leaving the viewer with this question: 'Black Liberation Theology? or just revived Black Supremacy?' Profound, huh?

Now what the fuck is 'black supremacy?' According to this poster, it's speaking critically about race relations in America.

The funny thing is: would this poster going after Jeremiah Wright really feel better if Jeremiah Wright was preaching 'liberation theology' as opposed to 'revived Black Supremacy?' Are the bigots out there who go around calling black preachers 'black supremacists' really cool with militancy as long as it only rises to the level of 'liberation theology?' Seems unlikely. At the end of the day, whoever posted this probably doesn't like black people who talk about being black.

This is not to say that I agree with everything that Wright says. The poster points out, albeit smugly, that Wright was probably wrong, for example, about saying that Jesus was a 'black man.' Jesus was probably not black. Though, also probably to this poster's dismay, Jesus was probably not white. And certainly wasn't Aryan. He probably looked like, I don't know, a middle Easter Jew.

Fine, so Wright's not perfect. But there's nothing wrong with Wright's anger. Are country does have a history steeped in racism that anyone who truly loves this country should want acknowledge and improve upon. If, on the other hand, every time someone starts to speak about white racism he is himself labelled a racist, then our racial dialogue will consist entirely of white folks talking to white folks about black folks. That doesn't hold much promise.