Wednesday, April 30, 2008

pump the brakes on the auto-assumption



what this white priest illustrates very nicely for the public ... is that rev wright is not an american hater, a bigot, or a radical ...

i am sick with this AUTOMATIC ASSUMPTION that something is wrong with wright. it's one thing to have an opinion about wright. it's another thing for the media to speak about him as if EVERYONE has UNIVERSALLY agreed that wright is a hater, bigot, and a radical. there is no discussion at all about the content of his words as they are immediately dismissed. it's truly not that i am wright's biggest fan (i actually haven't even thought about my position on it) it's that the media is (once again) being LAZY and SIMPLEMINDED. which only influences the american public to be just as lazy.

hater, bigot, radical ... lazy, lazy, lazy ... some other dude wrote a great blog on this very topic and how if we take the time and effort to look at the content of rev wright's words ... there can be a more nuanced conclusion about rev wright. not all good ... but not ALL BAD (a.k.a. hater, bigot, radical).

sounds very HUMAN.

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