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Sivilization and Its Discontents
I am reminded of Mark Twain's referral to society in Hannibal, MO as sivilization, not civilization, to underscore its hipocrisy and utter silliness and mean-spiritness. Yes, Reverend Wright was more than intemperate, but gimme a break, a lot of what he said has more than a grain of truth in it: racism in the form of slavery was crucial to the success of this country; we have supported what certainly resembles state terrorism against Palestinians; for years and years we supported the Apartheid government in South Africa. And lord knows our government thinks it is "holier than thou." I am absolutely amazed that the likes of John McCain and Rush Limbaugh can with seemingly straight faces attack Wright. As has been pointed out a number of times, the views of Hagee and his ilk are a whole lot more extreme. And scary. And violent in their speech. And intolerant, to put it mildly.And what have they done for the people? Those people are whom John McCain accepts as Official Endorsers.
You know, at the end of his career, Wright, yes may be intemperate, but he is also justifiably angry as he looks around at the schools in poor neighborhoods, at the lack of jobs for people in inner cities, at the number of black men in prisons. At the lackof affordable health care. And at the failure of our current government to even glance at the suffering. After all, as George W. pointed out, they can use emergency rooms.
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