Another powerful interpretation of Wright
Here’s another really powerful interpretation of Wright’s sermon (the endlessly rebroadcast one), along with some very painful statistics about US life. I have to admit that I’m really getting a kick out of seeing these issues discussed nationally! I wish we could stay on the kind of level of maturity and grace that Sen. Obama displayed, but I haven’t much hope of that.
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Dagmar commented on 20 March 2008:wonderful his/storical speech .
and what a well thought out narrative line........ until we come to ashley.
voting for hillary would make as much sense for ahsley as voting for barac.
( lets face it .....if hillary's health plan had worked decades ago ashley would not have had to survive on mustard and relish sandwiches.)
but what i heard obama say is perhaps just that. the paralisms he constructed between black and white angry men build a needed bridge between thosev two and yet it still sidelined the underlying , fubdamental reality that sexism too causes angry women to be seen as bitchey and monstrous deviations from the norm.
therefore the time is now for all of us to understand what both barac and hillary have come to realize a long time ago; that "we can do together all the things we can't do alone" and that we risk sinking the boat on high sea if we choose to fight each other to some clear victory for one or the other. this kind of victory at all cost that we have come to deplore in iraque has to become equally deplorable at home.
therefore i believe that the real winner wil "simply" l be the one who is willing to let go first. only when together we and they can honestly agree that to serve us and each other as first mate would be enough for now , only then will we have arrived at the place "where we ought to be." that man or woman in releasing their own individual ambition may empower our common dream and without becoming president may do more still to change our lives and so then deserve the gratitude of this nation and the world beyond?