There is a Difference Between Black Brains and White Brains: Obama's Pastor Explains It All »

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It would seem there is a profound difference between the black brain and other brains after all. At least according to Reverend Wright. According to this shining exemplar of Barack Obama and the deep scholarship of black liberation theology, black people are right-brained and white people are left-brained.

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BoBo in Texas
April 28, 2008, 2:45 p.m.
I wonder if Rev. Wright believes Obama to be right (Wright?) or left brained.

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  DropkickaLib
  April 28, 2008, 2:55 p.m.
  He's self-Wrighteous. Does he know the difference between right and left?
  
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    BoBo in Texas
    April 28, 2008, 5:45 p.m.
    He knows that AIDS was created by the white racist US Government to kill Black folks.
    Maybe, as Rev. Wright likes to call him, Barak Hussein Obama can name him AIDS Czar to get to the bottom of that devilish plot. No doubt Jews were heavily involved.
    
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  Radiofreeeuropa
  April 29, 2008, 3:38 a.m.
  What genius thought this was a science article?
  Pathetic meaningless racist drivel.
  
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    BoBo in Texas
    April 29, 2008, 9:49 a.m.
    You're right. That's what Obama sends his children to listen to and gave $26,000 last year to support.
    
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    djn3nunez3
    April 29, 2008, 12:01 p.m.
    "What genius thought this was a science article?"
    A creationist perhaps?
    
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      BoBo in Texas
      April 29, 2008, 2:03 p.m.
      It's Wright Wing "science".
      
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  BoBo in Texas
  April 29, 2008, 9:49 a.m.
  It's science if you're a Wright Wingnut and their leader is Barry Obama's personal mentor and spiritual adviser.
  One might want to look in the mirror before hurling insults.
  
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  quackpot
  April 29, 2008, 8:38 a.m.
  BOGUS ALERT
  BOGUS STORY
  NOWHERE in this video does Wright state that Black Brains and White Brains are different.
  Either Retract the story or state WHERE WRIGHT SAYS what you claim, BoBo. Please provide the time in the video.
  
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    BoBo in Texas
    April 29, 2008, 9:51 a.m.
    
    It's clear except to those who don't want to see. I see that the Wright Wing is well represented here on Propeller.
    
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      quackpot
      April 29, 2008, 10:21 a.m.
      Please provide the time in the video where Wright makes this statement.
      
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        aniokly
        April 29, 2008, 12:13 p.m.
        Did you listen to him? Listen again, slowly. He pretty much explains the whole theory. Is English your second language?
        
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        AlphaGnosis
        April 29, 2008, 12:44 p.m.
        lmao!
        
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        quackpot
        April 29, 2008, 1:33 p.m.
        Please tell me JUST ONE place in the video where he mentions brains.
        Until you can do that, ani - you HAVE NO CASE.
        
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        Endoscopy
        April 30, 2008, 5:57 p.m.
        For the mentally deficient it is the whole thing. Everything black is "different not deficient". Everything about blacks is different. That must make it due to the brains since he referred to Africa.
        He forgot to tell my kids though.
        
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      AtheismIsReality
      April 29, 2008, 10:24 a.m.
      I will essentially agree with the characterization of Wright's point in this portion of the speech.
      I took Wright's position with a little incredulity on this matter. There is definitely an acknowledged variance in learning styles between individuals, but I had not heard that it was so clearly divided on racial lines. I would like to see some empirical data on the matter.
      The oral tradition example confused me somewhat too. Brain development does have some genetic elements, but it also has some nurture elements. I have not heard that brain development of the type described is passed through solely by genetics. I had understood it to be like fingerprints, some genetic information with development affected by environment. So I wonder how much a predisposition towards left/objective versus right/subjective is actually determined by genetics, as opposed to environment.
      
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        quackpot
        April 29, 2008, 10:30 a.m.
        How to pronounce the work "ask" is genetic? Come now.
        Appreciation of European Symphonic Music is genetic? Come now.
        Where to place the beat in music is genetic? Come now.
        
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        AtheismIsReality
        April 29, 2008, 10:47 a.m.
        I didn't think I would have time to watch the whole 11 minute clip, so I made an assumption given the headline. However, I decided to go ahead and watch it and it turns out that the clip does not include the part where Wright discussed left-brain/objective versus right-brain/subjective.
        In that portion Wright explains that the divide is why black children cannot sit at a desk and learn like white children. The implication is clear that the difference is built in.
        I should have known that part was not in the clip given your original comment.
        
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        BoBo in Texas
        April 29, 2008, 2:06 p.m.
        Wright Wing "science" at it's finest. And Sen. Obama obviously doesn't much of a problem with it or he would''t expose his daughters to it or donate $26,000 last year to support it.
        
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        aniokly
        April 29, 2008, 12:21 p.m.
        I don't agree we have different learning factors. A few years ago Marva Collins, a black teacher that was tired of seeing the Chicago School system deliberately fail black students, she opened a private school. A primary school where she taught two languages beside English, Mathematics, History, music, and Art all on higher levels then the Chicago schools ever would. She didn't have a magic formula. She just cared about every student. Oh, it was faith based, no young gang members in her school. They excelled on every level.
        
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        Endoscopy
        April 30, 2008, 5:38 p.m.
        There have been several examples of that kind of thing. People like Wright give the blacks a reason to fail and they will grab on to it. There is known differences between male and female but none between any ethnic groups. Skin color is just 6 genes out of the very large number of other variables. This guy is Looney Tunes. As educated as he is he has NO excuse for this drivel.
        
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    KvilleTX
    April 29, 2008, 11:30 a.m.
    BOGUS QUACKPOT!
    
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      quackpot
      April 29, 2008, 11:40 a.m.
      Rather than name calling, how about simply stating where in the video Wright mentions brains.
      
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        KvilleTX
        April 29, 2008, 5:04 p.m.
        "QUACK"!
        
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  RedRiverJ
  April 30, 2008, 10:21 p.m.
  Wright is a millionaire Pastor that got to where he is by speaking this trash. He is a performer and a flim flam man, a con. By the way Pastor, it's TED Kennedy, not ED Kennedy.
  FTA: There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs. - Booker T. Washington
  
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  HOUSEMD
  April 30, 2008, 11:04 p.m.
  No brain....
  
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BoBo in Texas
April 28, 2008, 3:27 p.m.
The logical response to Wright's assertion is a "separate but equal" educational system.
Now that's what I call Old School.
Perhaps this will be part of the Change promoted by an Obama Administration.

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  dissent
  April 29, 2008, 7:37 a.m.
  this whole thread and most of its poster and their comments are old school. you people are creepy
  
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  dissent
  April 29, 2008, 7:38 a.m.
  this whole thread and most of its posters and their comments are old school. you people are creepy
  
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    dissent
    April 29, 2008, 7:50 a.m.
    see? even the edit key is spooked :|
    
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aniokly
April 28, 2008, 3:52 p.m.
The Reverend is a real piece of work. He will set civil rights back 50 years. Just when most people were forgetting about the derogatory effect he has on the Obama campaign he pops up everywhere.

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  BoBo in Texas
  April 28, 2008, 3:53 p.m.
  I think that he is a diabolical Rovian plant.
  
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    HannibalBarca
    April 28, 2008, 3:59 p.m.
    No, not sure but wright does not eat his young, so you will have to choose a different plant
    
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      DropkickaLib
      April 28, 2008, 4:09 p.m.
      ...just his foot!
      
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    hyperbola
    April 29, 2008, 6:33 p.m.
    Well yes, this racism campaign by right-wingers has all the ear marks of a Rove campaign.
    Reverend Wright Delivers the Knockout Punch
    Reverend Jeremiah Wright appeared on PBS Bill Moyers Journal on Friday night and delivered a knockout punch to the bully-boys in the corporate media. It was an impressive performance that left the political assassins over at FOX News choking on their sausage-rolls. Wright showed that he is neither a fanatic nor an "America hater"; just an extremely well-read and principled man with an unshakable commitment to justice. Wright has also paid his dues; he's an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam when most of his critics were either hiding behind their student deferments or languishing in the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas National Guard....
    
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      hyperbola
      April 29, 2008, 6:33 p.m.
      No one disputes Wright's summary of US history. His comments have simply been taken out of context to beat up on Barak Obama; everyone knows that. Just like everyone knows that the media has been retooled to destroy political enemies, which means anyone who poses a challenge to America's unelected corporate oligarchy. That's why it is so frustrating to hear people say, "The media is not doing its job."
      
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        hyperbola
        April 29, 2008, 6:34 p.m.
        That's just plain wrong; the media IS doing its job. It's cheerleading the country to war, it is diverting attention from the main political and economic issues of the day, and it is destroying its political enemies. That's what it's paid to do. Its foolish to think the media should perform differently because of the PR nonsense about a "free press". The media gets its marching orders from its corporate managers; that's who issues the paychecks on Fridays. It's their agenda that counts, not ours. The political assassination of Barak Obama just happens to be on the top of their list this week. That's why the media is zeroing in on Rev. Wright; he is the sacrificial lamb.
        
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        hyperbola
        April 29, 2008, 6:36 p.m.
        What the media is trying to do by singling out Wright is to make it look like blacks are outside of the mainstream and hostile to white American society. It's all pretty straightforward. They're trying to create the impression that blacks conceal a deep sense of grievance which expresses itself in rage. This generates feelings of fear among whites which, of course, is all part of the strategy. The message is simple; "blacks are angry, blacks are dangerous" and, oh by the way, Obama is black.
        Is it fair to say that that is essentially a racist message?
        
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        hyperbola
        April 29, 2008, 6:38 p.m.
        What's so clever about the attack on Wright is that it was set up in a way to make it look like the Reverendâ;;a man whose entire career has been devoted to social justiceâ;;is a racist. That took a bit of maneuvering. In fact, the media, and their friends at the right-wing think tanks, had to dig through 15 years of Wright's sermons to find just the right snippets they needed to destroy Obama. Now that's determination!..
        .. Wright has also been skewered in the media for suggesting there may be a connection between American foreign policy and the attacks of 9-11. The media considers any analysis that doesn't square with Bush's crackpot "they hate our freedoms" theory to be either anti-American or outright heresy. In his most famous sermon, Wright elaborates on the "blowback" theme as well as the so-called war on terror:...
        
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        hyperbola
        April 29, 2008, 6:39 p.m.
        America has blood on its hands. America, as Martin Luther King said, "is the greatest perpetrator of violence in the world today." So what else is new?
        
        What's new, is the media is using every soapbox in the country to preach uber-nationalism and vilify America's critics as unpatriotic. Their "Love it or leave it" gibberish is being used to tar a presidential candidate who hasn't sufficiently prostrated himself before his corporate overlords to make them feel that he can be trusted to carry out their directives. That is what's really happening. Obama is just unpredictable enough to make the parasite class nervous that he might do something crazy, like serve the public interest. That would be a real disaster. It'd be better to install the appalling Ms. Clinton than take a chance on the "populist" Obama. That's why the wrath of the media has descended on Obama like a Texas hailstorm; they're afraid he doesn't understand who really runs America.
        
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        hyperbola
        April 29, 2008, 6:39 p.m.
        Wright means nothing to the media or to the men behind the curtain. If he didn't provide an avenue for denigrating Obama, he'd be treated with the same indifference as the thousands of other blacks who were herded at gunpoint into the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. It's Obama's scalp they want; that's the real prize. This is a turf war; the big-wigs are defending their fiefdom from interlopers. They're even rolling out the heavy artillery expecting a full-blown conflagration. The election season is shaping up to be a real donnybrook. Better buckle up. Obama has entered the crosshairs of America's criminal oligarchy and things are bound to get nasty.
        http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articl...
        
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        Endoscopy
        April 30, 2008, 5:59 p.m.
        did you say something?
        
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        Mutainia
        May 9, 2008, 2:23 a.m.
        Does anyone, besides Muslims, actually READ this al-taqqiya?
        
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