The Reverend is a linguistic scholar (M.A.) and used that as a central theme in his speech to the NAACP dinner tonight in Detroit. Beautifully presented how we all need to learn, study and understand more of how different does not mean deficient. Blended left brain learning vs Right brain in his speech itself. He demonstrated thought constructs as well as musical thinking patterns. Showed us how we think differently. Invited us to look again at our differences and understand that different is not deficient. Tied that theme in with the NAACP dinner theme that A Change is Going to Come. He presented powerful examples of discriminatory, limiting educational labeling that resulted from left brain dominant people evaluating all others per their own Euro-centric paradigm. He showed that those so labeled actually had vast stores of their own knowledge, and ample brain power, just manifest in different ways.
His speech had lots of humor. But the talking heads are approaching it as a political instrument rather than a national sermon. That is awfully sad. To me it was more like a sermon on the topic of national values in a multicultural nation. Anyone who isn't an American Indian in the room right now is an immigrant.
I can understand Obama's attraction to the Reverend Wright's sermons. I also love excellent oratory and listen to all kinds of speakers I don't completely agree with. Even though I'm not a Christian or theist, I enjoyed the speech immensely.
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