Why Reverend Wright is so Right

I'm a big fan of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The man makes me feel proud to be an American again. He also makes me feel ashamed of succumbing to the evils of white racialism. I'm ashamed of allowing my heart to turn black and foul like a dead thing rotting in the gutter. I don't want to allow my own anger and dissatisfaction with America to turn me into a racist. I don't want to be a sad, pathetic white man who uses racial stereotypes to pump up his own vanity.

I've made some mistakes as a writer. I've been down the wrong road a few times and the last thing I want to be is a hypocrite. I'm done attacking people. I'm done tearing others down for the sake of pumping up my own pride. I'm throwing in the towel. I'll take my lumps and licks as they come, but I'm not fighting back anymore with abusive words of hatred of any kind.

Reverend Wright is saying some bad things about America. He's speaking for me, and for all the voiceless Americans whose words are never heard. He's speaking against the hypocrisies of the Bush administration and all the fat rich white assholes running the country. Rev. Wright is telling it like it is. He's using his wit and intelligence and amazing public speaking skills, his voice, to tell the truth about the big American lie.

Thank goodness for men like Reverend Jeremiah Wright. His timing is impeccable. He's taking center stage at a time when the Democrats and Republicans, the Demolicans, are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of Americans yet again. It's the same song and dance. America is run by corporations, by the wealthy fat cats of business, finance, and the media. Rev. Wright is standing up to the white moral majority and making those who insist everything is hunky dory in America look stupid.

I agree with most of what Rev. Wright is telling us. America is on the wrong road, but too goddamned proud and set in her ways to change course. America is a doomed melting pot of political and racial inequities and hypocrisies. I should know. I became a victim of my own anger and frustration by falling prey to my natural instinct of lashing out at black aggression in a "fight or flight" free-for-all that ravaged my heart on a dead-end crash course to bitterness. I was blinded by my own fear and hatred.

I was wrong. The Rev. Wright is teaching me to see things from a much clearer perspective. It's not about black versus white; it's about how average, everyday, ordinary, decent American citizens are getting hood winked by their own government. The angry, pissed off, opinioned people flooding the Internet with their views and ideas and feelings and notions and convictions and positions and sentiments are not the real enemy. Rev. Wright is not the enemy, either. He's only trying to free people with his words.

The real enemy, the high-and-mighty dream-destroying and double-dealing badass motherfucker of them all, is the corporatized American government itself. The rest of us are nothing more than powerless pawns in the great democratic game of political chess where only the smartest and shrewdest thrive. Strength comes in many forms. For the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, it comes in the form of civil disobedience, something all of us should start getting used to if America is ever going to change for the better. Open your ears, your eyes, and your minds, America. There's a new reverend is in town and he's speaking the gospel truth.