this is a few days late, but i just got around to watching rev. jeremiah wright's NAACP speech from the other day. you can watch it here (right-brained) or read it here (left-brained). it's a fantastic and entertaining speech. of course, we can nitpick every word he says and every comparison he makes by saying this line is racist and that line is angry, but what about discussing the overall point? what about discussing the lines he repeats throughout the speech: "I believe that a change is going to come because many of us are committing to changing how we see others who are different" and "I believe a change is coming. It's not deficient, it's just different."
we need to change the way we view one another AS PEOPLE (and i don't mean just in america, but all over the world). we need to be taught to see one another's differences as something to learn from and enjoy, not something that separates us. whether we like it or not, we live in a global society. and in order to survive, we need to learn how to live together. one idea, under god doesn't work. we need to identify our commonalities and let the petty differences die. we need to identify our major differences and work them out. we need to be willing to compromise. and this needs to happen, not only between governments and world leaders, but on an everyday basis, between everyday people.
