The Wright Stuff

pettyfog · Mar 26, 2008

Snooping around the web, came across something on 'The New Republic' that should have been written up more by the MSM.

OBAMA'S PASTOR RAISED IN PRIVILEGE, NOT POVERTY

While I wouldnt exactly call it 'privilege', his family was certainly better off than most:

How do I know?

It happens that, as a Philadelphian, I attended Central High School – the same public school Jeremiah Wright attended from 1955 to 1959. He could have gone to an integrated neighborhood school, but he chose to go to Central, a virtually all-white school. Central is the second oldest public high school in the country, which attracts the most serious academic students in the city. The school then was about 80% Jewish and 95% white. The African-American students, like all the others, were there on merit. Generally speaking, we came from lower/middle class backgrounds. Many of our parents had not received a formal education and we tended to live in row houses. In short, economically, we were roughly on par.

I attended Central a few years after Rev. Wright, so I did not know him personally. But I knew of him and I know where he used to live – in a tree-lined neighborhood of large stone houses in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. This is a lovely neighborhood to this day. Moreover, Rev. Wright's father was a prominent pastor and his mother was a teacher and later vice-principal and disciplinarian of the Philadelphia High School for Girls, also a distinguished academic high school. Two of my acquaintances remember her as an intimidating and strict disciplinarian and excellent math teacher. In short, Rev. Wright had a comfortable upper-middle class upbringing. It was hardly the scene of poverty and indignity suggested by Senator Obama to explain what he calls Wright's anger and what I describe as his hatred.
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Uh..no... Wright was academically gifted, went to a prestigious HS which was 95% white, 80% jewish {wonder if he's on the reunion mailing list?}. From then, he continued to excel, though with somewhat a 'sidetrack'..
From his wiki:

Education and military service

From 1959 to 1961, Wright attended Virginia Union University,.. an historically black school in Richmond. He then joined the United States Marine Corps and served in the 2nd Marine Division with the rank of private first class. He subsequently transferred to the United States Navy and entered the Corpsman School at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1963[5]. He was trained as cardiopulmonary technician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and graduated as salutatorian in 1967[5].

Wright then enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he received a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a master’s degree in English in 1969. He also earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School. [5]Wright holds a Doctor of Ministry degree (1990) from the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, where he studied under Samuel DeWitt Proctor.
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Filling in some blanks... perhaps he was a little 'aimless' in college and his parents told him to 'get thee to the Recruiter's!'. Looks like the Navy straightened his attitude a little, like it did mine.. though perhaps a different direction.

So it just COULD be that we're seeing exactly the same middle-class guilt, redirected, as many whites of the same background.

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