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Rev. Wright spoke in Detroit to the NAACP convention on Sunday night, and both CNN and FOX covered it live.  The post speech Republican spin on CNN showed me one thing….the GOP can feel their demonization of Rev. Wright slipping away the more Rev. Wright speaks out.  

As I wrote in my post about Bill Moyers’ interview on Friday night, it is abundantly clear that Jeremiah Wright is not only a great American, he’s an intellectual giant.  Whatever caricature the GOP, and Hillary Clinton, want to perpetuate about this man, the more we learn about Jeremiah Wright, the more that caricature becomes untenable.

Wright’s speech in Detroit was the polar opposite of his interview with Moyers.  With Moyers, he was studied, quiet, careful.  With the NAACP, a friendly audience more like his church than anything else, he was firey, entertaining, often hilarious, and inspiring.  

His message - that different is not the same as deficient - was targeted directly at the media’s caricature of Rev. Wright, and directly at the fear that the GOP/Hillary caricature seeks to exploit.  Rev. Wright is different, and the GOP/Hillary aim is to make that difference deficient, and scary, to white America.  Wright used examples from music, linguistics, religion, even hip hop, to show that different is just that.  Different.  Not deficient.  Or for that matter, necessarily scary.

I applaud this Rev. Wright roll out.  I think it has the potential to completely neutralize the last few months of YouTube overplay.  Now if Rev. Wright makes another stupid statement, it could get WAY worse (so my seatbelts are fastened), but I think the positive could very well outweigh the negative.  

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