Prometheus 6

Peggy Noonan writes on the impact Jeremiah Wright feeding frenzy has had on her.

I feel she could use a considerable bit of education on history that includes Black folks. But at least she reasoned with the assumption that we're all the same kind of animals.

Pluses and minuses...but a net plus. 

This week I talked to a young man, an Irish-American to whom I said, "Am I wrong not to feel anger about Wright?" He more or less saw it as I do, but for a different reason, or from different experience.

He said he figures Mr. Wright's followers delight in him the same way he delights in the Wolfe Tones, the Irish folk group named for the 18th-century leader condemned to death by the British occupying forces, as they say on their Web site. They sing songs about the Brits and how they subjugated the Irish and we'll rise up and trounce the bastards.