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I’ve been making the comparison between these two things a lot lately, thinking in different ways about the similar sources of these two situations and the very different responses of both governments. I was impressed by this IHT article, spelling out the comparison with great lucidity. I’m not exactly someone who could be accused of nationalism, but I am certainly not afraid of pointing out the real, tanglible good in the U.S. wherever it pops up. I think that our ability to at least wrangle, wrestle, get beautiful and get ugly with each other over our own history–as a group–rather than have that conversation/altercation dictated from above by the government says a hell of a lot about us.

Sure, tons of people here can’t see the trees for the forest with regard to this Wright thing, but at least we’re having that conversation, no matter how lopsided. Are things going sour here in the States? Maybe, but thankfully we still ain’t China.

Some of Wright’s words, Obama said, reflect an anger and bitterness still felt within Wright’s battle-scarred generation. Such feelings should be addressed and understood, not wished away, Obama said, in an effort to heal and transcend racial divides.

Yep.

Mine goes out to you now.

The chickens have, once more, and in another place, come home to roost.

fis·sip·a·rous (fĭ-sĭp’ər-əs)

adj.

1. Reproducing by biological fission.
2. Tending to break up into parts or break away from a main body; factious.
3. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; “a breakaway faction”

fis·sip’a·rous·ly adv., fis·sip’a·rous·ness n.

“We are left then with a theory that is intended to explain much, but not necessarily all, of what James took to be religious experience in terms of shifting psychical centers of energy within a self that is understood to be inherently fissiparous” –Ann Taves “The Fragmentation of Conciousness,” in William James and a Science of Religions, pp. 63, Wayne Proudfoot, editor.