Wright Brained
settle back—it’s a Turtle Wax Moment
Aperitif:
Barasck [NMN] O’BuhBye: The fact that he is my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue.
...And I think that, you know, people need to take a look at the whole church and the whole man in making these assessments.
Steak:
Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style. ... They have a different way of learning.
[transcribed from video]Different is not deficient. Sometimes our haters cain’t get their heads around that.
I come from a religious tradition that does not divorce the world we live in from the world we are headin’ to.
[I would love to quote more of the exact text for you but RedLasso STINKS. The above is from Part 3 and I b’lieve the first is from Part 2 which refuses to load. [and yes, my flash player is updated. tried that already. *sigh*]]
Whereupon he mocks the reserve of honkey ofay caspers WASP tradition.
Make way for the “pedagogy of the oppressed.”
My impression thus far is that Wright’s argument boils down to “Different is not necessarily Deficient”—which he promptly blows out of the water as he makes fun of white folks. Therefore, you can say nothing about what I’ve preached because it is in my **different** religious tradition.
Religious tradition, as well as linguistics, musicology and a host of other -ologies he references, are different based on biology. oops. Only thing is.... I think I recall that a black brain and a white brain are indistinguishable once removed from the brain pan. These things are cultural.
And this is the culture in which Osbama chose to steep himself.
More as it becomes available.
[and If, upon further investigation, I learn my guesses were wrong, I’ll post that, too.]
UPDATE:
Found it:
In the past we were taught to see others who are different as being deficient. We established arbitrary norms and then determined that anybody not like us was abnormal. But a change is coming because we no longer see others who are not like us as being deficient, but as being different.
Over the past 50 years, the scholarship of dozens… we have come to see just how skewed, prejudiced and dangerous our mis-education has been. ...
...demonstrated 40 years ago determined that different does not mean deficient. ... In comparing African-American children and European children we were comparing apples and rocks. And in so doing, we kept coming up with meaningless labels [educable/trainable mentally handicapped]... and even more meaningless solutions. [reading, writing and ritalin]
[In comparing pedagogical methodologies of African-American [AA] children to African children and European-American [EA] children to European children]
The two different worlds have two different ways of learning. European and EA children have a left-brain, cognitive object-oriented learning style. And the entire educational system in the US ... was based on left-brain, cognitive object-oriented learning style.
Lemme help you wit’ dem 50¢ words: Left brain is logical and analytical. [*points to left side of head*] From the solitude of the cradle with objects being hung over his or her head to help them determine colors and shapes to the solitude in a carrel of a PhD program stuck off somewhere in a corner in absolute quietness to absorb from The Object. From a block to a book—an Object. That is one way of learning. But it is only one way of learning.
African and AA children have a different way of learning. They are right-brained, subject oriented in their learning styles. Right brained [*points*] that means means creative and intuitive. Subject oriented means they learn not from an object from a subject. They learn from a person.
But since he is speaking from an “aural, oral” culture and tradition, perhaps you ought to hear it for yourself. Much more is communicated in the non-verbal, dare I say ‘non-Object’, content than can be gathered from the above.
OR
*clicky*clicky*
Side Note: when I wanted to bullshit my way thru skool or snow my way through a debate, one of my favorite tools was to go on and on about differing methodologies. It often worked, too…
Or as the aural, oral tradition might put it, “Don’t try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs, Sonny.”
“In the past we were taught to see others who are different as being deficient.”
Whaddya mean, “We”, paleface? (Oops, probably shouldn’a said that.)
I don’t remember any of that. Do you? We learned a lot about Presidents, and they were sure different than we wuz, but I don’t recollect anybody goin’ on about how deficient they were.
“Please run and tell my stuck-on-stupid friends that Arabic is a language...”
He has my sympathies for having such “SoS” friends.
“Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, ...”.
Now he’s a physiologist. I do have to say that I’ve known more than a few Caucasians who are so right-brained they can’t balance their checkbook. And whose VHS players blink 12:00 endlessly. Some of them turn out to be darn good artists. And most of them made it through school.
But I leave it to a real brain scientist, Roger Sperry (Nobel Prize, Physiology, 1981):
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What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
-Roger Sperry (1973)
---By the way, isn’t saying “these people are different” supposed to be heresy in the Vast Liberal Worldview?
Just now I’m way too left-brained to appreciate the good reverend’s words of wisdom. I just think the CNN caption should have read “What’s happening now?”.
Posted by ZZMike on 04/28/08 at 01:22 PM
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