Reply #5: I still don't see the problem with that line [View All]

[Prophet 451]

I have never understood why Michelle Obama's comment and Rev. Wright's "God damn America" caused such a flap. Well, actually I do know why, it's because of nationalism. Americans are trained from birth to be inordinatly proud of their country not for what it has done or what it represents but for the mere fact that it exists and that is nationalism. To quote the late great Bill Hicks (a man who had much to say about the stupidity of "American pride"): "Aren't you proud of your country, son? / I dunno, I didn't have much to do with it, my parents fucked here". Here (England) and in most of the Western world, what Wright and Michelle Obama said wouldn't have raised an eyebrow.