Posted on 01/20/2009 11:58:05 AM PST by drpix
After Barack Obama, "the first post-racial President", took the oath of office and gave his inaugural speech, he was followed by only two speakers - of his choosing. The first offered a pray and the second a poem. Below (in comment section) are excerpts from both and links for the videos:
"Lord...we ask you to help us work for that dayReverend Joseph Lowery's inaugural benediction
when black will not be asked to get back,
when brown can stick around,
when yellow will be mellow,
when the red man can get ahead, man and
white will embrace what is right! Amen!"
"Say it plainElizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem
that many have died for this day
sing the names of the dead who brought us here
who laid the train tracks
raised the bridges
picked the cotton and the lettuce
built, brick by brick, the glittering edifices
they would then keep clean and work inside of
praise song for struggle
praise song for the day
praise song for every hand lettered sign
the figuring it out at kitchen tables"
How's that for "post-racial?"
Lets see if the mods lock this thread like they did mine on the same subject. Little too touchy mods?
add to that Farrakhan saying not too long ago this is a new beginning for the nation of islam
lately there seems to be more of a racist attitude coming from some blacks.
If this is the case then it does not bode well for the next 4 years
“right will do what is right”??? Does he think only non-Caucasians do right? Does he think that BHO got elected without the white vote?
Good article outlining how the Republicans battled the Dems for civil rights for ALL:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/obama_and_the_lessons_of_histo.html
In this country today, everybody is something else besides an American.
To “Rev.” Lowery:
It was white people who, for the first time in the history of the world said, “We are strong enough to enslave other people, but it is wrong, and we are not going to do it any more.”
It was white people who then pressed the rest of the (non-white) world to give up slavery. It was legal in parts of the Arab world until the 20th century.
It was white people who set up a government of laws guaranteeing them freedom. But that freedom presumed and required that individuals “embrace right” by regulating their own behavior, providing for their families, obeying the laws, respecting the property of others, and being productive.
It was white people who kept that system going and productive, and created a country which has given more freedom and prosperity to its citizens — of all colors — than any other country in the world.
It was white people who passed the civil rights laws that gave Obama and other minorities advantages that they could never have gotten on their own merits.
It is tens of millions of white people who have worked hard and paid the taxes that have supported millions of non-whites. I, personally, have had enough of my income confiscated each year to support the spawn of a couple of skanks who can’t keep their knees together, and who are being raised to think I owe them even more.
Any black person who “embraces right” in this country can get ahead. “Embracing right” means work before pleasure, paying rent before buying bling, marriage before children, and all the other daily choices that constitute “embracing right.”
Damn you, you nasty old race baiter.
To Ms. Alexander:
People are performing manual labor in all parts of the world. But they are not creating the wealth and prosperity that was created in America. The reasons are: The system created by Americans that protected private property, allowed individuals to create and keep wealth, and kept government off their backs. Corporate laws that facilitate the taking of risk. Education and the work ethic. Strong, autonomous families that protect and nurture children and pass on all the foregoing values.
People of all colors all over the world envy what we have and want it for themselves. But some of them aren’t willing to make the cultural changes and pay the price. It’s easier for them to conclude that they are victims, and that we are somehow keeping them down.
You, Ma’am, are a moron.
Reminds me of the rhyme I was taught in middle school to help us conserve water.
If its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down.
I don’t know if the reverend cited this as a source for his prayer, but one might suspect plagiary if he didn’t.
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