Posted on 01/20/2009 11:31:54 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Benediction at Obama's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: 'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in the back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...
What the???
Wasn't a black man just elected president?
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, who seems to be a race-hustler, was chosen by Obama himself to give his benediction.
Does he sound like another Rev. Wright?
how about asking half-black for their birth certificate
I wonder where, oh where, I may write the Rev. Lowery.
Does he sound like another Rev. Wright?
Didn’t Obama chose him, too?
Does he sound like another Rev. Wright?
Didn’t Obama choose him, too?
Never have I heard a more accusatory, partisan, bitter Inauguration than I witnessed today.
I wasn’t gonna watch, but now am glad I did.
To those of us who know Barack and his background...we understand these words and are not surprised by the racist tone.
“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 person of any color 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.
Sounds like “The Man” is keeping us down now.
This will not heal decades old divisions. It’s ripping the scabs off of old wounds.
Well, all kidding aside, I'm sure even pres. Obama had to cringe at that. It seems that there are still people out who want to keep living in the past. I thought he was supposed to deliver a prayer not give a sermon on race relations. Truly inappropriate.
Am I the only white guy more offended that this stinking hippy called GOD “man” ?.....
Yep, there will be change after America is subjected to that kind of racist drivel for the next four years.
Like I said in another thread of mine:
Obama will not fulfill MLK’s dream of a post-racial America.
Obama will divide us even further.
Benedictions/sermons of this genre are more about sound than content. All it’s supposed to do is rhyme, and it did that. Whatever. Frankly, it was a whole lot better than that lame poem Elizabeth Alexander recited. That was truly awful and the timing couldn’t have been worse. Obama had just gotten done with his big pep talk, and had the crowd all revved up about how we’re all going to work together going to make America greater than ever . . . and then the immediate future turned out to be that ultra-lame, embarrassingly bad poem.
The race hustle continues...
I already embrace what is right. As in conservative. As in correct. As in right wing....
I don’t embrace what is “Wright”.
White people just voted an empty suit president because a sorta black guy was wearing it.
Yeah, I’m hoping they “will embrace what is right” next time.
Please tell me you are kidding. He really didn’t say this in public, did he?
“Rev. Joseph Lowery: ‘Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in the back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen’...”
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