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'...
Although Lowrey's black
He's still a racist hack
Change: The Country’s First Racist Inaugural Benediction
And if it was a comment about racism (and I believe it was), which to far too many on the left is the greatest of all sins, the reverend is stuck in the 60's. I thought the election of Obama, was proof that racism in America has been largely overcome. Unfortunately for some black Americans on the left, nothing is ever enough.
Exodus 20:7 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name."
It will be enough!
So, this is the new age of inclusiveness? Why don’t I feel included?
I don’t know where he’s been hanging around (time warp, maybe?), but for the last three years, my boss, my program manager was a man who happened to be black. I have a new boss as of 12 days ago because the man who happened to be black was promoted to company VP.
ooooo-k,
To the good Reverend …
Sir, please note; your karma is going to kick your azz up around your ears.
Thank you,
TLI
“The Other Jeremiah Wright” references one of the great hymns of Christendom in his racist benedictal prayer...ping.
Don’t have my LSB handy by the hymn title is “To All the Saints, Who From Their Labors Rest”
They have no intention of “getting over it” and declaring their grievances over.
This is pretty typical, they intend to extract vengeance, and must keep past grievances alive in order to justify the acts of vengeance.
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.”"
Bear constant repetition...
They got their President - race is no longer an issue. I didn’t vote for him, but he is the President. Just like I didn’t vote for Carter or Clinton, but they were the President. Now it’s time to be an American, and that gives me the right to free speech and to question every leftist thing The President, Madam Pelosi and Senator Reid does.
Really, what else did you expect from this crowd?
It confirms for me what I have strongly suspected for a while-that the race-hustling types and their followers aren’t about equality, they’re about being in a superior position in order to “pay whitey back”. They couldn’t do it through numbers, they haven’t done it with the “help” of AA and quotas, so now with a “black” president they see their chance. Reparations, possibly by another name, are on the horizon.
“......and when white will embrace what is right.”
Clearly racist. I want my reparations and bailout checks at the same time.
Obama will not fulfill MLK’s dream of a post-racial America.
Obama will divide us even further.”
The interesting thing is that many of us of European decent, have really moved past race mattering. We will accept and judge someone “based on the content of their character”.
But we get really tired of all those people who constantly harp on this issue and make excuses.
We just want to see people shut up, get to work, and quit whining.
In all of our lives, we all have had many obstacles to overcome, and people not like us for one reason or another.
Though using God’s name as an explitive is a violation of this commandment,
the true, hardcore, violation of this commandment is when someone speaks in the name of the Lord and spouts crap that is antithetical to His being.
Elizabeth Alexander. She thinks having a conversation with herself is “poetry”
“when brown can stick around... “
If UPS goes the way of that other delivery company, then Obama really has one parcel load to deal with
I think it would be very safe to say that, as a percentage of their group, blacks have recently exposed that they are MUCH more racist than whites.
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