About that race-based benediction: “When white will embrace what is right”
Juan Williams got emotional over Rev. Joseph Lowery’s impassioned benediction, and marveled over the former NAACP head’s personal journey from ’60s civil rights leader to Obama benediction leader.
No question, Rev. Lowery has led a remarkable life.
But the benediction’s eloquence was marred by glib racialism.
Lowery got big cheers when he weaved in a weird prayer rap expressing his hope for a future in which the “brown would stick around,” the “yellow would be mellow,” the “red man would get ahead, man,” and the “white would embrace the right.”
The “white would embrace the right?”
Who wrote that line? Jeremiah Wright? And what would Obama’s grandparents and mother have to say?
Like I said last night: Feel the post-racialism!
***
The full paragraph:
“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery said.
A reader points to this old civil rights chant that adds context to Lowery’s remarks — but makes the jab against whites all the more egregious:
Big Bill Broonzy Black, Brown And White lyrics
This little song that i’m singin’ about,
People you know it’s true
If you’re black and gotta work for a living,
This is what they will say to you,
They says, “if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, stick around,
But as you’s black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back”
I was in a place one night
They was all having fun
They was all buyin’ beer and wine,
But they would not sell me none
They said, “if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, stick around,
But if you black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back”
Me and a man was workin’ side by side
This is what it meant
They was paying him a dollar an hour,
And they was paying me fifty cent
They said, “if you was white, ‘t should be all right,
If you was brown, could stick around,
But as you black, hmm boy, get back, get back, get back”
I went to an employment office,
Got a number ‘n’ i got in line
They called everybody’s number,
But they never did call mine
They said, “if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, could stick around,
But as you black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back”
I hope when sweet victory,
With my plough and hoe
Now i want you to tell me brother,
What you gonna do about the old jim crow?
Now if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, could stick around,
But if you black, whoa brother, get back, get back, get back
***
Left-wing blogger dubs Lowery a “rock star.”
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As a Christian, who happens to be “white”, I have embraced what is right, the Lord Jesus. When are the leftists going to do the same? And besides, in Christ there is no more red, yellow, black, or white, male, female, Jew, Gentile and all the rest. Why is the left focusing on those labels? Answer: because they aren’t in Christ.
No, it isn’t. Our country is not free of racism or prejudice (and yes, people of color can be prejudiced and biased and hate-filled too, before someone here points out the mindnumbingly obvious), and people who say things like that are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid.
No, it just shows I read the comments on this site. Where — for the record — people lump together pretty much anyone who doesn’t agree with them all the time. The gays, the blacks, the Mexicans, the feminists, the educated, the liberal, etc., etc. (the list is incredibly lengthy).
It was a joke. I was poking fun at your hysteria and groundless, paranoid delusions about, say, liberals racing out to getting abortions retroactively or aiding Mexicans in crossing the border. How classically humorous of you not to get it.
What an impressive display of rhyming abilities. Frickin’ genius, that guy.
So blacks shouldn’t have to give back, but everyone else must? Don’t tell me what to do.
Since we’ve had Dat Nguyen (born in a refugee camp to Vietnamese parents) and Haruki Nakamura (American born of a Japanese immigrant father and a Japanese-American mother) make it in the NFL, I think we can safely say that Asians are fully integrated into the American mainstream.
Last major ethnic group that was left out. And football is America.
Huh?
NYK, only confident people remain unaffected by what others may say or think. It says more about you, and not necessarily complimentary, that the collective thoughts and comments of those here offend your schema of political ideologies and social truths.
Your side now has the WH and Congress, so forgive us if we find solace in coming here to commiserate and occasionally pat one another on the back.
And you DON’T? You JUST did!
So, is partial-birth abortion a joke?
How classically unfunny of you to think those who disagree with you are humorless.
CHANGE has come to America.
Wow. In one fell swoop. A narcisstic sychophant as Commander-in-Chief. Sounds like Carter and Clinton to me.
Pompous Mama’s boy.
Good gried.
Bear1909out
nail49, I’m sorry, but what???
vickisoup: I was responding to nyk’s post #102.
Does that help?
Oh, the irony. The collective lot of you spend all your time here discussing those that offend you (i.e., those who don’t agree with you). It’s hypocritical for the poster I was addressing to complain of my lumping “all of [you] together based on our beliefs” — when the raison d’etre of this board (and it is used as such by those who comment here) is to provide a forum in which you can grouse endlessly about those who “offend your schema of political ideologies and social truths.” (Which means your own little comment, above, is hypocritical as well.)
Awww…I know. It’s nice to have your own safe space. That’s how I and everyone I know (and almost nearly the entire major metropolitan city I live in) felt for the last eight years.
It’s a sliver of a solace in a place that is becoming less and less hospitable to your ideals each day. I’ll leave you to enjoy it.
What I take from the “reverend’s” comments is that the poor black people just have it so hard here in 2009 that we should feel sorry for them. That’s just a sad pathetic way of looking at it.
And what exactly have the black been asked to give back? Those jobs they get even when they are not the most qualified? Tell me what “black” has given back? They demand a lot but they are not giving back anything but bitterness.
Free of racism? Classic liberal construct. Your very use of it betrays your mindnumbing stupidity about what racism is and how it works.
Bear1909out
I can rhyme, too.
I dream of the day
When being white is okay,
When being black
Doesn’t give you the right to attack,
When the color of your skin
Has nothing to do with what’s within,
When the men in power
Don’t make the rest of us cower
Or react in utter rage
‘Cause each considers himself a sage.
Try to make me think I don’t belong
That everything I do is wrong,
But I’ll continue to dream
That we’re truly in this together—a team.
There, that didn’t take long. I know I could have done much better, but I just wanted to make the point that he could have, too.
I’m more than one race, so where do I fit in?
So much for Dr. Kings dream.
This is absolutely NOT what Lowery said. Replace “black will not be asked to give back” with “black will not be asked to GET back.”
But I’m pretty sure Michelle knows this and is simply keeping the incorrect quote posted in order to further rile up her followers and subsequently generate more traffic.
Every honest, non-racist white person should be HORRIFIED that such a remark is even thought ‘acceptable’ let alone spoken at a federal ceremony.
I’m no racist and I’ve been a good Christian but ‘these people’ are really starting to tick me off!
Content of one’s character: was this what got BHo elected?
Calling Dr. King.
Bear1909
What part of this isn’t racist?
Kk, thanks.
Everything about Obama and everyone around Obama deeply offends me.
Why has this country ignored the obvious and elected this fraud?
Sorry, I quoted off the wrong comment. Sorry, danceswithhounds. I meant to quote tettes.
Mass hysteria?
Kool-Aid?
Campaign finance fraud?
Media bias?
Willfull ignorance?
All of the above?
Was the only part I wasn’t offended by,
so…
… not applicable.
Agree with Danceswithdachshunds about really starting to get ticked off.
Could be. But it doesn’t change the underlying in-your face race baiting of the passage. I don’t know of black people being asked to “get back” but the implication is they are being forced to the back of the bus, back of the line or just back of society. Everytime I watch or read the news I see prominent black politicians, athletes and celebrities performing, speaking, acting, advocating etc… in public and getting plenty of exposure just like everybody else. Just who do you think is asking (or forcing) black people to “get back”? If there is anybody they certainly haven’t been able to implement their nefarious plans.
About half the electorate voted for BHo. Nearly 50 million(?) didnt vote for this site gag of a human being.
Off the teleprompter he is a farce. His inauguration speech was BORING.
Couldnt quite bring himself to say ISLAMIC terrrorists…instead it was about a “network of terror and violence”.
Chicken sh*t.
Oh, but he had the nerve to say that “we” can’t use the majority share of the earth’s resources without consequence.
Huh? You mean the goatherders need coal and natural gas as much as we do? WTF?!?!??!?!
And what about your limo, d-Bag?
Bear1909
PS: These people dont tick me off as much as they inspire me to get even. ROFLMAO
Front page of cnn, A military member saluting obama and of course obama did not salute her back. Welcome back to the clinton days in that way.
I tune out all this whining and race baiting. I could care less about what clowns say. If you are able to, and you pull your own weight, I respect you…dont care what color you are. If you live off the public dime when you dont have to…you’re a worthless parasite. I dont care what color you are. Seems like the Dem party is the party of parasites, whatever color they are. That’s the only “truth” to me.
Frankly, I don’t understand why anyone is surprised by this. Regardless of the wording, I believe it was “get back”, race is till something that blacks will use at every turn.
Lowery has been a race baiter here in Atlanta many years.
Man, wow. I’ll bet the Rev. Lowery worked on those lines, for several minutes, just to get them to sound right.
“Gettin’ ahead man…
BHo’s narcissistic achilles heel will be very evident with the military elites with whom he is going to be sitting in the sitch room.
He doesnt have the whiskers and he takes himself so seriously that he will not only get his lunch eaten- they will pull his pants up over his head and spin him out into the hallway.
BHo is like a thin-skinned substitute teacher in a high school that is tough and unruly. He walks in like he has a plan and by lunch time he is run out. He hasnt even been able to be in Washington DC long enough to be a senator who can dogfight with his peers. And now he is President.
See ya.
Bear1909
Not a problem with me, as Obama never served in the military and as President is a civilian. Reagan and the Bushes returned salutes, because they had been service members. They had no need to but did as one service person to another.
Obama not returning a salute is not a sign of disrespect.
OT- Don’t know about the other services, but it was in my handy “Blue Jackets Manual”.
A sailor ordered confined to the brig or other confinement is not permitted to offer the salute, because an officer will return the salute, and a confined sailor is not entitled to receive even a returned salute.
Sort of OT.
Oh, and Navy people aren’t covered in doors, except for certain ceremonial occasions, and sailors do not salute uncovered, so sailors do not usually salute indoors.
And, if one enters the enlisted or petty officers club and forgets to rmeove his cover, he has to buy a round of beer for all present.
co2 producer #114 – I think you should copyright your poem….
After listening to Lowery again, I will retract part of what I said earlier. Sounds like he probably said “get,” not “give.” I still don’t like being told that I need/have to give back. Generosity shouldn’t be mandated.
The depths of your collective denial about Bush’s unpopularity is quite a spectacle! He left office one of the most disliked presidents since such statistics went on record. Ever since Katrina — long before the debates, the primaries, the election — it was all but guaranteed our next president would be a Democrat.
The “obvious” here is that what is offensive to you is apparently not so for the majority of Americans, and vice-versa. This is really all you need to know.
Race baiting is a multi-billion dollar business and it’s reserved for blacks. This country is 70% white. Who in the hell does he think elected Obama? Has anyone ever heard one of these guys mention the opportunities that have been given to blacks in this country?
As long as guilt-ridden whitey continues to fill the coffers, guys like him, Wright, Jackson and Sharpton will earn a good living. The irony is that guys like him are the ones who perpetuate race as an issue and alienate whites, and other ethnic groups, who really want to get past it.
If Obama didn’t screen what this idiot was going to say on the national stage, then he’s just as culpable. Maybe this makes me a racist, but I hope that I live to see the day when blacks like Lowery and Wright stop whining about what happened in history and start contributing to the future.
As long as Afro-Americans believe that merely being born black is more than a happenstance of genetics but a compulsory membership card into an American quasi-subculture “color club” that only perpetuates its own stereotypes as in speech, political and mono-cultural affinities and attitudes and the need for the specious crutch of “race pride” and “leaders”, the day is long till their true mergence with mainstream America. When I see TV commercials — or worst, TV shows and even networks — that strut street-talking dreadlock wearing black people as “default” examples of Afro-Americans I cringe. No other racial group would tolerate such a massive pigeon-holing of its “members.”
James Greenidge
Queens New York
Majority of Americans? This putz didnt have a mandate from voters. Was it 6 or 7 points difference?
And who cares about popularity of a President? It is a trite and despicable measure of the serious business a President must conduct– with so many unknowns to the public involved.
When the MSM gives a Presidential candidate and his party a complete pass on one of the worst financial boondoggles in history, isnt it even a remote possibility that the drumbeat of that same MSM shapes perception of a President who was man enough to do the unpopular thing and protect the Country— something the wildly popular Bill Clinton did not do?
BHo doesnt offend me. I simply disagree vehemently with what he stands for, who he is as a person, who he is as a male (i do not think he has passed any test of manhood in his life), and what he believes in as a liberal socialist with despotic tendencies.
Not my President. He got elected.
Bear1909
ThatSamIAm #24 – you should copyright your poem too!
Guys, the GOP has been voted out of power. Period. There is very little that can be done till 2010. If we try to filibuster judges the nuclear option will be used.
Its the DNC’s show for now. And there are radicals in control of ever major congressional body and committee. There is now a radical leftist in the white house.
There will be long and painfull investigations into the bush years. There will be alot of extreme liberal agendas passed. They will blame everything on bush. All we can do is scream loud enough to try, and I mean TRY to be heard even a little bit.
We have NO effective representation in Washington DC. NONE. This will not change until at least 2010. The only way we will change this is to start now and start hammering back and hammer hard.
If you don’t like this, tough, because it is what it is. You can crawl up into a ball of misery or you can fight back. The biggest problem we had in 2008 was bush. Bush is GONE. We are not. So get up off of your butts and fight back.
Will the hyphen ever vanish?
Well I’m leaving the McCain/Palin bumper sticker on my car. If I can find one I’ll supplement it with a 01/21/2013 bumper sticker.
Humble thanks, Marie. I thought the spontaneity of it made it sound cliched, but I’m glad you liked it. It’s the nicest compliment I’ve gotten in a while.
Katrina? You are obviously an ignorant moron who blindly believes in the msm. Have you ever heard of Ray Nagin? School Bus Ray?
You are either a racist black voter, or a guilt ridden white liberal who hasn’t got a clue about what the democrap party along with the msm has done to this country. MORON!
I’m kinda particular to PKAmmoTroop’s poetry, too. See #64 for an example.
Something foul just had to be said about the people who really brought change to this country. The White man.
Thank you would have been much better. Instead, white need to be right. What a butt head!
More proof that racial hatred goes right to the top in all facets of the black culture. The black KKK is alive and well.
So, again, who are the real racists in this nation?
(havent read any of the previous comments yet… have a week long lingering cold going on here…)
I see nothing wrong with what he was saying. The man is merely exalting the white folks to stay out of the Democratic party and to restore conservatism to its pure state.
Forgets? Thats not very likely. (Especially west coast squids) I havent known a sailor who ever likes to wear his cover. Its kind of like being caught outdoors when colors are raised in the morning…
I wouldn’t keep a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on my car even if I had one.Did you see the love fest between McCain and Obama? With McCain pledging to help Obama pass legislation? Rush said they need the 60 votes and McCain will be their 60.Many of us wondered if there wasn’t some kind of deal under the table for McCain to throw the election.Cosidering the way he and his staff treating Palin like garbage after he lost and were all lovey to Obama I wonder.
CO2 Producer #144 – I have already copied your poem and sent it off to five friends. And yes, I gave you credit from Michelle’s blog.
Ditto to Farmgal #150… Never thought I would have to get a RINO detector. Bummer.
I realize that electing a President who happens to be black is noteworthy and of great historical significance. However, he is not the “usual” black that I encounter in my daily life. He speaks perfect English, has a great education, is married and living with the mother of his children, dresses in socially acceptable clothing, doesn’t wear a baseball cap tilted in the wrong direction, and looks you in the eye when he speaks.
HIs blackness is not the big thing as all the cheering crowds of blacks profess. It boils down to command of the language, education, and character. Maybe blacks will get the point rather than jump up and down gleefully simply because he is black, half black that is.
When is the real vision of Martin Luther King ever going to be lived? That we would not judge on color but on character?? What does it take?? We have just elected the first black president and these “civil rights leaders” are still stuck in the past. Its just unreal. I’m not sure they will ever want to get past “racial divides”… its too big of a business for these “civil rights” leaders that make a living by dividing us, not uniting us. God help us.
Ok, please, check this one out. It’s really funny and ironic. Which one is he more like? Pericles or Semos?
I’m damned offended, and I know, being a white male, that I’ve got a hell of a lot of nerve being so. But today’s racial slur from noted civil rights activist Reverend Lowery made me apoplectic. In his sophomoric, racist poem, wherein he wished, “. . . white people will do what is right,” the man delivered a monumental, unwarranted, and egregious insult to all Americans. In particular, I’m thinking of the 600,000 men, mostly white, who died in the great Civil War so that the good Reverend could get up at the podium today and heap scorn on those of us not yet persuaded that we’re all guilty wretches. Consider Chris Mathews, of the Obama cable network, who said today, while apparently overcome by the rhetoric of the One that. . . “This is not partisan, but there is JFK and FDR and maybe, Barrack Obama.” Not partisan? Chris, who gets “shivers running up and down his legs” from listening to the Anointed, not partisan? I’ll retire to Bedlam.
Thought I’d give a shot at the poem thingy.
There once was a Muslim from Chi-Town,
Self-ordained king, though wearing no crown.
Grabbed sonofdy’s gats,
And raised soap-box’s tax,
And brought the economy way down.
The MSM has gone loony about Rick Warren but the same MSM has covered up Joseph Lowery’s history of antisemitism and his embrace of terrorists like Qadafi. In case anyone only watches the MSM, you might not know that Lowery in 1979 traveled to Lybia where he proudly presented Qadafi with the “Martin Luther King Medal of Freedom”. When Qadafi only a few years later arranged the bombing of a disco in Berlin and killed an African-American soldier who was there, Lowery had nothing to say. Qadafi was and is Lowery’s idol. Lowery also traveled to Lebanon where he and Walter Fauntroy called for the US to have an arms embargo against Israel. Lowery was so fanatically antiIsrael that Lowery actually accused Jimmy Carter of being a slave to “The Jewish Lobby”. Lowery commented that he thought Jews had too much influence in America. All of these quotes and photos are readily available but of course CNN would not ever mention any of it. CNN never tires of chastising Rick Warren, who is about the most decent man anyone could ever meet. But not a peep from Rick Sanchez or Christine Amanpour about Lowery’s antiSemitism.
Two wows:
Wow, Marie, you’re too kind. Give me a chance to polish the thing up, at least!
and
Wow, chapoutier, what’s come over you? Your Jedi mind tricks won’t work on me!
Ohhhh…they will work…they WILL work…
Obama is officially Prez.
With lotsa help from Ayers and Rez.
He got on the horn
With folks from ACORN
And said “I’m black so do what I sez.”
Neighborhood ball looks like a ball! BIG talent singing “Signed Sealed and Delivered”.
Barack doing rump-bumps with the peons..
Wow, Chap… whatcha drinkin? I could use a cocktail myself.
Chapoutier is a brand of wine so chap is a wino!
What is right is: Following laws, mores, customs, rules and the work ethic. Many things that those who talk are not accustomed to.
CO2 Producer #159 – leave it a lone – it’s just the way it should be…
Joseph Lowery is a bitterly hateful old man who listens to and does what his spiritual father tells him to do–the same who fathered the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Michael Pfleger, Fred Phelps, and the multitudes of Islamic imams who preach death to America.
The Spirit of God does not dwell in him, and as such he should be pitied.
Okay, the “homies” are doing rap crap now… Blah…..Blah……Blah…OOOO…BAAAMMM…AAAA
I call it a chapoutini.
Take one part vodka and mix it with three parts vodka, add a splash of vodka and serve over ice with a wedge of hope and change.
BAYROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHERE’S MY CHECK!!!!!!!!!
“Where white people will do what is right…” That means that he wants all white people to be moronic liberals. He wants all white Americans to be a$$ kissers of non-whites. Demand that all non-whites get away with crimes, don’t have to be productive and are fully justified in their “freedom” to actively pursue the destruction of this country from the inside. That is exactly what he means.
Dana Delaney just said she was looking forward to the new administration seeing to all women across the world will have access to abortion! What a great sentiment…. FOX News interview of stars.
Where exactly did you find Hammer and Sickle shaped wedges? The Obamessiah definitely giveth.
In an ironic note, when I woke up this morning, the Gary Cooper blockbuster “The Fountainhead” (yes, of Ayn Rand fame) was on AMC. How fitting to watch a movie about the evils of the collective, and the true spirit of the individual, on the day when America’s greatest Socialist president and Congress shared center stage.
Enjoy your vodka, Chap. If Obama is a true commie, the “people’s religion” will soon be as good as the stuff you can pick up in Russia. I recommend Nemiroff, if you can get you hand on it. Smooth, and absolutely no flavor.
I had to say a prayer myself while he prayed these things. I had to pray to God to forgive me for what I was wanting to do to this race-baiting oaf. I had to pray again when the crowd cheered.
If anything is good in the world, the wheels on Pres. Obama’s bus will go thump, thump, thump in 5, 4, 3, 2…
Just to clarify my comment #173… I’d never ever want to make a threat or carry out a violent action. I was pretty honked off at what I’d heard, though.
I told you so, America!
On January 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:
We are all one race – one human race.
Actually, I didn’t. I’ve practiced being color blind for over forty years, despite the left’s efforts to make me accept diversity.
If today’s inauguration is an indication of modern diversity, then the intended meaning of that word has changed from “differences” to “division.” As long as black racism exists, Obama’s call for us to be a “Nation of One People” will never bear fruit.
I’m feeling super punchy on hope, so here’s another shout out to all you commenters suffering out there.
There once was a President called O.
Was questioned by a Plumber named Joe.
Joe tried to expose
A wolf in sheep’s clothes.
But McCain was the shepherd they chose.
Obama and his followers really should order and watch this DVD:
On January 20th, 2009 at 10:35 pm, chapoutier said:
You and I actually agree on something?
LOL, Redpill.
Unintentional, but I will be sure to share whatever residuals I make from the poem.
Michelle- Gateway has the Reverend as the same guy that insulted the president at Coretta Scott King’s funeral. He turned it into a Wellstone memorial.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/again-democrats-prove-nothing-is.html
I’m getting sick of this crap, I’m white and I got it made? Oh I can’t be from a poor family, I can’t be just getting buy and needing to struggle in parts of my life. Heck I’m wrong as I’m white, I’m racist as I’m white.
I am sick of this racial identy BULL CRAP. I have more in common culterally with Asians, Heck my wife is Chinese and I see my self as a member of the human race well before skin color. And what of my Skin color I have mongolian and Native American ancestory thats in my blood line but doesn’t show on my skin. No Mister Lowery IT IS YOU WHO IS THE RACIST, IT IS YOU who deny people are people first, but rather color first, it is people like you who stigmitize whites for stuff done well over 100 hundred years ago AND WHO MANY WHITES DIED TO STOP.
It is people like you who my nephew is stared at and preassured to pick is he white or black, it is people like you who stare at me for having an asian wife. And that along many other things there will be a reconing and what ever god there is may they have mercy on your soul, I for sure never would.
Thanks again, Marie. I’ll try not to let the nice words go to my head too much.
And whoever is writing limericks under chapoutier’s moniker, release the poor soul. Begone, you filthy demon. Several hosts at MSNBC are more worthy of your possession.
Good night, folks.
On January 20th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Jet Jaguar said:
Amen to that!
Thank you for covering this Michelle. As soon as I heard that I couldn’t believe it (well, given Obama’s history and acquaintances, it wasn’t a surprise at all). I was wondering if I was the only one who would catch it, but I’m glad you and other bloggers are highlighting this disgusting comment.
Since the day Jimmy Carter took the Oath of Office back in 1976, and walked the length of the way from the Capital to the White House as a way to “Conserve fuel because of the fuel shortages”, which even I, as a lad of only 8 years old, saw as making absolutely no sense since his car had to follow behind him anyway, saving not one drop of gas, until the Inauguration of George W. Bush a mere four years ago, I have not missed a single Inauguration of a President. I even stayed home from school in 1985 to watch as President Reagan took the oath for the second time a mere 3 months from when I was fortunate enough to stand on the lawn of the California State Capital and listen to him give an incredible speech…the very thing that made me a life-long Conservitive, despite my very, very poor childhood.
That is, until today. I refused to watch a single second of this abomination. I refused to watch the hypocrisy of the expense. I refused to watch the man lie under oath, with his hand on the very Bible that the people he represents and who voted him into office spit on and denounce, who ridicule and insult and mock those who read and do their best to follow the words written therein. I refused to watch a man who has absolutely no business even being on that dias taking that oath to begin with, and feel now more than ever that this entire event will be proven to be illegal from the start.
I have, however, read the reports of what took place today, and can honestly say that I am not surprised in the least by any of it. Whether it was his supporters and those who eagerly, anxiously elected this Socialist booing, mocking, and laughing at Vice President Cheney for being in a wheelchair after injuring himself moving, the way they acted like drunken sophomores at a football game singing to President Bush, once more demonstrating their complete and utter inability to behave in a civil manner, even at this nations most cherished event.
I was not surprised in the least to hear how he was unable to take the Oath of Office without screwing it up and conveniently omitting words which will keep him safe should he be made accountable for that oath. The words he ended up uttering changed the Oath completely. (Watch as that comes up at some point in the future and how he uses it.)
I read his speech and was left wondering just where he has been living for the last few years. Obama’s America is NOT my America. I was not living in the same dismal, horrendous, miserable country he apparently has been living in. That speech did not inspire. It did not leave people with a sense of hope. It did not bring people to love their country, and it most definitely DID NOT bring this country together and work towards bridging gaps between Right and Left, old and young etc. Instead it left the reader as well as the listener scratching their head, wondering what the hell he was talking about.
The “Benediction” was horrendous as well as insulting. It followed a poem that made no sense, and kept with the same 40 year themes that have kept people from moving forward.
It insulted me, my family and my friends. It was an attack. It was offensive. If that is the way that President Barack Hussein Obama feels, how he views the people of this country and how he views religion, then he is no Christian as he claims, but is nothing more than the man Rev. Wright has claimed all along, a man who most certainly sat in that pew for 20 years listening to how Whitey is evil and has done nothing but keep “the brother man down”.
This is “hope”? This is “change”? This is the best that this country has to offer itself as well as the rest of the Free World?
My friends, I am, for the very first time in my life, most certainly disappointed in the people of this country, the greed, avarice and laziness it took to elect this man and the ignorance as well as plain stupidity of those who, while still calling themselves Republican or worse, Conservative, have jumped on the “bandwagon” of this naked emperor.
This should have been a proud day for this nation, the peaceful changing of leaders…an event envied throughout the globe…but instead it was nothing more than a 3 ring circus with Obama as the Ring Master and the MSM as the fools drinig and filling the clown car.
Based on how the black establishment has historically has treated almost every person of color who become successful in politics
I would have to say evey Uncle Tom came out of the woodwork today. Who knew???
(dont judge… ive never read the book and I only indirectly have idea of its meaning. and thats only because blacks call other blacks that name)
RT, I completely sympathize… Let’s just hope and pray that the weight of history presses down on Obama to slow his agenda, and that the momentum of our Manifest Destiny will blunt, minimize, and repudiate the plans of Obama and the leftists. We should pray that God would change this man’s heart to do right by the Constitution and the intentions of the Founders. I also pray for the true Sons and Daughters of this Nation to stand watch and be ready to sound the alarm and act if one more inch of our Liberty is claimed by the enemies of our Constitution.
God, please give us the passion to care, the conviction to speak out for Truth, the courage to act, and faith to know that you are in control.
My 17 year old daughter came to me tonight, just after I posted this…though no relation to it…and was genuinely concerned. She is just now learning about the rise of Hitler in Germany, and has, over the last week or so, come to see the parallels. She is not exactly as politically savvy as I would wish, and so I then spent the next half hour showing her several things, such as the Obama youth videos…the one with the small children singing to their leader, followed by avideo of German children doing the same in their classrooms. She even noted that the two songs were very similar in wording, tone and even in the way the tune was carried. I showed her next the Obama youth Militant guys, the ones in the black t-shirts, camo pants, boots etc. This really worried her as well, and especially as she began to relate it to what is being said in her own school.
She asked me if I thought there would eventually be chaos created by all of this.
All I could tell her was, “When you have a President that does not allow dissent, where anyone who questions him, questions his beliefs, questions his ideas, and who does not follow the “Party Line” is called and labeled a “racist”, which stifles any and all dissent and questions since no one wants such a label as well as all that it involves…what do you think?”
She then shook her head and went to bed.
I am not a conspiricy person in the least. I am a person who mocks those types. I have also spent many years laughing at a neighbor I had who has a small arsenal in his home and who is a “fear the govt.” type. However, I have taken to making sure I will never need worry that I am short of ammunition, nor weapons. Can’t explain it. Just a feeling I have been getting for a while now.
Nothing says “unity” quite like race-baiting on Day One, no?
I guess that affiliation with Rev. Wright wasn’t exactly an anomaly, was it?
RabbidSquirrel said: (#189)
RobbidSquirrel, it’s a good book. I read it many years ago, so I don’t remember a lot of details. But I do remember that I ended up reading it for the story, not because it was an important book. My recollection is that Uncle Tom was actually pretty noble. His character, I think, has been distorted.
Minor note: I think chapoutier was indeed filled with “hope” yesterday as he told us a couple of days ago that he would be. Yet, I detect a note of disquiet in his verse. Maybe we have gotten to him?
More significant note: I agree with several of you that there is indeed only one race, the human race. Race baiting and divisions based on skin color should have been over YEARS ago–as Dr. King hoped for. Messrs Lowry, Jackson, Sharpton et al are race baiting shake-down artists who don’t deserve the title “reverened”, except in the very narrow sense that they may have taken the appropriate major in college. (They certainly didn’t learn what any of it meant.)
On January 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, fmfnavydoc said:
Why do the Donks/Civil Right people still fight the Civil War? Both sides of my family came over to this country after the war! Does that make me guilty of what their ancestors went through during slavery? And, if I recall, weren’t the Donks a proponent of slavery for years, well before the Civil War???
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You bring up a few interesting points:
1. Slavery did not begin, and sadly, did not end with the founding of the U.S. But, somehow, in the eyes of men like this, we get all of the blame for our involvement in it and none of the credit for whatever part we played in ending it (as far as outlawing it in this country).
2. How many whites here now are directly descended from someone who owned slaves/faught with the Confederate Army? More of us probably come from people who arrived here long after the Civil War. In any case, we deserve no credit or blame for anything any of our long-ago anscestors may have done.
3. What if someone can prove that someone in their family faught for the Union, that no one in their family ever owned a slave, that their family (going back to my previous point) was not even here yet during the Civil War? They still have to literally pay for the past?
Reparations is a stupid and unfair idea all around.
I was willing to give Lowery the benefit of a doubt, to write this off as a Trent Lott moment where he tried to be nice to someone but used words that unintentionally conveyed a very not-nice message – a belief that the dominant culture really hasn’t accepted Dr. King’s dream. But I didn’t realize that he was the same guy who used the occasion of the Coretta Scott King funeral to deliver that political tirade against the President (who was in attendance).
Didn’t a majority of whites help elect Barack Obama? Shouldn’t that be considered a “right act” for ‘whitey’? This pastor’s benediction may turn some of them off…..
On January 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm, fmfnavydoc said:
Why do the Donks/Civil Right people still fight the Civil War? Both sides of my family came over to this country after the war! Does that make me guilty of what their ancestors went through during slavery? And, if I recall, weren’t the Donks a proponent of slavery for years, well before the Civil War???
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You bring up a few interesting points:
1. Slavery did not begin, and sadly, did not end with the founding of the U.S. But, somehow, in the eyes of men like this, we get all of the blame for our involvement in it and none of the credit for whatever part we played in ending it (as far as outlawing it in this country).
2. How many whites here now are directly descended from someone who owned slaves/faught with the Confederate Army? More of us probably come from people who arrived here long after the Civil War. In any case, we deserve no credit or blame for anything any of our long-ago anscestors may have done.
3. What if someone can prove that someone in their family faught for the Union, that no one in their family ever owned a slave, that their family (going back to my previous point) was not even here yet during the Civil War? They still have to literally pay for the past?
Reparations is a stupid and unfair idea all around.
—frostrt
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These people, too, forget that blacks in the South — both slave and free — willingly chose to pick up weapons, don the Grey Uniform, and defend the South from the Union Armies. The black man who was going to the front lines in Gone with the Wind — Scarlett O’Hare’s slave? He was an example of thousands….