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For a man who hates racism.....I find this to be a very racist remark. Is this a way to start out a new presidency? Obama thinks we should all be color blind and then lets a racist give the benediction. Nice, real nice.
Actually, Rev. Lowery has always said it this way:
"When Black won't be asked to get back ...
When Brown can stick around ...
When yellow can be mellow ...
When the Red Man can get ahead, man ...
And when White is alright."
I've heard him say it like this for decades; I heard him say it this way at an Obama rally almost two years ago. Why he changed it, I don't know. He may wish to make a public statement and clarify himself.
That said, Rev. Lowery is 88 years old and his life embodies that of an American hero. He's hardly a racist. To accuse him of being so, says more about the narrowest of minds that could form such a thought, than it could ever say about Rev. Lowery himself.
There will be no end to racism. It is always thrown out there as a reason or excuse that something has gone a certain way. It is a scapegoat for those who will not do what obama has asked them to do, be responsible for your self. What will be the reason thrown out there when nothing actually changes and its business as usual?
There will be no end to racism. It is always thrown out there as a reason or excuse that something has gone a certain way. It is a scapegoat for those who will not do what obama has asked them to do, be responsible for your self. What will be the reason thrown out there when nothing actually changes and its business as usual?
What, then, is the the original poster's reason or excuse for throwing racism "out there"?
Peyton c criticized me for;
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Originally Posted by golfgod No worse than allowing a bigot like that fat slob from Orange County open his yap.
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Tasteful. Tell me, do you always use name calling as your way of sticking out your tongue at people who disagree with you? Kinda third grade, don't ya think?
Not a bit. He is a bigot, or have you not heard, or read his comments on gays? He is a fat slob, and I was too busy to look up his name. As a child, in my church we were taught that "our body is our temple", and to abuse it is a sin. This is the only time I've seen him without a 44 oz slurpee cup in his mug.
Actually, Rev. Lowery has always said it this way:
"When Black won't be asked to get back ...
When Brown can stick around ...
When yellow can be mellow ...
When the Red Man can get ahead, man ...
And when White is alright."
I've heard him say it like this for decades; I heard him say it this way at an Obama rally almost two years ago. Why he changed it, I don't know. He may wish to make a public statement and clarify himself.
That said, Rev. Lowery is 88 years old and his life embodies that of an American hero. He's hardly a racist. To accuse him of being so, says more about the narrowest of minds that could form such a thought, than it could ever say about Rev. Lowery himself.
I call it like I see it, his comments were inappropriate. In his mind, "white ain't right" and he said so publicly, which makes his statement racist. If you are so open minded about his statement, what did it mean to you?
I admit when I 1st heard it, I gave a frustrated little sigh.
I still think it was in bad taste but......
About 20 years ago I worked with a woman who at the time was 72 yo. When a black person was mentioned she would call them "colored". She wasn't mean about it but come on "Colored?"
We tried to get her to stop but when the person we were trying to protect told us that it didn't both him, he just took her age into consideration and he understood that saying that was the acceptable thing at the time she was growing up. Eyes opened.
So, I'm going to take his age into consideration and let it go.
I call it like I see it, his comments were inappropriate. In his mind, "white ain't right" and he said so publicly, which makes his statement racist. If you are so open minded about his statement, what did it mean to you?
As I said, yesterday was the first time I've ever heard him say "white/embrace what's right" instead of "white is alright". So I don't know what to make of the change (I'm in my mid-40s, live in Atlanta, have visited Rev. Lowery's church, and have never heard anything anti-white or anti-anyone else).
Would you have been OK with him saying--as he's said for decades--that "white is alright"?
I admit when I 1st heard it, I gave a frustrated little sigh.
I still think it was in bad taste but......
About 20 years ago I worked with a woman who at the time was 72 yo. When a black person was mentioned she would call them "colored". She wasn't mean about it but come on "Colored?"
We tried to get her to stop but when the person we were trying to protect told us that it didn't both him, he just took her age into consideration and he understood that saying that was the acceptable thing at the time she was growing up. Eyes opened.
So, I'm going to take his age into consideration and let it go.
I understand that sentiment - but again, that is not the larger issue here.
What is at stake is the fact that what was said was clearly innapropriate. More innapropriate is the dismissal of that simple fact by so many in the media who would otherwise judge harshly such a sentiment if spoken by a white person. It is that glaringly consistent double-standard that continues to hold up the idea that race in America is a problem. And why would that be done? Perhaps it is simple greed. Profiting from the concept of racial injustice has been very lucrative business in this country for decades.
The conclusion of this benediction was a direct link to the infamous commentary by Obama's long time pastor Wright.
This negative conclusion to the Obama inauguration will pass - hopefully, but it certainly left me a bit concerned as to the future tone of this administration. I am hopeful Obama will rise above such nonsense, for certainly the vast majority of America has for some time, but some residual concern will likely remain for me.
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