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Old 01-20-2009, 08:16 PM
 
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YouTube - Rev. Joseph Lowery delivers racist address at Obama inauguration

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JOSEPH E. LOWERY: 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 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. Let all those who'll do justice and love mercy say amen.
the anti-White part could be expeted, but notice the subtle dig at the Asians!!
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Old 01-20-2009, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Read the description of the man at wikipedia.org. He's been giving speeches with that sentence in it for YEARS. You're talking old news.
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Old 01-20-2009, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Go ahead. Be outraged.
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Old 01-20-2009, 09:02 PM
 
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Go ahead. Be outraged.
There will always be those that believe the right to be offended is a god given right, or at least guaranteed by the Constitution. They are really a pathetic group of whiners who will never lift a finger to help anyone but themselves.
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Old 01-20-2009, 09:22 PM
 
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Too funny. Rev Joseph Lowery who along with Martin Luther King, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference turns the old adage"

"Yellow is mellow, brown can stick around but black stay back" is metaphorically stood upon its head, the speaker is racist? Puleeze!
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Old 01-20-2009, 09:25 PM
 
Location: Floribama
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There will always be those that believe the right to be offended is a god given right, or at least guaranteed by the Constitution. They are really a pathetic group of whiners who will never lift a finger to help anyone but themselves.
I'm sure that description can be placed on you occasionally.
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Old 01-20-2009, 09:51 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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when black will not be asked to give back
what?
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Old 01-20-2009, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Philly, Philly
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It was funny.

" My President is half black and half white, so even the racists can be happy that he's half right." Jay-Z

LOL
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Idaho Falls
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So many people have no working conception of racism. They seem to believe that pointing out race, or color, is racism. Sad really.
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Old 01-20-2009, 10:19 PM
 
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I thought it was a beautiful speech. I thought he was wonderful. What is everybody so upset about??? It was harmless
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