For a personal take on where race relations are at after this historic and bitterly devisive candidacy see my Obama's Quagmire post this morning. To say I was pissed off this morning when my daughter called is the understatement of the year.
Some one needs to tell the Rev. Joseph Lowery that a black man has just been elected to the oval office, by a majority of white Americans. Racism is not the serious problem in America that it once was. The KKK and the Neo Nazis are completely out of the mainstream
There is no way you can console a victim once he calls him or herself a victim.
Blacks will remain victims until they see themselves as other wise.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:34:00 pm
Anonymous said...
The fault lines will change as Islamification progresses. In Britain (we're probably about five years ahead of the US in the slide down into dhimmitude), the majority of people now believe that religion, rather than race, is the most divisive issue in society: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1123176/Religion-divides-race-say-Britons.html
Nit: Second line transcribed incorrectly. It should read, "when black will not be asked to get back"
Serious: As a white person who tries in her daily life to embrace what is right, I find the last line insulting. He should have said, "when all will embrace what is right."
You are correct, any one who could actually spend twenty years in that church and not notice the hatred spewing out of Reverend Wright's mouth, (as Obama claims) sounds like a person too obvious to run the country. Also, if he did notice, and did not care, why should we think that he didn't agree with any of it? Either way we have good reason to doubt that he's going to make a good president.
By the way, don't excuse reverend wright because he's black. Martin Luther King was a black man who had to deal with extreme white racism, and his sermons were nothing like reverend wright's. In fact, I think if he were alive, he'd condemn the words of reverend wright.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:59:00 pm
Anonymous said...
Personally I look forward for the day when black will not ask white to give more and white will be allowed to embrace his own people for a change.
I look forward to the day when King's words will be true, that people will be judged not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.
So do I! Unfortunately there are still racists in the world, despite there beliefs being out of the mainstream in our society.
Friday, January 23, 2009 1:59:00 am
This story is all over the right-thinking blogosphere, but it's so disgusting, and downright scary, that it needs spreading far and wide. Rev. Joseph Lowery said in his benediction at today's inauguration:
“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"
No doubt, "embracing what is right" will have much to do with wallowing in unearned guilt and self-loathing and serving as milch cows for Obama's brave new America of mutual submission to his new Declaration of Interdependence. Can "reparations" be far behind?
As with the booing of President George W. Bush at today's event, one can always depend on the Democrats/Left to be their race-baiting, classless selves.
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Close this window Jump to comment formThe booing of GWB was in very poor taste. I say this not being a fan of GWB, though I twice voted for him out of what I viewed as necessity.
Some of the networks covering the Inauguration cut the mikes during the booing.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:33:00 pm
For a personal take on where race relations are at after this historic and bitterly devisive candidacy see my Obama's Quagmire post this morning. To say I was pissed off this morning when my daughter called is the understatement of the year.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:45:00 pm
Grant Jones,
Some one needs to tell the Rev. Joseph Lowery that a black man has just been elected to the oval office, by a majority of white Americans. Racism is not the serious problem in America that it once was. The KKK and the Neo Nazis are completely out of the mainstream
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:16:00 pm
There is no way you can console a victim once he calls him or herself a victim.
Blacks will remain victims until they see themselves as other wise.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:34:00 pm
The fault lines will change as Islamification progresses. In Britain (we're probably about five years ahead of the US in the slide down into dhimmitude), the majority of people now believe that religion, rather than race, is the most divisive issue in society:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1123176/Religion-divides-race-say-Britons.html
Your intifada will come.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:40:00 pm
This is the kind of stuff that makes me very angry. Obama should not have allowed this to happen.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:53:00 pm
Nit: Second line transcribed incorrectly. It should read,
"when black will not be asked to get back"
Serious: As a white person who tries in her daily life to embrace what is right, I find the last line insulting. He should have said, "when all will embrace what is right."
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:08:00 am
The whole thing was vile, and this disgusting old black racist spewing his hatred is a bad sign for us.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:18:00 am
Well that certainly lowered the level. Did it ever get above that, or did Rev. Lovery set the tone for the day?
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:33:00 am
I'm with Rachel on this.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:49:00 am
Pastorius,
So do I.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:14:00 am
He meant to say "end when white will embrace what is Wright"
Same sermon, different preacher.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:17:00 am
If he can't rid himself of these guys, this admin will prove a black president will end as more divisive than any other.
It's inconceivable that he will not hew to the incredibly critical issues and toss these people under hte bus.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:24:00 pm
Epa,
It is inconcevable, but then, so is spending twenty years in that fucking church in the first place.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:25:00 pm
Pastorius,
You are correct, any one who could actually spend twenty years in that church and not notice the hatred spewing out of Reverend Wright's mouth, (as Obama claims) sounds like a person too obvious to run the country. Also, if he did notice, and did not care, why should we think that he didn't agree with any of it? Either way we have good reason to doubt that he's going to make a good president.
By the way, don't excuse reverend wright because he's black. Martin Luther King was a black man who had to deal with extreme white racism, and his sermons were nothing like reverend wright's. In fact, I think if he were alive, he'd condemn the words of reverend wright.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:59:00 pm
Personally I look forward for the day when black will not ask white to give more and white will be allowed to embrace his own people for a change.
Friday, January 23, 2009 12:10:00 am
I look forward to the day when King's words will be true, that people will be judged not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.
Friday, January 23, 2009 12:12:00 am
Pastorius,
So do I! Unfortunately there are still racists in the world, despite there beliefs being out of the mainstream in our society.
Friday, January 23, 2009 1:59:00 am