Oh Lord, when will I embrace what is right?!
Where are you atheists now? Did the country just get asked to pray to our Lord for the white race to embrace what is right?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Really?!
On January 20, 2009, Dr. Lowery delivered the benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. He opened with lines from "Lift Every Voice and Sing," also known as "The Negro National Anthem," by James Weldon Johnson. His invocation included the following passage: "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 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. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen"
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That poem has 108 years of history in the Civil Rights Movement, of which a lot of people consider a black president to be a milestone. I'd say it's appropriate, especially given the speaker.
ReplyDeleteI heard the "white will embrace what is right" line on the radio this morning and it made me sick.
ReplyDeletePeople need to take some personal fucking responsibility. You need money? Go to work! You can't get the job you want? Go to school! Don't blame white people for your shortcomings.
I heard so much shit in those speeches about spreading our wealth around. Communism doesn't work! Look at the Soviet Union!
How about "black embrace what is right"? Is disproportionately filling our prisons what is right? Is fathering children and then abandoning them what is right?
And what is the comment about "yellow will be mellow". Asian people are the most fucking mellow people in the entire country! I believe that's some kind of lingering animosity against the Asians that tried to defend their lives and businesses from the LA riots 15 years ago. How about causing a billion dollars of damage and killing innocent people? Is that "what is right?"
As far as I'm concerned, white already does embrace what is right. It's black that has their priorities all fucked up.
And Asians are mellow as a motherfucker.
Most would perceive my honesty as racism, but it's just fact.
ReplyDeleteAnd let me say this: I would vote for the blackest black guy in the history of the planet if he wasn't a radical commie liberal.
I don't hate Obama because he's faux black. I hate him because he's a commie.
"Asian people are the most fucking mellow people in the entire country! ...
ReplyDeleteAnd Asians are mellow as a motherfucker."
This reminds me of another quote:
"I'm a people person. ... Don't you get that? What the hell is wrong with you people!" — Tom Smykowski, Office Space
Never mind that "mellow" was likely chosen simply because it rhymed with yellow, 93 years before the LA riots.
> Never mind that "mellow" was likely chosen simply because it rhymed with yellow, 93 years before the LA riots.
ReplyDeleteYou can't just say something and be excused from its meaning because it was said a long time ago.
If I bust out some racist quotes by our founding fathers about how blacks are less intelligent than whites, would it be OK because it was said in the 18th century?
Yeah, you can't quote something that is patently racist and give it a pass because its historical. Do I need to provide examples?
ReplyDeleteThe Negro National Anthem has 108 years of history. The racist quote in question is NOT in the Negro National Anthem. That was Rev. Lowery's own pontification on race.
"The racist quote in question is NOT in the Negro National Anthem. That was Rev. Lowery's own pontification on race."
ReplyDeleteI retract all that I've said so far. The article quoted made it sound like the quote came from the poem, but now I see that I read it wrong.
But I still think it is an over reaction. I don't really see this as racist. And this is surprising coming from two guys who bitch about political correctness to now bitch for political correctness.
>>bitch for political correctness
ReplyDeleteIn politics, yes. That is a good place to be correct. :)