Inaugural benediction: Pray that “white will embrace what is right”
posted at 1:55 pm on January 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
Didn’t whites just do that by electing Jesus Christ president?
Welcome to the post-racial age. Exit question: Hey, that Rick Warren’s pretty controversial, huh?
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Am I allowed to be offended?
KelliD on January 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM
We are no longer racist. We elected a half black President who surrounded himself with black goons to make himself look authentic. So stop whining.
Speedwagon82 on January 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Biggest public declaration of racist beliefs since Al Campanis.
playblu on January 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM
The race hustlers will never stop, even if every single person of power in the government is African-American. It’s their livelihood.
Jim62sch on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Nothing like being called racist by a racist.
Hopey Changey?
Nopey.
fogw on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
No – he’s gonna embrace what’s left.
Tommy_G on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
KelliD – if you are white – you cannot, because you’re wrong.
– Garcon, another memo for KelliD!
kybowexar on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I’ve never judged anyone by their color in my life.
I haven’t held a black man down.
I haven’t made someone sit in the back of the bus.
I haven’t stolen someone’s land, family, dreams, etc.
I am SICK AND TIRED of it being alright to make blanket statements about white people as if it’s just generally accepted that they’re the scum of the earth.
It is completely inappropriate to have that in any prayer, much less a prayer at an inauguration that is supposed to be about how “We’re all one”.
JadeNYU on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I wonder how well a benediction would’ve gone if a white protestant priest, in any political persuasion, had said “and black should embrace what is right”.
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Can I sue someone for racisit comments yet?
When will the Government Office Of Objectional Speech be open?
Mark Garnett on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
My jaw dropped in disgust when I heard that live. I did not relaize I was a racist. It is good to know my unkown faults will be illuminated to me during the age of Obama.
WashJeff on January 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Racist jerk!
grapeknutz on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Change
Notorious GOP on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
WTF? That man must be experiencing the first stages of dementia.
toliver on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
But what will be left once we get done with all that “Hope and changey” stuff?
katiejane on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
As a white, it’s more offensive that pr!ck said “red man” and “yella.” That bigotry is on YOU, Barry.
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
As I said in the previous thread, that benediction was the moment I got off the fence and declared: NOT MY PRESIDENT!
I’m still steamed. What a national disgrace.
Anton on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Well I am a “typical white person”.
Doughboy on January 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM
If you are white, have no spite.
lorien1973 on January 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM
No.
Racist.
lorien1973 on January 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM
The race hustlers are just starting up. What’s that old saying of giving someone an inch?
jukin on January 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM
One more thing: FU Obama. I know you and your transition team pre-approved that benediction. You just threw bipartisanship and “healing” out the window.
Anton on January 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
I guess I’m off to be, um, “reeducated.”
KelliD on January 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
The whole poem and demented benediction after the Messiah’s speech was sorta WTF inducing.
Sugar Land on January 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Yes, but that is not enough, apparently. The white devil must also keep his mouth shut and fall in line…or else he won’t be embracing ‘what is right’…which would be racist!
AUINSC on January 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Don’t you know? All whites ARE racist, now by definition. In case there’s any lingering confusion, the One will be signing an executive order later this afternoon proclaiming such.
Darksean on January 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
No, but if you’re white, you assume guilt for all past wrongful acts by whites against non-whites. This does not apply to non-whites.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:01 PM
This just in, Ha Ha.
juanito on January 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
*sigh* You guys are all spelling it wrong. That’s the problem. I’m sure that if you look at his notes you’ll see that it says “…whites will embrace. What is Wright?”
Think Jeopardy, I’ll take “Things that won’t bloody happen” for $1,000, please.
Shawn_NH on January 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
In this new “post racial” era it’s amazing that you crackers are complaining.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Any white person who boos Obama should expect a beatdown when a Republican is getting inaugurated 4 years from now.
Speedwagon82 on January 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
A new age of Tolerance!
cs89 on January 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Keep honking, I’m reloading.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Well, the next time the NCAA tries to get colleges to change racist team names, the colleges can quote them the Revrund Lowery.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:03 PM
All hell would break lose.
Cr4sh Dummy on January 20, 2009 at 2:03 PM
This marks the last time the civil rights leaders of yesterday can play the “race card” against whites (or in Star Trek lingo, “pink skins”).
We are now sexists (holding women to a different and higher standard than men) not racists.
Sweetness0726 on January 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM
“white will embrace what is right”
Reparations!!!!!
ChrisM on January 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM
At least the good Reverend had the sense to leave “And when the Jew will give money back to you” on the cutting room floor.
Bruno Strozek on January 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM
This is crap. We’ve accomplished all of this in our country. What is he talking about? Why is it that some want to continue to tear down our country instead of admitting what we’ve accomplished?
I mean, after all, who just got inaugurated?
http://briansutton.com/photoblog/subsidizing-a-culture-of-irresponsibility/
funsutton on January 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM
CONFIRMED: Blacks are the worst racists and are the ones promoting racist thinking and language to keep the conflict going.
TheMightyQuinn on January 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Dodger Blue? Meh.
juanito on January 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM
I was white at one time. Then I renewed my DL in my home stste of Alabama, and didn’t notice that they put an H in for race. Two years later I asked what the H was for, and they said I was now termed as Haspanic. And I’m Native American. go figure.
Alex Martinez on January 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Racism and bigotry accepted by the media.
Move along, nothing to see here.
hawkdriver on January 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM
My family wasn’t even IN this Country before the 1880′s.
I don’t suffer from white guilt.
next.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Maybe you’re not, but there are plenty of people who still insist on calling Obama by his middle name (what point are they trying to make?), and white politicians who push (and then defend!) that stupid “Barack the Magic Negro” stuff. I’m not saying that they’re racists, but they sure do sound like it sometimes.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Poor Rev. Wright. That was supposed to be his gig.
“Pray that your white-ies aren’t too tight-y?” WTF was that?
Nat Hound on January 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM
I want to see reparations paid by the descendants of those blacks that enslaved the blacks to sell them to whites.
Or will history be artfully edited to envision Jefferson et al skipping around Africa with giant man-sized butterfly nets, bagging negroes left, right & center?
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM
pthphtpht… I’m black on the left side and white on the right my race will not be denied.
(nor will my race as an ugly bag of water either!)
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Being called a racist by the far left Obamatron loonies, is definitely a badge of honor. This guy should be first in line for his Freedom of Speech Award. Doesn’t the left always give those awards to the most asinine comments.
MDWNJ on January 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Along with the rest of us.
See you inside the wire.
___________
RJGatorEsq. on January 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Heh. Well played, Cody.
Anton on January 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM
I thought Reggie White done gone toward The Light.
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM
This sh!t will never stop. Thanks America. You’ve really done a great job with your idiotic appeasement …
This is what stupidity begets.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Those were my first thoughts also. Right after “Did I hear that right??”
Itchee Dryback on January 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM
And I am praying that black embraces education…
right2bright on January 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Oh….that must be where things got confused.
The only things I assume guilt for are things that I directly contributed to or things that I could have alleviated but made a conscious decision not to.
Everything else is on the people responsible for it.
JadeNYU on January 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Uh-like I said on another thread-If I can prove my white ancestor freed all his black slaves & left them all of his valuable property, I get a pass on being a racist-right?
Let’s room together in the new Gulag. It’ll be fun. But bring a suitcase full of hoagy bait, soap & warm clothes. Siberia is open for business!
Badger40 on January 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Collectivists are scum.
Rae on January 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM
DOH!
Badger40 on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Shocked, shocked, shocked!!! NOT
What did y’all think after Barry the Buffoon sat in the pews of TUCC for 20 yrs listening to Rev. Wright? Yeah, he’s got ADS and didn’t hear any of that shiite.
Anyway, none of these protests are helping MO’s children, so shaddup.
On a serious note folks, it’s time to speak up about this. Write to Barry and let him no that this crap is unacceptable.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Why don’t the Chinese have a white premier? How about Nigeria, why won’t they elect whites into power?
RAAACIST!
Why won’t the United States elect a woman to the office of Vice President?
SEEEEXIST!
Wow, this game is really easy to play. Thanks for teaching us the rules, Mr. Moulitsas.
Jim62sch on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
People of all colors have been enslaved and been enslavers from the dawn of history to the present day.
None have done more to correct this injustice than caucasians.
Thank a whitey on your way out.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
He is right – I think all whited should embrace the RIGHT – how insightful
iam7545 on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
can we talk about what michelle was wearing? that outfit was fug!
anna on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Classy. Whites and Asians=bad. Everyone else=right
But why not mention the Jooooos? Like, “The day when the Hebe will no longer deceive.” Or Italians: “The day when the Garlic Noses don’t act like racist foe-ses.”
exlibris on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Does Kool and the Gang know “Hail to the Chief”?
“Obama challenges Putin over Eastern Encroachment – POTUS offers first insult in playing the dozens”
BobMbx on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
So happy to have been in a meeting today from 11 to 1.
JammieWearingFool on January 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM
But they don’t call him Hussein because of his color. If he were a white leftist with the same middle name they’d be doing the same thing.
The “Magic Negro” is actually from an article, written by a black leftist discussing why Obama is considered so acceptable to white people. The article itself is inherently racist but is accepted as intellectual analysis. But when somebody puts the text to music and satirizes it to point out the hypocrisy of it… they’re racist?
Skywise on January 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM
What a jerk preacher!
I despise all this race baiting garbage. One of the worst inaugurations EVER!!
jencab on January 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM
“We
shallHAVE overcome, WeshallHAVE overcome, WeshallHAVE overcome….SomedayTODAY.”The African American has reached the highest office in the land.
Sorry Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton. You are out of business.
portlandon on January 20, 2009 at 2:10 PM
*sigh* Lowry just showed out and demonstrated folks ignorance. First the whole speech were a series of sly cues to the Civil Rights Movement. The opening phrases were lyrics from the Black National Anthem, Life Ev’ry Voice and Sing. And the final quote “brown will stick around, red man can get ahead man etc.” is a famous Malcolm X quote. I also think it’s a little hilarious that conservatives get incredibly upset when they feel someone is playing the PC card when a conservative does something offensive. Like trying to smear Obama because his middle name happens to be Hussein. But then are the most scandalized and victimized over one line in a Benediction. What racist policies did he enact again?
DeathToMediaHacks on January 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
“And black should stop entertaining hacks.”
Like this guy. Or Wright. Or Sharpton. Or Revrund Jackson the Greater or Lesser.
BKennedy on January 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Obama has already kept one promise.
He ended Global Warming.
It is colder than Hillary Clinton’s nipples in Atlanta.
__________
RJGatorEsq. on January 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
They wouldn’t let her wear her ceremonial outfit with the spiked gauntlets and spinal armor, because the United States racistly discriminates against Klingon culture.
Jim62sch on January 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
sigh…. no = know
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
I know EXACTLY what you’re saying.
Oink on January 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Hopey Changemas everybody!
NoFanofLibs on January 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM
How embarassing for Obama. The racists in his camp just don’t get it.
izoneguy on January 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM
He who smelt it, dealt it applies.
BobMbx on January 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Just great.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM
“Right” according to who, exactly? I’d like to know more about this guy’s doubtlessly fascinating take on morality.
TheUnrepentantGeek on January 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM
People of all colors have been enslaved and been enslavers from the dawn of history to the present day.
None have done more to correct this injustice than caucasians.
Thank a whitey on your way out.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM
+100 It would be great if people actually got an education and learned some history, eh?
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Think of all the little kids in school auditoriums who heard that. Seriously folks, imagine being a white kid and hearing that from an obviously important adult. Absolutely sickening.
ckdexterhaven on January 20, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Acceptance isn’t enough. I must be made to atone for all those ancestors in J.E.B. Stuarts cavalry and Longstreet’s III Corps.
Limerick on January 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Excuse me, but wasn’t Malcolm X from the 1960′s? Here we are in 2009 having just elected a black man as POTUS.
The demented old $hit’s comments were out of line.
I still have the right to be offended (last I knew), and I am.
Oink on January 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM
+1
Vashta.Nerada on January 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM
What this D-bag wanted to really say was “honkies will embrace the donkey”
This douche is the black equivalent to white trash.
leetpriest on January 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Hm, that’s just the point. Everyone goes off on that “Magic Negro” stuff but they looked the other way for the far-more explicit Rev. Wright and I’m sure they’ll do the same for this prayer. In the truly post-racial world, turnabout would be fair play.
…
(Obligatory “I’m not a racist” addendum: I am not a racist; the irony of it is just too delicious to ignore.)
fiscallyconservative on January 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
If only your from the left!
grapeknutz on January 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
And do you seriously believe that he and his wife are cut from a different cloth?
Oink on January 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
This is sick!
Thank you “enlightened voters” . . . you really slipped it to us this time.
rplat on January 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Was he followed by Lee Greenwood singing “God Bless the USKKKA”, against a backdrop of roosting chickens?
Jim62sch on January 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Maybe if Obama hadn’t acted like saying his true middle name was a hate crime, we wouldn’t feel the need to mention it so much.
Speedwagon82 on January 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM
What a freaking slap in the face and kick in the crotch; FVCK HIM!
mindhacker on January 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Of course everybody here knows why this keeps happening and why it will continue indefinitely…it put Barry in the WH and made Jesse Jackson a multi-millionaire, etc…white liberal guilt is a very powerful and that well is inexhaustible. So the 2012 campaign starts today…
AUINSC on January 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Hopenchange has truly arrived when a the inaugural benediction calls for white people to embrace right-wing policies. Glory!
Why are you looking at me funny?
innominatus on January 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I turned on FoxNews this morning and they were chatting with Jim Brown, yeah the one who abuses women, anyway, he DID say that this [Baracky being POTUS] should now set a precedent where blacks no longer can say they can’t succeed because of racism. I was SHOCKED, shocked I tell you.
kirkill on January 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I was hoping my great-grandfather’s honorable discharge from the Union Army will get me 10% off on my reparations payments.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Pray also that Wright will embrace what is white.
Watch what you say about whites–we’re still 3/4 of the voters.
Welcome to the Black House, Mr. President.
Steve Z on January 20, 2009 at 2:18 PM
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