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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Dear Lord! What more do we have to do?!
ThePrez on January 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Didn’t Africans sell their countrymen to slave ships? So why again are white people still taking all the heat? Why not go ahead and talk crap about Africans, because their ancestors perpetuated the situation?
…wait, what? They’re victims of white oppression, too? Dammit. I guess I’ll join KelliD — we’ll be in reeducation if you need us.
fiscallyconservative on January 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Fool, may you embrace serfdom for yourself, but not for the rest of us. I will not pay for your ignorance.
Schadenfreude on January 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Check and see who over in Africa was actually capturing and selling the slaves to the Ameican and European slave traders.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
For now. She’ll let us know when permission has been revoked again.
Blacklake on January 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
they are going to play this card as long as we let them get away with it, period
jp on January 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Most black leaders like Jackson, Sharpton and the Rev. Wright have been trading in racism and Hate Whitey blather for years. The pundits, media and in large part, the Obama voters wanted to make a point that if a black man could rise to the highest office in this country then segregation and racism could be abolished. It was a great statement of fact that voters of all ages and races overcame any degree of racism to elect a black man. All the good feelings went up in smoke when you see a black man telling white people to embrace what is right. Go screw yourself, you old coot.
sherry on January 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM
beththebaker on January 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Perpetual guilt. Perpetual apologies. Perpetual affirmative action. Perpetual reparations. A world without end.
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
There are no white Americans alive who held slaves just as there are no blacks alive who were slaves. For this to be an issue for any one today is the definition of racism – thinking in terms of race – rather than the individual. Since it is the living individual that will pay the price, or reap the reward, of race-based ideals, not the perpetrators or victims of slavery, to inculcate race-based thinking is exactly what the term “racism” means.
keep the change on January 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
the most MEMORABLE QUOTE from the ceremony was not one of Obama’s, it was HATE SPEECH from his preacher man.
Chisel it on stone.
jeff_from_mpls on January 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
You missed it by a mile. You need to read both comments again carefully. If we honkies are going to get continually blamed for something we never did, why not get credit. It was the Anglo world that was the first to recognize human rights and dignity. Britain and shortly after, the US abolished slavery.
I’ve met thousands and thousands of white people in my life, and have yet to meet a slave owner or anyone who supported the idea of slavery. Even my great-grandparents weren’t born during that time. It is time to let it go.
Laura in Maryland on January 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
I was called a blankety-blank Yid a couple weeks ago. Is that hope and change, I wonder?
mjk on January 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Dear Lord! What more do we have to do?!
ThePrez on January 20, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Pay until you die. And your children, too.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM
My family landed in the Bahamas(slave holders) in 1653 and moved to Virginia(slave holders) in 1659, on to the Carolinas(slave holders), Tennessee(slave holders), Kentucy(slave holders), Arkansas(slave holders).
In 2009 we are now in Texas (and not slave holders). I supply this information so the new America can properly adjust my restitution based on the sins of my fathers.
Limerick on January 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM
And so, Affirmative Action has finally permeated the upper reaches of the American Government – and with it, Barak Obama – the Black President First.
wildweasel on January 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM
I grew up in Oklahoma in the 60s and I know what white racism really looks like. Our parents regularly told us that blacks were as good as whites, but it was repeated so often with such emphasis that there was definitely an edge of hopenchange to it. Many were still struggling to give up age old prejudices.
What we see around us today in white attitudes and actions is not racism.
What remains to be seen is if some communities will finally realize that whitey is really not out to get them – that is the current home of racism today. I think it needs to work both ways before we can really consider ourselves ‘post-racial’.
ElRonaldo on January 20, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Thank you, Allah — I thought I was hearing things when he recited those words. That’s why I noted in another thread that I found the benediction “interesting.”
I’m sorry. I’m white, and I take offense at that inference.
D2Boston on January 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM
I’m sure somebody has already referenced the excerpt from Barry/Ayers’ book, Dreams from my Father, but just in case:
“white man’s greed runs a world in need”
I can’t read through them all….let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on January 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM
In 2009, one place on earth that we do know still has slavery is the Sudan – blacks enslaving blacks.
White slave-owning ended in the US with the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and the end of the Civil War (1865).
Wethal on January 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Once you go Barack, you turn back the clock.
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM
He was doing an Elmer Fudd impwession.
Dave Rywall on January 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Ya, I had to rewind that bit and listen again to make sure I heard what I just heard. Nice way to insult the white folks who just elected a (half) black man to the Kingship of the World.
In response, I’d point out that white folks have been doing right by B Hussein Obama all along, ever since he was abandoned by his black muslim father, and then again by his second black muslim father,…he was then raised by his white mother, then his white grandparents, with white brother & sisters in their white world. We’re now the beneficiaries of those “whites embracing doing what was right.” Lucky us.
…just sayin’…
ornery_independent on January 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM
You all don’t have to do anything but point to the White House as evidence of the falsity of statements like those of Lowery. I’ve tried it. It works.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Itchee Dryback on January 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Here, take my wallet….
Will that be enough for me to “embrace what is right”?
Or is that, Wright?
HornetSting on January 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM
When is it ever going to end??
Herb on January 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM
It’s a miracle he didn’t say “Jewish man’s greed”.
Entelechy on January 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM
I have it on paper that my ancestors were in Ireland, Italy, and Canada until the late 1800′s. Can I get a pass on this crap, please?
crazy_legs on January 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Well isn’t that special. The stain of slavery will never be removed from white America as long as we allow it to enable racist policies such as affirmative action and other considerations which are solely based on skin color. To see a black spiritual leader play the race card at the Inauguration of this countries 1st mixed race President tells me all I need to know about the “mainstream” black community…God dam America indeed!
dmann on January 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Using PC “logic,” Lowery can’t be racist against white hegemons, but WTF is his prob with Asian- and Native-Americans?
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM
The day that time itself comes to an end.
Tav on January 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Just give him all of your money and everything you own. Everything. Then he will stop hectoring you.
james23 on January 20, 2009 at 2:55 PM
It already has. Stopo crying and whining about it and merely say to people like senile old Lowery “You’re wrong.” And you have ready-made evidence of the race-baiters being wrong.
It’s today’s lone bright spot.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 2:56 PM
The Obama campaign and the rhetoric around it underscored the fact that you will never be forgiven for the crime of being born white. Never.
Ironically, old, white baby boomer journalists are some of the main drivers of that mentality.
Django on January 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Get ready folks. You’re going to be hearing a LOT of this.
MikeA on January 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Ya, I had to rewind that bit and listen again to make sure I heard what I just heard. Nice way to insult the white folks who just elected a (half) black man to the Kingship of the World.
In response, I’d point out that white folks have been doing right by B Hussein Obama all along, ever since he was abandoned by his black muslim father, and then again by his second black muslim father,…he was then raised by his white mother, then his white grandparents, with white brother & sisters in their white world. We’re now the beneficiaries of those “whites embracing doing what was right.” Lucky us.
…just sayin’…
ornery_independent on January 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM
You got it. And I’ve never heard one word of kindness or gratitude. Have you?
Instead, our new “pres” referred to his granny as a ‘typical white person’, and the rest of us are “bitter people clinging to our guns and Bibles.”
I don’t expect anyone to thank me, but I do object to being insulted.
Barry is without a doubt a lucky guy and the beneficiary of Affirmative Action on a personal and institutional level.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Good to know.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Bet you Obama claims not to have heard Lowery’s jive benediction, today, and will feign shock!
james23 on January 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
You haven’t met a slave owner because it’s not legal her any more … although half the country fought a war a century and a half ago in order to retain the right to keep it legal. A lot of the attendees at the inauguration today – including Lowery – could remember a time when they were second class citizens because of laws fashioned by white majorities in this country. The laws may codify equality today, but that does not mean that the effects of the previous ones just magically went away. There’s still plenty of inequality in this country today that has its roots in the legalized inequalities of yesteryear. I’m sure you will come up with some justification for how there’s nobody to blame but the black community, without realizing how racist that sentiment sounds.
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
so nice to know to you guys missed me! i think this is proof that MM needs to put me on the front page now…
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 2:59 PM
afterall, blacks always do the right thing
Bevan on January 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM
why is anybody surprised at this?
abcurtis on January 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Hey now, my fellow crackers/honkies/fishbellies, we need to “embrace what is right” like every single black person has in the history of time, you know, like O.J. Simpson, Robert Mugabe, Augustin Bizimana, or 45.6% of inmates in our prisons.
leetpriest on January 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM
You know, I understand why those whose ancestors did not take part in slavery would make such disavowals. However, if we all are beneficiaries of the legacy of good that this country has produced (our Constitution, our capacity for…ahem…change), we are also beneficiaries of the bad part of this country’s legacy, regardless of when and how our ancestors got here. Just sayin’.
That said, the glass is much more than half full.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Look how none of Obama’s and Lowery’s bootlickers are repudiating “red man” and “yella.” Not.A.One. Cowards.
Christien on January 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM
One might as well expect rivers to run backwards.
Hinmahtooyahlatkek on January 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM
I felt that he was still blaming whites
I am sorry but that was the feeling.
I felt like he was really saying was
Its not enought that we have a black president
NO thats not enough
He was saying he wants
RESTITUTION for slavery.
I am sorry thats what i felt.
Maybe we need to do it.
Bankrupt the entire usa so maybe then we can get away from
white GUILT.
jcila on January 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM
No one does this. Remind everyone you meet.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM
That wouldn’t be enough, jcila.
Alana on January 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Does that mean I’m supposed to start smoking crack and go on welfare?
Buddahpundit on January 20, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Wrong. Opportunity is open to everyone. If someone doesn’t make it, today, it is due to themselves, and no one else.
Everything is racist for you and your ilk. Equal opportunity is afforded everyone. Equal outcomes should be assured to no one, as that is how you destroy a society.
Meanwhile, as “racist” as you claim America is, black population flow is exclusively INTO the US, with about 0 blacks leaving the US, even though there are more black countries in the world than white countries. Why is that, moron? Try not to lie in your answer (though you obviously have a problem restricting yourself to the truth).
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Yes, just as racist as it is to blame it all on the whites.
I’m 27. I wasn’t alive for any of the things you discuss, and I’ve never once contributed to any racism in my life.
Besides, you don’t propose a solution here. Dwelling on the past, something people of my generation had no impact on, isn’t helping anything.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 3:04 PM
It has already been given. It was called the Community Reinvestment Act. (Do our present economic woes ring a bell?) Thank Carter and Clinton.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Because we whites owned them….Oh wait…
Tim Burton on January 20, 2009 at 3:05 PM
So, how does affirmative action fit into this inequality and second class citizen thing? Sounds like you should be talking about white folks.
a capella on January 20, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Absolutely no understanding of the influence of initial conditions. I bet you didn’t do so hot in math or science, huh?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
so what’s your response to the fact that open minded Libs call me a Yid? Is it allowed because I’m a Canadian Jew? Or just because I’m a Jew and thus deserve any prejudice leveled against me?
I am not a victim. And I will not use my race as a reason to be one.
mjk on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
It is rather difficult to spot the logic in bad being beneficial. Maybe if we all stand on our heads it will become clearer.
Cheshire Cat on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Name one.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
How offensive and completely stupid. Does this old black geezer understand IRONY? Turn around jackass and look who’s sitting behind you. Geeez.
Andy in Agoura Hills on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
It’s really getting to be time to go John Galt. People need to understand what they take for granted and how their lives would be without it.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM
27? wow there are republicans under the age of 30! who knew?
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Good comment. You leftist nitwits wonder why conservatives can pick you out in a crowd, but your stupidity and Marxism are like a red flad to me. I knew you were a Marxist twit the first time I read one of your comments, and I thank you for proving me right, once again*.
*I swear, it’s a burden.
Jaibones on January 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Income, education …
They’re not codified inequalities, but they exist.
Where, exactly, do you think they originated?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Yeah. That’s called being smart.
Andy in Agoura Hills on January 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
That’s assinine. You want equality of results not equality of opportunity. That’s Marxist. And you’re an idjit.
Andy in Agoura Hills on January 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM
question if everyone around me is racist would i not need to become racist also to survive? this is what is happening in America today. It’s ok to be racist if your black, brown, red, yellow, a woman etc but it is not ok to be a racist if your white. therefore what will end up happening if this is allowed to go on is that whites will by definition for survival will have to become racist.
unseen on January 20, 2009 at 3:11 PM
This guy incensed me. My best friend is an African-American woman. My girlfriend is African. I am a 49-year-old white man who doesn’t see color just character like Rev. King dreamed. But this guy insulted the hell out of me. What a fossil. And yes, I know about institutional racism. I am a historian. And I know about the struggle for racial equality that is ongoing, but this guy is still living in 1965. He gave a terrible prayer.
fleiter on January 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM
I knew a woman fresh from Russia some years ago. She said the first time she went to a grocery store in America she cried.
Take pictures your gonna need them.
lexa on January 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Just using the phrase “initial conditions” doesn’t make your argument “scientific”, moron – though it does help you divert from a point you can’t answer. Why don’t you try again?
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM
What ever happened to “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”?
PS- Yes, Rev. Lowery, I do embrace “the right”.
So there.
A_Nonny_Mouse on January 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM
here she comes, bashing her own people to the delight of racist repugs everywhere!
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
What do you mean?
I need you to clarify that claim, because it seems that you’re stating that anyone who doesn’t get ahead is a victim of “initial conditions”.
Can you provide any math or science to back up that claim.
Itchee Dryback on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
So blacks have the same opportunity (you claim) but don’t (objectively) get the same results. Hmmm … care to extend those remarks with a little bit of an explanation?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Or you could try using the Merriam-Webster search engine and discover that, while the two words obviously have the same root, they do not always have the same connotation.
Or you could forsake using your brain and forget that context exists–assuming that you ever knew that it did–and just take pot shots.
Your choice.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
I guess I’m just one of them dumb white boys because I didn’t know that the name Hussein was an ethnic name for blacks and that it was racist to use. I stupidly thought it was because BO had the same totalitarian leanings as the a-hole Saddam Hussein over in Iraq. Thanks for setting me strait about the name being some sort of racist slur.
jmarcure on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Absolutely no understanding of the influence of initial conditions. I bet you didn’t do so hot in math or science, huh?
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
So sad. Hey, what do you think about women being referred to as ‘Ho’s and bitches?”
Women are 50% of the population, and as a woman I find that disgusting. We’ve been dealing with this sort of thing for a long, long time, and it isn’t racial. And it never seems to end.
Boo friggin’ Woo, buddy.
Cody1991 on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Aside from the total idiocy of your comment, whites gave you Marxism, too. Try again. But try and use something that whites didn’t give you.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM
It’s the scapegoating of whitey that is codified into the system. Affirmative action, hate crime laws, the list goes on and on.
Buddahpundit on January 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I don’t get it, I have been embracing the right almost my whole life. Some people are never satisfied. lol
Tim Pancoast on January 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Yep. That’s what they’re pushing for.
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
“her own people”?
That speaks far more to your racism than hers.
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM
That’s what makes the race bidness profitable and gets most members of the Black Congressional caucus re-elected.
a capella on January 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM
The benediction was highly divisive and inappropriate. The fact that the audience for it laughed at the simplistic ghetto rhymes shows how little prayerlike it was. It was an out-of-date series of racial grievance-mongering petitions that offend the majority of Americans who live and work and play together.
If, as deathtomediahacks claims, these words come from Malcolm X, then its message is no different from Rev. Wright’s. It is a put-down to those of us who do not embrace this message of hate and dare to call it justice.
The poem, which I am guessing was to express inclusiveness, was nothing more than vacuous drivel and hackneyed images.
onlineanalyst on January 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Big S on January 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Fine, he remembers a time when he witnessed such inequity.
So?
Do I harken back to those days and dwell on them? Do I hold the past sins of this nation up ALL THE DAMN TIME to make a point about how I haven’t been able to either “look forward” or grow personaly?
For this man to give such a racist “prayer”, right after a BLACK man was sworn in as President, speaks volumes to who still has a problem with Race today.
It ain’t “whitey”.
catmman on January 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM
uhh ok, how exactly?
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM
It just might take a black dude and a little injection of marxism to get things back on track. Thanks President Obama!
DeathToMediaHacks
That says it all. You are an idiot! LOL!
JAM on January 20, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Today’s educational inequality does not originate in racism of the past–not unless you’re referring to the racism that was part of the Great Society programs and what they did to the black family.
As for income inequality, that can be rectified in two generations–when the educational issues are fixed. And the latter can only be fixed when our families are fixed.
A vicious circle.
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:20 PM
And what does your math and science (and history) say about how far back to go to get to “initial conditions”? Only so far but no further? And what about the half life of said “initial conditions”? Ten years? A generation? A hundred years? A thousand years? Does your formula allow for positive values or only negative ones and is it a set formula or does it vary per convenience?
Tav on January 20, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Yes, and black ones too, but I realize you don’t give them the respect of even acknowledging that.
For the record, shortly before turning 18 I made my first vote, for President Bush.
Esthier on January 20, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Hey Rick! Fuck off, asshole!
GarandFan on January 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM
So, you’re saying that anyone who gets less than a perfect score on a test does so only because they don’t have the same opportunity, or suffer from “intial conditions” (to put your pseudo-scientific argument into it)? Is that your point, that equal opportunity is only evidenced by equal outcome?
That’s as stupid a statement as one can make. Are you only saying it because you suffered from poor initial conditions, or because you’re just stupid?
progressoverpeace on January 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM
If you sift out the BS, this translates to “there’s no explanation for these inequalities, but they exist”…which palookas like Big S will then fraudulently claim provides ‘proof’ of racist influences.
Sowell charted some interesting phenomena (post-States’ War, pre-Civil Rights Era) whereby socio-economically identical black & white demographics followed remarkably similar trajectories until the ‘equality’ of laws under the Civil Rights movement kicked in….from which point there was a downward trend for blacks.
LimeyGeek on January 20, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Noneya on January 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM
You identify Baldilocks by her color/race. We identify her by common beliefs. She’s “my people” too.
theotherKate on January 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Oh. more insipid race crap. Will it never end?
That is so insulting to most Americans whose families have not lived like leeches on the hard work of others and who have been responsible for their own.
Disgusting, but that is what 60 million morons have just done to this nation.
TexasJew on January 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM
So far how back do we go to find those “initial conditions” that justify today’s failures? 50 years? 100 years? 200 years? More?
My ancestors came to the colony of Virginia in the 17th century as indentured servants. They had nothing. Do I get a ready-made excuse to sit around on my ass with my hand out, waiting for the “government” to pay my mortgage and fill my gas tank and provide me with “free” health care and a “dignified” retirement, just because I want those things and think I should have them?
Didn’t think so.
AZCoyote on January 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Don’t you wish you could just run up and put the manacles on that uppity Obama and those millions of Negroes running free in the National Mall right now, Slave Master?
Surely this mental slavery you keep pushing is taking too long, isn’t it?
I bet you’ve got some black guy harvesting your weed garden right now. But let him quit to better himself and you’d call him an Uncle Tom, wouldn’t you, Slaver?
baldilocks on January 20, 2009 at 3:25 PM
I’ve never in my life discriminated against anyone of any color, race, sexual orientation, gender, food preference, or even choice of space ship.
I resent anti-americans telling me (via addressing whites in general) that white needs to embrace right or anything else along those lines. I don’t see AMERICANS (not hyphenated Americans, I hate that crap with a passion now) coming together as one nation until this bullshit rhetoric is dropped and laid to rest.
As a prominent black man said on the news yesterday, “It’s time to STOP DREAMING and get on with reality”.
If the people want to continue to incite bad racial feelings, I can pretty much guarantee that the limit of tolerance to it will be reached rather soon and the result will not be something that any American, hyphenated or not, will want to be witness to.
Spiritk9 on January 20, 2009 at 3:26 PM
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