Dear runner,

Have you actually read the transcript of
Rev. Lowry's speech?

He did not single out
white people, he actually spoke about black,
red, yellow, brown, and white, asking for
racial harmony.

Here is just a small portion of what he said:

"...With your hands of power and your heart of love,
help us now Lord, to work for that day when nations
shall not lift up sword against nations, when tanks will
be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman
shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree and
none shall be afraid, when justice will roll down like
waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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."

AUDIENCE: AMEN!

(APPLAUSE).

Take Care,

When you consider the fact that only 20 percent of the world's population is white - Rev. Lowery's benediction takes on another perspective altogether. White racism, indeed any racism, has no place in a modern world.

Dear Rainier,

That was exactly the point that Rev. Lowry
was making.

Glad you get it!

KMB,

I dont think we have ever seen USA or the world 'more united'.
I am delighted.

The only one who seems to have a problem is 'you.'
Col Rouge has put it as it is=

*It is a stupid notion for anyone to insist the values of another group of folk is determined by their ethnicity.*

Kenya where his father was born tied a cow down by its four legs and slaughtered it SLOWLY without stunning to party.

I hope the TV shots of that world wide doesnt pass our New President by.
Without compassion for animals 'all' people are nothing .

May God Bless America and its new President as we work to build better understanding world wide.

PS Just as a foot note KMB especially for you.

I can tell you we work with aborioginal people and some times they we tell you - We No wanna work with White people.

On The Gold Coast we had arranged to pay for a 95acrs property with buildings stables restruants and turn it into a aboriginal and main stream Agriculture UNI

Do you know the local agency said on the Gold Coast representing Aborignal people

No thanks not interested we dont want to work with white folk!
So theres a lot of healing to come.
Lets hope todays choice of President turns out to be the right one.
What a big job he has.

Foxy,
“Have you actually (understood) the transcript of Rev. Lowry's (sic) speech?”
The mere fact that Rev. Lowery mentions black, brown, yellow, red and white in his prayer does not imply balance in what he said.
“black will not be asked to get in back” evokes black victim, white oppressor.
“white (must) embrace what is right” evokes black victim and white oppressor who still hasn’t done the right thing.
Rev. Lowery would have been specially selected by Obama to deliver his closing prayer. His words would also have been carefully vetted. As Obama did not criticise Lowery’s choice of words it is reasonable to assume that he endorses them. This assumption is reinforced by Obama’s decades-long association with radical black liberation theologists such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan, relationships which were only (publicly) disavowed when they became a threat to Obama’s presidential candidacy.
If George W. Bush’s proxy had said “Blacks must get off their backs” or “Black man must stop dealing crack, man” there would have been calls for impeachment. Yet these statements would be no different in essence to Lowery’s “white (must) embrace what is right.” The only difference exists in the liberal/progressive mind where “victims” have special dispensation to make such racist statements whereas “oppressors” are damned if they highlight the obvious hypocrisy

Foxy and KMB,

Sorry to say it but I too think that is purposely insulting white people, who in the majority are not racist. It says the black and red can now be uplifted some how and the white can now have a new beginning and embrace what is right as if white hasn’t been doing so, it singles out white and possibly yellow as needing to be mellow… In any sense it is a either a malicious or stupid comment for such an occasion.

At best Lowery is a stupid agitator, at worst a serious racist. I’m sure his intellect is in tact and it wasn’t an innocent mistake, it’s provocative and bloody foolish. Even a bad speech writer would know the potential hostility that can be read into that comment. I am sorry but it is vile after a majority white country just voted in a black, not just vile to whites but to all decent people in general. It is a sad warning for the possible flavour of this groundbreaking presidency that the entry into the job is smeared with such utter carelessness and racist comments.

I wish ALL racists (black brown white and yellow)luck with their issues. I think most white people are very decent.