*What is so unbelievable is that he'd ok a racist jab on such a momentous occasion... *

Once again, I think you are overanalysing this. I certainly did
not see it as a racist remark. I'd say he had to find a word
that rhymed with white and the word right came to mind.

Why should Obama vet and agree with every word that others
speak? He is a tolerant fellow after all.

Nobody is saying that he is 100% perfect, in fact he himself
admits that he will make mistakes. The good news is that he
is a frigging lot brighter then the dummie whom he has replaced
and I would say that is great news for everyone!

My initial reaction to the wording was strong disapointment.

That was in part influenced by the wording of the opening post of this thread. I decided to try and put some context around the words used by Lowery.

Rev Lowery has lived through the times when the white majority definately did not do right. Times when the black would have to get to the back (or go elsewhere). He has spent most of his life campainging for the day when blacks would have the same opportunities as whites.

The wording he used is based around a song that's been important to the civil rights movement for a long time and he has reportedly used those words often in public addresses. From what I can see Rev Lowery has been a key figure in the civil rights movement for a long time. His involvment would appear to have a high level of symbolic importance to those who have fought a very real campaign to try and get equal rights.

I hope the words he used belong in the past, I heartened by those I see who have taken Obama's election as a sign that race no longer need hold them back.

I wish that Lowery had changed his words for the day, that his words had been thanks that the day had come rather than an old battle cry but I can also cut him some slack given how much he has seen of the times when white has not done right.

Hopefully that closed a chapter in American history. It's time for all to move on from the racial beliefs of the past.

R0bert

Rob...no amount of history or personal anecdote will redeem Lowery's RACIST comment about whites embracing RIGHT.

The attributes attached to all other racial groups were either neutral or non accusative. His connection of 'right' with 'white' was racist in the extreme.. and just shows that those yelling loudest about 'You pack of racists' usually are just as racist themselves ...or.. one might call them 'cupboard' racists just waiting for the altered power structure which will allow them to 'come out'.

If he had said that in Australia.. he would be up before the HREOC before you could say 'Sambo'.

*His connection of 'right' with 'white' was racist in the extreme..*

Ah, poor BD, you sensitive little petal you :)

David is all bothered by Lowery (a fellow christain's comment) against a group that David happens to belong to but was unwilling to rebuke other christains who made false accusations against posters on OLO by accusing some of being paedophiles.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2360#52565

Enough said.

R0bert

Yabby :) Sensitive Petal ? ...... me ?

Wellll...err.. yeah.. of course I'm sensitive to blatant racism against white people... (or any race) and especially sensitive about it when it is in the CONTEXT of a Presidential inauguration where we are singled out for 'special' verbal treatment of a morally derogatory nature, where the values attached to the other 'races' were either neutral or positive. And this... as the WHOLE WORLD is watching!

Just IMAGINE if he had said something like "Whites stay mighty, blacks embrace their slavery"

Robert.. ur whining.....