That’s not my experience. I’m a bit sick of this idea that white people are supposed to just keep shutting up and taking it every time so-called unity is being offered. I voted for Obama and it bothered me. I know others who are not upset that Obama was inaugurated who were bothered by it. It was just completely nasty and out of place.
Spiteful and vindictive would be the words I’d use. Being a civil rights hero doesn’t make it all ok.
It isn’t about white people being victimized it is about being vindictive when people are trying to come together. He didn’t piss on white people he pissed on the shared moment out of spite.
Two summers ago, this really nice retired couple moved in next door to me. They are really wonderful people. At least I thought so. Then the wife starts sending me these “white pride” emails which at first seem only stupid but then get pretty offensive and outright racist. So one day I tell her nicely to please not send me this stuff. Then in the Fall, I had two Obama signs on my lawn and she could see them clearly. But this week I get more crap like the initial post in this thread.
Some folks are just hopeless.
One fact does not negate the other. This is grade school logic. It’s entirely possible for there to be racist inequality and still be white people who embrace what’s right.
Your problem is your strawman assumption that anytime a white person asserts that a black person has made an outrageous claim, or behaved in a racist manner, he is accusing him of repression. Please show me exactly where in the post you quoted anyone complained of being repressed.
Do think Obama would even have been elected without a substantial number of white people “doing right?” I’m white. I voted for him, and I was out there on election day, going door to door to make sure folks got to the polls. The assumption that I do not “do right” based on my color is a vile, racist one, and he had no excuse for suggesting it.
Ironically, Obama chastised this very tendency in his speech on race and addressed the need to move on. I think civil rights veterans of a certain generation are still stuck in a certain kind of mindset, but bear in mind that it’s a mindset that was engendered by bitter reality. If you grew up in a time where you were expected to step in the gutter to let a white person pass on the sidewalk, it’s probably near impossible to let that resentment ever completely fade.
I seriously doubt that Obama personally vetted anything.
I am not familiar with the lyrics of very many blues/jazz tunes either, so I didn’t get the reference.
I assumed that ryhming was some Chicago thing. (Jesse Jackson does it, too.)
That doesn’t bode well.
No such assumption was made. It was just a forced rhyme. Calling him “racist” and "vile’ is ridiculously over the top. He is neither.
It would bode very badly if he DID waste his valuable time vetting every meaningless prayer at every event he attends.
Yeah, fair enough, but at an event like that of such moment, it would have been nice if he could have.
Fair enough. I voted for Obama and not Lowery.
In all fairness the speeches given at his inauguration isn’t ‘every event he attends’.
Bullshit. The words either had meaning or they didn’t. He spoke them. He is responsible for them. What a remarkable coincidence that in the case of every other color, he managed to espouse a positive message. Only with “white” was he reduced to forcing a rhyme that he didn’t mean. Do you suppose he just ran out of time?
Another strawman. I never said he was. I said the *assumption *is. You’re a more careful reader than that, when you want to be.
Still waiting for that claim of being repressed, by the way.
I don’t recall proposing white people shut up every time. I said this is nothing. Al Sharpton’s “diamond merchants and interlopers” comments in Crown Heights were worth getting upset over. (I know he was referring to Jews and not white people in general, but it’s the first counterexample I thought of.) This isn’t, in large part because it was not offered seriously.
And all of this would be over the top. Here’s the chorus from the actual song.
“This little song that I’m singin’ about,
People you know it’s true
If you’re black and gotta work for a living,
This is what they will say to you,
They says, ‘if you was white, should be all right,
If you was brown, stick around,
But as you’s black, hmm brother, get back, get back, get back.’”
I understand this is unclear if you don’t know it’s from a song. I didn’t know the song yesterday but I either read or just guessed he was paraphrasing a song lyric. Either way, Lowery repeatedly called for inclusiveness in his benediction.
And orange…?
Screw orange!
Might not one of the reasons that crack has a more devastating effect on a community that “club drugs” or powder cocaine be the disparity in punishment involved? The War on Drugs ™ has destroyed communities, and been at least partial responsible for creating the violence that it uses to justify itself.
Oh come on. The guy has enough to do without copyediting the text of the sermons at his own inauguration and going over them with an eye to every word that might offend anyone in the audience. Next thing, somebody will propose he keep an eye on the White House tennis court schedule so nobody hogs court three.
Of course there is and I’m pretty sure that old black man knows it. It’s your grade school reaction to something so minor that surprises me. Assuming he made a blanket attack and insult aimed at all white people is an over reaction.
He meant the other whites not you.
After the election my son overheard some folks from his company using racial slurs to describe their disappointment in Obama’s election. He meant them.
Honestly, I can’t see why you would take a few words from an elderly black man so personal. He was praying for equality in a situation that clearly shows we {the human race} has made great strides. He wasn’t making social commentary.
Not true. “When yellow can be mellow” implies that Asians not only need to relax, but they are as yet incapable of doing so.
His inauguration is hardly “every event he attends.”
right, forgot that one.
We could use all the obscure color names from the Crayola box.
When khaki won’t be held backi.
When brass won’t have to kiss ass.
When Aquamarine will be held in esteem
When Chartreuse won’t get no abuse
When Cerulean um… um… dam it.
Who’s turn is it now.