Inaugural Benediction Prayer?

[Tarheel]

I have purposely been avoiding any kind of exposure to "The Immaculate Inauguration" of The ONE today but someone sent this YouTube video to me and I had to verify it on a couple other websites prior to posting it here for yall to watch (at the risk of being moderated).

I have but two questions:

Am I allowed to be offended by this "prayer"? 
(Because I find it offensive.) 

This racist country did just elect an African-American as president didn't we?
(Well not "we" per se...I didn't vote for him.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zChn5JxdncU&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/20/inaugural-benediction-pray-that-white-will-embrace-what-is-right/

[lifesapplepie]

(Well not "we" per se...I didn't vote for him.)

You didn't vote for him...shocker!!  Thats OK... I didn't either!


I hate to say this, but you better get used to this kind of stuff.

[Buzz Killington]

You just need to embrace what is right.

[Tarheel]

You didn't vote for him...shocker!!  Thats OK... I didn't either!


I hate to say this, but you better get used to this kind of stuff.

I don't drink teh Kool-Aide.

[Tarheel]

You didn't vote for him...shocker!!  Thats OK... I didn't either!


I hate to say this, but you better get used to this kind of stuff.

Yeah.

And the same folks cheering this preacher on were mortified and appalled that Rick Warren was asked to do the Invocation!

[AUTiger1]

Go ahead and be offended, I am.  For everyone (Dems mostly) to scream that race was not a factor (had nothing to do with influencing JC Watts did it?) in this election I seem to hear a lot about it.   To me this was another prime example of a "Neo" supporter throwing up the race card in my face.  It bothers me not that "Neo" is an African-American, what bothers me is the fact that he is another liberal goon.

[Tarheel]

Go ahead and be offended, I am.  For everyone (Dems mostly) to scream that race was not a factor (had nothing to do with influencing JC Watts did it?) in this election I seem to hear a lot about it.   To me this was another prime example of a "Neo" supporter throwing up the race card in my face.  It bothers me not that "Neo" is an African-American, what bothers me is the fact that he is another liberal goon.

It is anecdotal, because I can't find it in print anywhere, but I actually heard an NPR reporter just this morning use the term "racially mixed" in describing "Mr. Obama."  Of course, she did not say "Mr. Obama" she used the more common "President-Elect" for his title.

By the way, when I don't refer to him as "The ONE" (or Neo or Carter 2) I will refer to him as "Mr." Obama.  I refuse to use the title "President".  The MSM rarely if ever used that title for President Bush.

As I've opined before I am in the "Loyal Opposition" now.  Loyal to my nation; opposed to this government leadership.

[AUTiger1]

It is anecdotal, because I can't find it in print anywhere, but I actually heard an NPR reporter just this morning use the term "racially mixed" in describing "Mr. Obama."  Of course, she did not say "Mr. Obama" she used the more common "President-Elect" for his title.

By the way, when I don't refer to him as "The ONE" (or Neo or Carter 2) I will refer to him as "Mr." Obama.  I refuse to use the title "President".  The MSM rarely if ever used that title for President Bush.

As I've opined before I am in the "Loyal Opposition" now.  Loyal to my nation; opposed to this government leadership.

I used that term in fear I might be labeled. 

Does anyone remember this quote and who said it?

"I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration."

I can't wait to say that sometime within the next four years and then have some freaking liberal jump on my case for saying it.  That is going to make my day.

[Tarheel]

I used that term in fear I might be labeled. 

Does anyone remember this quote and who said it?

I can't wait to say that sometime within the next four years and then have some freaking liberal jump on my case for saying it.  That is going to make my day.

Yes.  And I recall her saying it at a screeching decibel level that would make even Helen Keller cringe.

[ggraf71]

Go ahead and be offended, I am.  For everyone (Dems mostly) to scream that race was not a factor (had nothing to do with influencing JC Watts did it?) in this election I seem to hear a lot about it.   To me this was another prime example of a "Neo" supporter throwing up the race card in my face.  It bothers me not that "Neo" is an African-American, what bothers me is the fact that he is another liberal goon.

I agree with you guys. I'm gonna try to express my feelings without sounding racist, so if it comes off as racist, feel free to delete it. Here goes.

I feel that the only ones that are harping on race are the ones some voted into power. I consider myself an american, even though my father was born in Germany and holds dual citizenship there. I do not go around calling myself a "German-American" or a "European-American". I am simply an American. Only when the ones that call themselves hyphenated americans stop and call themselves Americans, can America truly be non racist. We voted a black/chinese/white-American into the white house, yes. He looks black, so they call him black. I have no problem with that. I have a problem with the ones that perpetuate the notion that America is still being racist after voting a mixed race person into the highest office in the land and that America owes them something.

[Tarheel]

I agree with you guys. I'm gonna try to express my feelings without sounding racist, so if it comes off as racist, feel free to delete it. Here goes.

I feel that the only ones that are harping on race are the ones some voted into power. I consider myself an american, even though my father was born in Germany and holds dual citizenship there. I do not go around calling myself a "German-American" or a "European-American". I am simply an American. Only when the ones that call themselves hyphenated americans stop and call themselves Americans, can America truly be non racist. We voted a black/chinese/white-American into the white house, yes. He looks black, so they call him black. I have no problem with that. I have a problem with the ones that perpetuate the notion that America is still being racist after voting a mixed race person into the highest office in the land and that America owes them something.

Let me correct you on one thing...you are thinking, not feeling.  And I do not think that you are being racist at all in your opinion.

President Theodore Roosevelt said the following about "Hyphenated Americans" in 1915 and it's just as timely today:

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

The link:
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trquotes.html

[Thrilla]

Well, it sounds to me that he just wants everyone/every race to be on an equal playing field and get along.  How do you find it offensive?  Have I already succumbed to the brainwashing of The Messiah's administration?  HELP ME!

[Tarheel]

Well, it sounds to me that he just wants everyone/every race to be on an equal playing field and get along.  How do you find it offensive?  Have I already succumbed to the brainwashing of The Messiah's administration?  HELP ME!

Obviously you drank the Kool-Aide, my friend.

Let us parse what the Reverend Lowery said (emphasis is my own):

'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 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.  Say Amen!  Say Amen!

First of all I find the "colored" references offensive.  If a Republican (or Rick Warren) had given this "prayer" he would have been publicly eviscerated.

Second, we (and I use that term very loosely) just elected an "African-American" to the highest office of the land.  Why is the good reverend asking the Good Lord to help us to "work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back"?

There is no excuse for every man not being able to "stick around, get ahead, and embrace what is right" today!

[Thrilla]

Obviously you drank the Kool-Aide, my friend.

Let us parse what the Reverend Lowery said (emphasis is my own):

First of all I find the "colored" references offensive.  If a Republican (or Rick Warren) had given this "prayer" he would have been publicly eviscerated.

Second, we (and I use that term very loosely) just elected an "African-American" to the highest office of the land.  Why is the good reverend asking the Good Lord to help us to "work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back"?

There is no excuse for every man not being able to "stick around, get ahead, and embrace what is right" today!

Damn, I misheard the quote.  I didn't hear the "we ask you to help us work for the day".  I thought it was more along the lines of "we are glad to finally see the day".

Now, in context, that quote seems absolutely idiotic and unapplicable!

[JohnDeere]

This idiot is from Huntsville, ALA-BAMA   

[Buzz Killington]

Nothing to see here...it can't be racist if a white man didn't say it.