While watching the Presidential inauguration I could not believe the racial prayer at the end by the Rev Joseph Lowery. For those of you that missed it here was the end:"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.
What? When black will not be asked to sit in back??????? Yellow will be mellow???? What does that mean? When the red man can get ahead??? White will embrace what is right????? A black man was just elected to the highest office in the country and this was the closing prayer.
And I thought it was a day of celebration! Unbelievable!
That prayer was racism at it's worst. The people that complain about racism the most are the same people keeping it alive.
ReplyDeleteYeah, when I heard that on Tuesday I thought I was hearing things. It was kind of like that awkward feeling at a holiday gathering when an older relative makes an offensive statement in front of the whole family at the table.
ReplyDeleteEveryone shifts in their seats, clears their throats and then someone brings up the fact that the Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I thought exactly what you said, and then felt exactly how Liz just described. the obvious problems with that prayer aside, what the hell does "yellow staing mellow" even mean? "red man getting ahead?"
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