Excuse Dr. Lowery, but just because I'm white doesn't mean I don't embrace what's right. (VANITY)

[muawiyah]

That’s fine. The Democrats have yet to demonstrate that they have good taste in politicians.

[RaceBannon]

Race, your Christianity knows no bounds

Neither does your behead the infidel faith, along with your bretheren callling for Jews to go to the ovens like they did in Orlando and London and New York last week.

And your racism you showed today: It is clear whose side you are on, and it aint America's.

[muawiyah]

BTW, when it comes to "our food", outside of domesticated pigs, cows, goats and sheep, most of what we eat has an American origin.

The Indians were actually quite high tech for their day and most of the world lagged way behind (regarding development of edible foods).

[muawiyah]

My brethren?

Race, baby, tell us what's bothering you about the Disciples of Christ. I know that the Minister General is a heretic and all that, but are you sure you know what you're talking about?

[ElectricStrawberry]

You’re making lame excuses for racism.

“He’s just old”
“He’s just feeble”

If he was so old and feeble that he thinks it’s still the ‘60s.....he should not have been on the stage.

...but hey...you’ve got your excuses to make....

[muawiyah]

One would suppose you like to put senile old coots on stage to say your prayers for you.

How utterly barbaric.

[cookiedough]

It is midterm week for the high schoolers, and they get to leave school right after they are done taking their exams. It is great. My son was spared the indoctrination — odd for Massachusetts — so I figure someone made a scheduling mistake.

[freema]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168504/posts

Several angry bloggers posted reactions to Lowery’s prayer, including the following:

* Didn’t whites just do that by electing Jesus Christ president?

* Am I allowed to be offended?

* Race card pulled during the inauguration. Wow that didn’t take long.

* It is completely inappropriate to have that in any prayer, much less a prayer at an inauguration that is supposed to be about how “We’re all one.”

* Black … brown … red … yellow … white? I’m stunned. The prayer is so racist and so inappropriate. Is Rev. Lowery just a kinder, gentler Rev. Wright?

* You guys are all spelling it wrong. That’s the problem. I’m sure that if you look at his notes you’ll see that it says “… whites will embrace what is Wright.”

[freema]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168725/posts

This is the Black Leadership way. Their reason for being. Their rice bowl. The “when did you stop beating your wife” moment.

[SJackson]

On a personal level I'm a little sympathetic with muawiyah and might be tempted to cut him some slack. But not where he's functioning in a public capacity. From the little I've seen of it, his statement was worthy of Dr. Wright, and his age irrelevant.

One of the issues that troubled me, though clearly neither McCain nor the GOP, was (is?) Obama's comfort level with undesireables of numerous beliefs. Here's hoping it extends no further than having both a racist and a loose associate of Hamas at his inauguration.

[SJackson]

For the thread. Obama had to know his background.

www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org	Date: 1/21/2009 10:52:36 AM
JOSEPH LOWERY
Born in Huntsville, Alabama in October 1924, Joseph Lowery attended Knoxville College in Tennessee, Wayne State University in Michigan, Payne College and Theological Seminary in Ohio, and the Chicago Ecumenical Institute. After graduating from seminary in 1950, he was ordained as a Methodist minister. From 1952 to 1961, he served as pastor of Warren Street United Methodist Church in Mobile, Alabama. Lowery became heavily involved in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. After Rosa Parks’ famous arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, Lowery helped lead the subsequent Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. In 1957 Lowery and Martin Luther King, Jr. co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), where Lowery would serve as President from 1977 to 1997. In september 1999 Lowery, along with then- NAACP President Benjamin Hooks and future NAACP President Julian Bond, took a trip to the Middle East. They honored Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi with “The Decoration of Martin Luther King.” Lowery also met with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Lebanon. When an American interviewer later asked Lowery, “Do you accept the popular image of the PLO as a bunch of terrorists?” he replied: "Well, that depends on how you define terrorists … I don't mind calling them terrorists. I don't mind because I also call [Israeli Prime Minister Menachem] Begin a terrorist … the PLO is not just a bunch of terrorists." Responding to a subsequent backlash from Jewish members of the civil rights community, Lowery called on Jews to engage in a “less paternalistic relationship” with blacks. “We didn't need the Jewish community, the State Department, or even President [Jimmy] Carter to give us permission” to meet with Arafat and Qadhafi. When reporters asked him, “What do you think motivates U.S. policy on the Mideast?” he replied: “The [Carter] administration is responding to a very strong Jewish lobby.” In the 1980s, Lowery warned that “white racism is gaining respectability again,” and that “there’s a resurgence of racism … at almost every level of life.” A firm believer that the Central Intelligence Agency imported drugs from Central America, Lowery was a formal advisor to the now-defunct Christic Institute, which falsely accused the CIA of conspiring to use drug money from the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras to fund their war against Daniel Ortega's Marxist, Soviet-backed Sandinistas. Lowery himself supported the efforts of the Sandinista dictatorship; he once hosted a reception for that dictatorship's leader, Daniel Ortega, in Atlanta. At the height of Ronald Reagan’s Cold War struggle against Communist infiltration of Central America, Lowery declared that the United States had “become the villain of the Western Hemisphere.” In 1988, when Lowery tried to encourage blacks to frequent black-owned banks, he remarked: “Nobody says the Jews are boycotting when they support their [own] institutions.” In the 1990s Lowery expressed his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, specifically because the latter opposed the use of affirmative action in business and academia. Said Lowery: “I have told [Thomas] I am ashamed of him, because he is becoming to the black community what Benedict Arnold was to the nation he deserted; and what Judas Iscariot was to Jesus: a traitor; and what Brutus was to Caesar: an assassin.” (emphasis in original) Lowery has repeatedly stated that society has a “responsibility … to have affirmative action.” In 1995 Lowery supported Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March (and ten years later he would support Farrakhan's Millions More March). In 1996 Lowery told a press conference, “We have never stopped believing for a moment that there was some government complicity in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” At the same conference, Lowery resurrected his claim that the CIA was selling cocaine in black neighborhoods: “This is a new and worse form of slavery -- chemical warfare in the form of drugs. Its worse than anything Saddam Hussein has done.” At a 2000 banquet of the United Methodist Board of Church and Society in Cleveland, Lowery said the following about America's activities during the Cold War: "You could get away with anything as long as you said you were fighting communism.... We [Americans] demonized the saints and canonized the Devil!... We've sown the seed and now we're reaping the whirlwind." At that same banquet, Lowery claimed that conservatives viewed God as "male, white [and] racist"; that affirmative action was "born in the New Testament, not the Nixon Administration"; that America's criminal-justice system was "almost a replica of the [racist] system of 1909"; and that capital punishment by lethal injection, as practiced in the United States, was something the "Nazis started." In 2001 Lowery impugned the U.S. for having boycotted the World Conference Against Racism (in Durban, South Africa), an anti-Israel hate-fest where Jewish delegates were physically assaulted. Calling the American withdrawal “a shameful cop-out,” Lowery declared that the United States was “not committed to serious efforts to address the issue of racism.” In 2004 Lowery spoke at a United Methodist Board of Church and Society event in Pittsburgh. Lamenting that America's poor were getting poorer at the hands of the rich, he characterized low minimum wages and the absence of socialized medicine in the U.S. as "weapons of mass destruction." He exhorted the United States to beat its missiles into "morsels of bread," and its tanks into tractors. "Don't we have something better to offer the world than swords and missiles and smart bombs on stupid missions?" he asked. "The God I serve loves the motherless child in Baghdad as much as he loves the motherless child in Boston." Proceeding to denounce America's War on Terror, Lowery asserted that the United States, by killing (and thereby outraging) Muslims, was doing "more to help [Osama] bin Laden in his demagoguery than anything I know of." Lowery also likened President Bush to the segregationist George Wallace. In February 2005, Lowery teamed up with Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, Cornel West, columnist Julianne Malveaux, Michael Eric Dyson, and Donna Brazile to draft a "Covenant with Black America." In May 2005 Lowery signed a National Council of Churches petition opposing the “nuclear option” in the name of God. In August 2005, Lowery threw his support behind the anti-war efforts of Cindy Sheehan. "I think that God has worked through this mother … God is speaking to us through this movement by the mothers," he said. Added Lowery: "Fifty million people in this country with no health insurance. That's a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Minimum wage is a Weapon of Mass Destruction." In 2006 Lowery again joined Sheehan's anti-war demonstrators outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch, opining that Iraqi mothers viewed U.S. troops as "terrorists." In February 2006 Lowery gave a eulogy at the Atlanta memorial service for Coretta Scott King, widow of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.  Among Lowery's remarks were these: "[Coretta Scott King] deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction over there. But Coretta knew, and we know, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!" (Notably, President George W. Bush, whose war policies Lowery most strongly opposed, was in attendance at the service.) In 2008 Lowery was a member of then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee. After Obama's electoral victory in November 2008, the president-elect picked Lowery to deliver the benediction at Obama's January 20, 2009 inauguration. In that benediction, Lowery said: "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." During his long career as a public figure, Lowery has received numerous honors from the civil rights establishment. In 1997 he was given an NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award for being the "dean of the civil rights movement." He also has received a Martin Luther King, Jr. Center Peace Award and the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award (in 2004). In 2008 Lowery received the Robert O. Cooper Peace and Justice Award from the Human Rights Center at Southern Methodist University. When accepting this award, Lowery asserted that the Bush administration worshipped "the god of war, and the god of the rich and powerful." He also defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the controversial former pastor of Barack Obama. "What's wrong with Jeremiah Wright's preaching?" Lowery wondered. "Prophetic preaching has been around in the black church for years. That's all I do. The only reason why no one says anything about me is because I don't have a member who is a presidential candidate." Portions of this profile are adapted from the article "Obama's Other Pastor Problem," written by Mark D. Tooley and published by FrontPageMag.com on January 2, 2008.

 

[ElectricStrawberry]

If one actually knew me before saying stupid things, one would know I am a non-thiest and don’t give a @%&@%@*%^ about “prayers”......but keep going...do tell about who I would like to put on stage to say the prayers I don’t care about...

What he said simply puts racial divides that have been coming down for 50 years back in place, keeps black people blaming someone else for their problems, and puts that blame on Whitey....instead of seeing interracial racial progess since he started his activism and speaking accordingly to the immense progress that has been made....it simply ignores reality...and simply does not belong “today”....40 years ago yes, 20 years ago maybe.....but not yesterday...old, senile, and feeble or not.

Awaiting further nonsense about what you think I think....

[muawiyah]

A rhetorical "you", not really "you" "you".

Remember, whether you are a theist, a non-theist, or just a BS artist, it isn't always about "you" ~ sometimes it's about "me" ~ like when I'm writing a post ~ think of it ~ "ME ME ME ME ME" ~ not "YOU YOU YOU".

The rest of your point is irrelevant so relax. Go back to smacking down octogenarians at will. Frankly, I don't care, but if I should come across your wounded body laying there on the sidewalk after being robbed and beaten, I'll just step on by.

Is that OK?

I thought so!

[ElectricStrawberry]

Strawmen abound!!!

There are...what....tens million American “octogenarians” I do not have a problem with because they didn’t happen to give that little “prayer”, if you can even call it that, the racist “prayer” you are making lame excuses for........yet, because I have a problem with ONE of them....that means I have a problem with ALL, eh?

Got logic??

Hint to the feeble-minded octogenarian.....I don’t care how old you are if you are on the national spotlight giving a national speech watched by hundreds of millions and spewing your hatreds stemming from 50 years of hating and blaming everything on Whitey.......you are in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong year...or should be saying something other than your deep -seeded hatreds.

Gee.....when I comment directly to someone, YOU means...YOU. When I comment to a group of people, YOU means, the collective YOU. How silly of me to miss the mouse in my pocket you were talking to.

Apparently, when you comment directly to someone, someone invisible person is also there such that all insults are meant for the mouse in the pocket invisible being.....must be that feeble senile octogenarian dementia....setting in on a pentagenarian.

Such a great person you must be that you would walk over a wounded American......cruel....cold-blooded.....heartless....makes you a big man.

“See that Martha.....I just stepped right over that robbed and wounded infantry veteran.....how great am I?”

Never learned that one at the Benning School for Boys when I was there...

What the next lame step in the aging retiree handbook...direct threats?

[muawiyah]

Yeah, Strawberry. Just because Democrats misuse a senile old man is no reason for you to misuse him.

[muawiyah]

BTW, Strawberry, I too am more than familiar with Benning.

Sorry you didn't learn anything there.

[ElectricStrawberry]

OK.....in your uber-sensitive Absurdistan, “pointing out someone’s entrenched racism and that that person should not be speaking and furthering racial divides at an internationally watched momentous occassion”....equals....”misuse”.

You’re retired.....go buy a dictionary.

Out.

[muawiyah]

Pointing out "crystalized memory" in someone 88 years old is hardly a new discovery, nor all that profound either.

It is shameful to misuse the elderly.

Obama misused an old man. Obama is shameful. Your attempt to misdirect our attention from Obama's shamefulness to the "crystalized memory" of the 88 year old demonstrates that you are an Obama supporter.