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He's the president, Aliska. He is supposed to make a verbal and public expression of acknowledgment to the country he represents. Something simple would have been gracious. After all, he makes public statements of acknowledgment for other religious holidays, right? Why not Easter? It's a serious 'diss' to Christians. And an Easter Egg roll is not what 'Easter' is about. That's a fun tradition, but does not include 'Christ' in any way. A simple 'Happy Easter' would have been a nice Christian thing to do.

I thought he did say something simple like you said but can't find a source. I agree with you about an Easter Egg roll; it's not what Easter is about but he has continued the tradition.

If they said mean things on Easter in that church and I find a neutral, solid source or any public Easter greetings, I'll tack it onto this thread. If it happened as one poster said, I seriously doubt any mainstream would include it.

No matter what he does or doesn't do, somebody isn't going to like it. Often I'm that somebody who doesn't like it. But the title said he ignored Easter, and he didn't. There are weightier things I don't like right now.

OK, two sources I'd accept appeared without doing any homework, the Wash Post (sourced to bloggers, well where else was it reported in the alphabet soup media? in full) and a clip of what I guess was supposed to be a sermon. The pastor looked dignified and wasn't all cranked up.

The clip I thought I heard or read quotes from would have been the prayer breakfast, no national greeting as such. No blessing the crowds. No shouting from the WH rooftops.

Now the sermon was obviously selectively edited, but it was clearly about racism still existing mentioned Rush twice and the KKK twice, FOX news, and elaborated some.

So the sermon was a bit inappropriate for Easter, bigoted. If it's still such an issue, talk about it another venue if it makes them feel better, but not in church. The music was rather nice the bit I heart in the YT video. The clip was courtesy of a radio station on another thread.

As far as any of it goes, there is no law (other than the oath of office and perhaps some I'm not aware of) that says a president has to do anything about greeting the various religious factions on their special holidays, just a nice touch to do so, so long as one isn't favored publicly over the others.

Do I need to eat "Jim Crow" now?