"We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give 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."
All in all, it was just another brick in the wall.
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I closely watched all of the Inauguration ceremonies today and heard what Lowery said. A disturbing ending to the ceremony for a benediction, IMO.
Much of the remainder of today's ceremony could be interpreted in several ways, but not Lowery's words.
I watched off and on, and for the most part thought it was a nice ceremony except for three things:
1) Aretha Franklin sounded horrible
2) the poem was ridiculous and the author/reader monotonous
3) Lowery made me cringe. I cannot believe he spoke those words during the inauguration. Sad way to end.
//Much of the remainder of today's ceremony could be interpreted in several ways, but not Lowery's words.//
I wonder, how long before Lowery and Co. start the squeaky wheel stuff and really get inappropriate toward the President? If they do, some of them may get thrown under the same bus as Rev. Wright.
//I cannot believe he spoke those words during the inauguration.//
MA, I hate to say it. But I can.
He's very skilled at hate speech lite.
Offensive in the least.
Jungle Mom's word is good: offensive. The crowd apparently thought it was funny. How far have we come, really? Not very, I would say....
JM,
I too am offended. But I am not in a demographic that has a right to be so.
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