Three Good Guys And A Bad Guy Post-Racial Moment Of The Day

Who is the "red man" supposed to get ahead of? The black, brown or white? I thought we were all supposed to be equal.

When the Black man embraces "what is right",then the White man will not have to protect himself.There. Fixed that for ya,"Reverend".

Oh,and BTW reverend,you might want to start quoting Bill Cosby. Now there is a black man who knows what's up and down,right from left,hand out vs a hand up.

Kate you are on a roll today.

I confess I watched a bit of it this morning, and when this fellow said his bit "when white will embrace what is right" I thought to myself a thousand years from now they will still be blaming whites for everything. What an ass.

They of course conveniently ignore the fact that Obama, Winfrey, etc. are all part white.

And they ignore the fact that the *overwhelming* majority of whites are good people who do not judge others by the colour of their skin.

Being someone who wants to cut Obama some slack I have to say that this was not good. I am more than a little bothered by it, and BO likely just bought himself some mor eembaressment.

White voters showed they were colour blind, too bad some Obama supporters cant be as well.

This will wear thin very, very quickly.

The campaign was a Beatles concert, with the screaming girls. Well, as we wrap it up, I am reminded of Eleanor Rigby, "wiping the dirt from his hands as he walked from the grave."

That whole inaugural had a funereal feel to it. more like the day after Christmas doldrums.

Is it time to start demanding "equality" for being white?

The guys on the loading docks that I constantly hear me referred to as the "cracker truck driver" are in for a surprise.

Is it time to start demanding "equality" for being white?

The guys on the loading docks that I constantly hear referring to me as the "cracker truck driver" are in for a surprise.

I think you missed a part of it, I remember something about 'when yella can be mella.

They of course conveniently ignore the fact that Obama, Winfrey, etc. are all part white.

TJ, affroooh amuricans are a large part white, just stand them next to a REAL black man

What a load!!

I think he meant: "white will embrace what is Left"???

Apart from his little piece at the end, I still felt that his prayer was more heartfelt than Warren's which I thought sounded forced and artificial even though his presence was only for a photo op anyway to appease the evangelicals.

There is something in the cadence of those words that reminded me of that old Paul Simon song...

"The problem is all inside your head", she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to rationalize the Obama presidency

She said you know that it's my habit to intrude
The left's in power, the shock you're in for will be quite rude
So I'll repeat myself, 'cause you're a rather thick right-wing dude
There must be fifty ways to rationalize the Obama presidency
Fifty ways to rationalize the Obama presidency

You just accept your fate, Kate
Don't make any plans, Stan
You won't need a job, Rob
Obama will set us all free
We'll throw you under the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just wipe your mind clean, Gene
And get yourself free

Did I mention that We're. All. Doomed. ?

Some comments from watching the inauguration.

1. Awesome, inspiring to see so many people. This is a significant day for African Americans and for America. So often accussed and criticized world-wide for being a racist society, America shows that its abiltity to realize the vision of its founders.

2. Rick Warren's opening prayer. As an Evangelical Christian, I was unimpressed. I thought it was wordy, prosaic, and too colloquial for the occassion. I thought that they would have done better to get T.D. Jakes.

3. Aretha Franklin. Awesome. Gotta love the First Lady of Soul. An excellent rendition of the song. Nice hat. Yo Yo Ma was very nice also. A very racially diverse musical quartet, but really, these guys are top notch talent in the world, so who cares.

4. Diane Feinstein. In her opening remarks said something like: "The Foundation of a Democracy is the ability of the people to choose their own leaders." Too bad Mike Ignatieff and the socialist/separatist coalition don't believe that. They keep explaining how if I really understood our parliamentary system I would know that wanting to pick my leader is Un-Canadian, "American-style" democracy. Of course they plan next week to overturn the democratic will of the people at the first opportunity. Not a very good example of a peaceful transition of power, I would say.

5. Obama's Inaugural Address. What a buzz-kill. I was really hoping for something new and exciting, but this was all about how hard things are, and what a crisis we have, and what a mess America and the whole world is in, and how hard we are all going to have to work. We've heard all these phrases before in a dozen speeches. He hardly got any applause from the massive crowd, except at a few points and at the end. They looked stunned. I think the guy just takes himself too seriously and should lighten up, and realize that the election is over and he is no longer on the campaign trail.

While I don't expect Obama to outline a detailed plan for the next 100 days, I hoped to hear something of substance. (Did I mention he said it was going to be a hard road?)

I was disappointed the Obama chose to understate the fight for racial equality and the contribute that black people made to American liberty through their own struggle for civil rights. People laid their lives down, literally, for his chance to stand there taking that oath.

I liked his opening statement that acknowledged America is at war with an international network of terror. That is so close to something George Bush would say, I expect is freaked out a lot of lefties.

Disappointed in his big speech at how much America needs to help people all over the world, that concluded with the promise: "We will leave Iraq to its own people". (Lots of luck folks!)

Disappointed at the silly, fawning comments directed to "Muslims" around the world. These words just sounded either naiive or fatuous. Does he really think that the leaders and mullahs of those totalitarian Muslim nations give a crap about how their own people will one day judge them? That was simply embarrassing. Ok, so he didn't to say "Death to Islam!" but he didn't need to say, "Come over to my house and play Barbies" either.

Rev. Joseph Lowery is simply channeling Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his love message.

Wright is persona non grata now that he has been caught so Obama had to find a new black preacher to send messages.

Perhaps Obama is and or wants to be a colourless or colourblind president

but it is very clear that many of his supporters - and many of them are his longest and closest supporters - see his presidency as a means to get racial reparations. Obama needs to knock this down as quickly as possible otherwise his term as potus will be as rancourous as George wallace's would have been had he become potus albeit for the reverse reason.

"I think he meant: "white will embrace what is Left"???" -- Good one, Rick.

I actually liked Warren's -- I thought he attempted to move things to a higher plane -- a place we do not often go.

The mullahs would say that the people wont judge them, allah will.....probelem with a theocratic government, they are playing to a different crowd, one in another world.

However, practically speaking though, Obama is right. That is how the world ultimately works, sometimes pointing it out will brings attention to it, we will see.

Love your last line Rudy!

Good commentary rudy. Thanks

sorta reminds me of the words of a certain referendum losing Quebec premier in the days when JCrouton was scared senseless

Thanks ben, I found the full quote.

If you go to his web page and look under "Agenda" then look at Civil Rights you'll see what the plans are for rights and equality. As usual the people who love to throw Rev. Martin Luther Kings name around the most know the least about Civil Rights. And care the least I might add.

this guy would be a total liberal ahole, right.

I appreciated your well thought out comments Rudy. One minor quibble, how could anyone expect to hear anything of substance from Obama. I didn't so I'm not disappointed.

As the inaugorasm winds down, it will be fun to watch as the approval ratings of the messiah drop. I believe this week will be the high mark.

for those who haven't yet I urge you to read the column by victor Davis hanson that Kate linked too a few posts prior to this one. It is an assessment of the bush legacy that I believe stand the test of time. Twenty years from now Katrina will be a girls name while the democratic ally Iraq will be regarded as an achievement as great or greater than the democratization of japan and Germany and the saving of western Europe from the communist horde. And it will be almost singularly be because of GWB.

I wish him a peaceful and happy retirement while he and the rest of the world see his opponents criticisms eroded and proven false and self-serving. And I bet he will not care a whit.

tj, a 1000 years from now there will be no white people. demographics, don't ya know.

And explain to me why you thought you would hear anything different coming from whence it came.

I ain't gonna work on Maggies Farm no mo.

owg/tj:

"a 1000 years from now there will be no white people. demographics, don't ya know."

What does it have to do with demographics? That far out, it is conceivable that our skin tone differences will be impossible to discern.

Except for the rabid racists that will inevitably still remain. They will persist by rampant inbreeding.

The Globe & Wail has removed all posted comments and cut off the posting of any new ones. I surmise the Comrade Censors at the Globe & Wail didn't like comments posted by some people about the Rev. Lowery's anti-white racism.

Freedom of Speech - highly selective and iffy at "progressive" newspapers.

Watching and listening to all the gushing, I felt everyone thought that the fairy tale "Camelot" was coming to life.

Wrong fairy tale. The correct one is "The Emperor's New Clothes".

Please, for the love of God, let this be untrue.

Truly unbelievable.

mark, aren't you taking the lord's name in vain...or are you willing to trade the love of god for this story to be untrue?

Rudy

what the hell is an african american

are these people who are less then American??????

here I thought they were ALL just americans

I'm going to be sick to my stomach while I contemplate what I must do, as a white to be right.

Mark,

Nope...quite true. And Sullivan is gushing over it.

Total Fanboi

Things like this will go on slowburn. Its minor, its a mistake, but it appears exclusionary.

And it may have been meant harmlessly. The call and response and rhetoric of the black church is a mystery to others not of the that church.

Anyway, it will be swept aside and if it makes no other appearance then it will be forgotten. It will only take another reference like this though to start to raise suspicions.

Obama is an American president not a black one, I am sure he knows the difference, I just dont know if some of his supporters do.

Talk about being hung up on colour which is racism! If Obama's mother was white, which means he is 50% white, how is it that he is considered to be black? The math does not add up.

Sorry Stephen, but the remarks in the inauguration today do, in fact, confirm that Obama has always been and is still, a black nationalist. He knows this, the question is do his supporters understand this. Don't think so!

Maybe I am a little optimistic but I though his speech emphasised that there is a lot of hard work ahead by all Americans to rise out of these economic and other crises. Sounds like he wasn't promising an easy road with the government just throwing money around, you will have to earn it yourself.

I just hope, there's that word again, that he will make the hard decisions and with the MSM and all the lefties supporting him here and abroad actually solve these major problems as he must for all of our futures.

As we all know the US is in serious deep shit economically and simply can not continue just printing money from thin air.

Alain,

Well this is the point isnt it. Shows that the whole discussion is kind of ridiculous.

He was raised "white", whatever that means. But this all needs to play out. I was hoping that this was the begining of the end of racially based things rather the end of the beginning of these things.

Lori, I will respectfully disagree with you, time will tell. I dont think he is in that camp....he has been accused of not being Black enough in his past (once again whatever that means)

This is an important day, since there were and are those who do disqualify people based on the amount of melanin in someones skin and this certainly shows that that quality is not a barrier. It is and should be about ability, character and values.

Time will tell, and that might be a short time not a long time.

"Sounds like he wasn't promising an easy road with the government just throwing money around, you will have to earn it yourself."

Where was this kind of rhetoric during the campaign? I will answer that for you, it was non-existent, he sold the US electorate a bill of goods.

Before the vote, it was tax cuts for 95% of the population! The 50% who don't pay taxes were going to get a check! Now it is "we can't have our tax cuts for 95% because "you don't raise taxes during a recession" There are going to be a lot of people who were promised $1000 a year for their vote who might get angry when Obama welches.

Tim:

‘Change' means what the listener wants it to mean.

That's why the loony left's expectations for a USA that moves toward a freedom from responsibility will never be met.

Obama himself said this country was not built by the idle (or some such word for slacker), but through hard work.

That, and many invocations of God will make many loony left heads explode.

His rhetoric sounded pretty reasonable to me. Let's see how he'll walk the talk.

You guys are ignoring the legacy of US history and slavery when you talk about being "half white" Being "half white, or even 87.5% white (Octaroon) didn't keep you from being sold as a slave. Octaroons were prized by whorehouses, where they were put to work as slaves.

It is easy to pretend the past never happened. Of course, the other part of it is to increase the numbers and group cohesion among blacks to maximize political power, but whites started it.

Here is the video.

Most of it fine, as far as pious invocations go

It is said in the last minute

I think you see O's face go from a smile to a blank when the white/right line is said...

I still think this was a mistake and it will smoulder. Unlike some here, i like the guy but I know a mistake when I hear one.

We will see what happens with it.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEH37JIgBU&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/

Tim in VT,

Don't forget the Peggy Josephs who may be forced to worry about putting gas in their cars and paying their mortgages. They're victims, I tells ya, victims.

"I think you see O's face go from a smile to a blank when the white/right line is said..."

I hope that is true.

What does "the yellow need to mellow" mean? Don't come into our neighborhoods and buy businesses and work so hard?

I'm sure glad that racism is over.

"Before the vote, it was tax cuts for 95% of the population! The 50% who don't pay taxes were going to get a check! Now it is "we can't have our tax cuts for 95% because "you don't raise taxes during a recession" There are going to be a lot of people who were promised $1000 a year for their vote who might get angry when Obama welches."

Two words: Buyer Beware.