Inaugural benediction: Pray that “white will embrace what is right”

[Againsheila]

You presume everyone is white who posts here?

Since I'm white, I guess, I Presume most of the people I'm talking to here are white, unless they come right out and say they are some other race, how would I know?

 

[jreeves]

We elected a bi-racial President. He is half-white, half black. I don't think the country will get bogged down on it.

I expect Obama's political enemies to take every opportunity to attack him and question him.

Too bad, the attacks focus on his race.

There will always be some idiots in a certain race who will focus on the race of others(from all the different races). But I don't remember anyone here attacking Obama due to his race? Maybe I am wrong can you remind me?

 

[dilloduck]

Even so, why censor people?

Because they can be incredibly stupid and ruin everything you've tried to set up.

 

[Ravi]

Because they can be incredibly stupid and ruin everything you've tried to set up.

Censoring them doesn't keep that from happening.

 

[AllieBaba]

We elected a bi-racial President. He is half-white, half black. I don't think the country will get bogged down on it.

I expect Obama's political enemies to take every opportunity to attack him and question him.

Too bad, the attacks focus on his race.

Really? What attacks focus on his race? Link please. The only one I see (repeatedly) drawing attention to race here is you.

Well, and William Joyce and 52nd.....but those two sort of cancel each other out.

 

[elvis]

You're going to judge the white race using a few posters as an example ?
Fuck you-----that's the very thing blacks and every other race hates.

we can't help it. we live in the US of KKKA

 

[Againsheila]

i always presume it's a 4 x 400m relay.

Charlie Brass expresses a lot of hatred towards whites but I don't know if he's black or just someone trying to cause trouble.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Just curious, do you think that Obama's staff reviewed the speaker's comments in advance? If so, then the contraversial comments should have never been uttered. Can we agree on that?

You're asking me if Obama's staff screened everyone's statements ahead of time?

I have no idea.

I don't agree that the Reverend's statement should have been censored by the Obama administration because some people are overly sensitive to any percieved insult as white people.


Your post does seem to speak to a discomfort some white people have by the Obama Presidency. Some whites presume there will be some kind of racial payback for past injustices. IMO the contrary is true.

 

[jreeves]

I don't think they did. They interviewed the poet on NPR a few days ago and she claimed no one pre-approved her poem.

Do you think it would've been a good idea to review it beforehand?

 

[Againsheila]

No one expects perfection. No one is burning the town down. The comment in the benediction just got a discussion going about racism here. There's no crisis but you didn't really expect the fact that we elected a black president to go unnoticed did you ? I hope to God the country doesn't get bogged down in it. There are too many other important fish to fry.

I think it's pretty clear we are already bogged down in it. How many other inaugurations do you know of where schools required students to watch?

 

[Sky Dancer]

Since I'm white, I guess, I Presume most of the people I'm talking to here are white, unless they come right out and say they are some other race, how would I know?

Why do you presume most people who post on this forum are white?

 

[AllieBaba]

I presume Jalu is the wolf boy from "Jungle Book".

Oh, wait..Jalu was the talking bear who wore a grass skirt and danced with the monkeys....

 

[dilloduck]

I think it's pretty clear we are already bogged down in it. How many other inaugurations do you know of where schools required students to watch?

I had to watch Kennedy's so I don't know.

 

[Sky Dancer]

I presume Jalu is the wolf boy from "Jungle Book".

Oh, wait..Jalu was the talking bear who wore a grass skirt and danced with the monkeys....

Are you presuming my race based on my posting hat and your free association to cartoon movies?

 

[jreeves]

You're asking me if Obama's staff screened everyone's statements ahead of time?

I have no idea.

I don't agree that the Reverend's statement should have been censored by the Obama administration because some people are overly sensitive to any percieved insult as white people.


Your post does seem to speak to a discomfort some white people have by the Obama Presidency. Some whites presume there will be some kind of racial payback for past injustices. IMO the contrary is true.

It's not overly sensitive to not want yourself stereotyped as a member of a race that isn't embracing what is right.

Obama's staff should've been aware of all the proceedings, due to the fact that many Americans have started to develop a picture of what an Obama Presidency will look like from the Inaugrual Ceremonies.

 

[AllieBaba]

You're asking me if Obama's staff screened everyone's statements ahead of time?

I have no idea.

I don't agree that the Reverend's statement should have been censored by the Obama administration because some people are overly sensitive to any percieved insult as white people.


Your post does seem to speak to a discomfort some white people have by the Obama Presidency. Some whites presume there will be some kind of racial payback for past injustices. IMO the contrary is true.

Tell that to the White House staffers who just said bye-bye to any raises.....

 

[jillian]

Tell that to the White House staffers who just said bye-bye to any raises.....

And if the white house staffers got raises, you wingnuts would be screaming at the top of your lungs about how they shouldn't be getting raises when millions of people are losing their jobs.

 

[del]

I think it's pretty clear we are already bogged down in it. How many other inaugurations do you know of where schools required students to watch?

i remember watching jfk's inauguration.

it's an historic event no matter who's elected

 

[Anguille]

While this offends you, there is alot of truth in that statement, as we all full well know. Maybe thats WHY it offends you so much.

Who are you talking to? Me or Allie Bumpkin?


Lol!! you are a gas!

 

[rcajun90]

You're asking me if Obama's staff screened everyone's statements ahead of time?

I have no idea.

I don't agree that the Reverend's statement should have been censored by the Obama administration because some people are overly sensitive to any percieved insult as white people.


Your post does seem to speak to a discomfort some white people have by the Obama Presidency. Some whites presume there will be some kind of racial payback for past injustices. IMO the contrary is true.

Even if Obama's staff screened his speech which I'm sure they did. I sure would have. You never know what is going to come out of a persons mouth.

Why are we shocked by this? Obamas old pastor Wright didn't mix words. I'm waiting for Obama to say something insulting to white people. He ran with a crowd that had no problem with this so I can only assume he has said such things himself. It is socially acceptable to insult white people in this culture. Turn on the TV and the idiot on the show or movie is always white.

Obama is a smart man and he hasn't messed up yet but now he is living in a fish bowl. We shall see.