Remember the Dilbert cartoon in which Dogbert leads the company's new aerobics program, prefacing his first class with the statement that skeptics say the program will be a failure? The disastrous session that follows prompts Dilbert to remark that the skeptics are right, to which Dogbert responds, "We usually are."
Here at Hill of Hope, we instituted a media blackout on Inauguration Day, eschewing all news coverage of the Roman orgy of obscenely opulent coronation festivities. We admit we were delaying the inevitable. We also venture that, in considering whether Obama's ideals can be the spackle in the cracks of this nation's racial disparity, the skeptics are right.
Obama certainly has the kind of friends (Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright) which cause him to have no need of enemies. As shown by yesterday's prayer by the "Reverend" Joseph Lowery, Obama supporters are well on their way to being the most racially-divisive political cult ever.
Mr. Lowery obviously fancies himself some kind of poet (which is troubling enough in itself), asking the Almighty 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.
Oh, the irony--that the inauguration of the nation's first black president is marred by such inflammatory, blatantly racist sentiment. You really can't get more bigoted and divisive by praying for each race separately, and unequally.
So Mr. Lowery wants a day when blacks will not have to give back. I hope he means that he desires them to retain the freedom and opportunities they have won since the 1960s, achievements which allowed him to embarrass the President in front of the nation yesterday. However, I believe it would be in the best interest of this country, for people of all colors, if the black community did relinquish its appallingly high rate of illegitimate births and incarceration, which are also modern occurrences.
The undeniably racist part is, of course, that Mr. Lowery feels that blacks should "not be asked to give back." Who the f*** does he think he is--demanding special treatment for one group! Notice that he seems to have no problem with whites, "yellows," "browns," or "reds" being asked to give back. In a Christian society, everyone gives back. It's civilized. It's decent. It's human, and Mr. Lowery's prayer sets blacks outside the realm of humanity. Hello, KKK! Affirmative action is an insult wrapped in a handout.
Glenn Beck, CNN escapee and new Fox News commentator, wrote, "Even at the inauguration of a black president, we are being called racist." Obviously Mr. Lowery also feels that progress and unity are beyond the ability of white people, or he would not have prayed that "white will embrace what's right." As if skinheads have been hurling Molotov cocktails at the windows of the Presidential limousine.
The black-on-white racism of Obamabots--sometimes latent, sometimes blatant--is, however, old news. Here's some real news--I am offended. Yes!
The "yellow will be mellow"? Oh, you f***ing did NOT! I have news for you, pal--the yellow have had mellow out the freaking wazoo until now, and we have had it. It's modern heresy to generalize about any race, but Asian Americans are still labeled as agreeable, soft-spoken, and obedient--the "model minority," and we're supposed to welcome this simply because some consider it a positive stereotype?
I looked up mellow on dictionary.com, and, as an adjective, it can apply to fruit, wine, sound, color, light, and soil (soil?!). In terms of people, however mellow is defined as
pleasantly agreeable; free from tension, discord, etc.
or
affably relaxed; easygoing; genial.
Imagine if anyone--much less a speaker at a historic national event--prayed publicly for blacks to be agreeable, affable, easy-going or free from discord. Such speech would rightly be criticized as racist, and the culprit's ignorance and bigotry soundly vilified and condemned. Abolitionists and civil rights activists fought--and sometimes died--so that black people in America would not be required nor asked to be keep free from discord nor remain genial and relaxed.
Joseph Lowery--and I have no doubt that there are plenty like him now emboldened by Obama's ascension--is the worst kind of race-baiting hypocrite, a trafficker in bigotry and strife selling himself as a colorblind uniter.
F*** you, you racist bastard.
How's that for mellow?
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