Lowery Divides Us
The Virginian ^ | 1/21/2009
The Race Business is alive and well. I was at work, watching the markets dive during the installation ceremonies for Obama, so I did not hear Lowery’s speech (I will not honor it with the appellation “benediction”).
I was beginning to be persuaded by people whose thoughts I admire like David Horowitz who said:
...as conservatives who have been through the culture wars -- we need to get past the mixed feelings we will inevitably have as the nation marks its progress in moving away from the racial divisions and divisiveness of the past. These feelings come not from resistance to the change, but from the knowledge that this celebration should have taken place decades ago and that its delay was not least because our opponents saw political advantage in playing the race card against us and making us its slandered targets.
Despite repeated messages from the black spokesmen that told us they would continue to play the race card … after all, if they can’t do their jobs, they will be unemployed; I saw a glimmer of hope...
How disappointing to have that dream shattered during the inauguration by this brutal reminder:
Lowery on ME and every other white man or woman:
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in 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.
This is the Black Leadership way. Their reason for being. Their rice bowl. The “when did you stop beating your wife” moment.
And shook me back to reality.