The Racist Inaugural Benediction

The benediction of the Obama Inauguration was given by Civil Rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery. I’m not going to look at the whole prayer as I did with Warren because Lowery makes no pretension at being a Evangelical as Warren does. I do however want to note the racist way that Lowery ended the prayer,

“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 back, when brown can stick around — (laughter) — when yellow will be mellow — (laughter) — when the red man can get ahead, man — (laughter) — and when white will embrace what is right.”

Let’s switch this around a little in order to see its racist flavor.

“Lord … we ask you to help us work for that day when white won’t be seen as night … and when black will no longer car-jack.”

Lowery’s prayer plays the victim card for all minorities suggesting that it is the evil white man, who, by not embracing what is right, has been victimizing them.

You people who think that Barack Obama was a post-racial candidate or that we are living in a post-racial culture are in for a rude awakening. I predict that with the Obama administration racial tensions will become more taut then they’ve been in decades.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

2 thoughts on “The Racist Inaugural Benediction”

  1. “Lowery’s prayer plays the victim card for all minorities suggesting that it is the evil white man, who, by not embracing what is right, has been victimizing them.”

    I disagree. Lowery also disparages Asians in suggesting they “mellow”, perhaps in the hope that the asian work ethic reduce. Then again, I am probably reading too much into the moronic poem…

    Cheers,

    Teed

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