Rev. Lowery's Last-Minute Elbow

Professor Flake, Apolarity above just made part of the point I want to make...it's "get back" not "give back."

"Give" completely changes the meaning. It's "get back."

Oooops: JC-1939
[the year when Jews via them 3rd Reicher's of up & coming Nazi Germany & Elsewhere, was being 'Systematically Displaced'.... Yes, in recent History.]

Fact: Did Ye knowth, that The "Sovereign Nation of Israel", is the only nation of nation(s) to have faithfully Taken care of thier own kind, via OPERATION-MOSES, not 'Cast Lead' of Today.?

Specifically i'm talkin bout the 100's thousands of Black Jews of Ethiopian, Sudan & Somolia. It was a proud moment for man kind before the Holyi-No-Man/Womb.

Excerpt: Under a news blackout for security reasons, Operation Moses began on November 18, 1984, and ended six weeks later on January 5, 1985. In that time, almost 8,000 Jews were rescued and brought to Israel.

The Content of Africa must DE-MUSLiM-IZE or cleansed of it's ISM's! Ya Ya Mommy.

att JUDITHCLAIRE1939 et al:

Hello Darling:

Please knowth, as a Israeli-American Raised by Afro-Americans; That We both are 'Free at last, Free atlast.." thanks to Obama, freee atlast.

Sis; i wish i can show YE a drawing , cartoon or caracature of Brother "Obama's Split Color's" radiating out of him reflects his rightious potential back to US as being , not mixed, but ONE wholesome FELLA [& LADY], for better or for worse.

Note: Those of You who voted for Obama because of Color Alone; Then Poo Poo on them!

Shalom, Slaam, Peeace, Paaz, Aahimsa, Zzhingyu & Happy Every Day YO ALL!

Professor Flake must be too young to appreciate our Rev. Lowery. Also, all white folks must look at their "whiteness." I suspect that youth and whiteness was speaking. I attended the March on Washington on Aug. 28th 1963 and worked in the DCPS system for many years. I do not like to believe but still do think that too many white people feel their power is neutral, natural and objective. Now, we must take a closer look at our whiteness and educate ourselves.I think that this is especially true for those who speak in public, on radio and on television.

I can only guess that Ms. Flake is either too young or too ignorant to realize that Rev. Lowrey was parodying, and thus negating, an old segregationist rhyme that was used to taunt minorities and those of other than the "right" faith back in the 1950's and 1960's.

The only thing that would have made the inauguration more perfect (outside of removing Rick Warren and having John Roberts remember the words of the oath) would have been for the new president to point at Cheney and Dubya and say "Arrest those men and hold them for extradition to the Hague."

Dear Nica et al:

Correction:

"...the fact that, by and large, Americans believe in God, and even those who don't believe in God believe in something bigger than themselves..."

- Mitt Romney
(By divine intervention? Mitt Freudiantly slipped and said this around PearHarborDay 2007).

But then again, here's another bomb:

"....It is as if they're [Non-Believers & Atheists] intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They're wrong...."

- Mitt Romney

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Remember: As Apocalyptarian Nationals, not Pre-Apocalyptarian nationals, WE future-bound thinkers knoweth that The "HOLY-NO-MAN/WOMB", is neither a He/Him nor a She/Her but, is an "IT" being "ITSELF" in and of Us ALL! No Mr. Rabbi Moses, No Mr. Rabbi Jesus, No Mr. Imam Muhammad, NO Mr. Swami Vyasa, NOT Guru Mr. Gautama, Not Confusion etc..

Interesting; Everywhere , in ANY Scripture, Sura, Stanza.. that one cometh across therein that wherever Ye seeth the word "HE" as G-D or a "HIM" as G-d or "HIS" referring to "Source-One" then simply plug-in the holy corrected word "IT" everywhere thereto. ie, "IT" Loves Ye.. "IT" "ITSELF" is working Miracles whin Ye .. and Yes, Hallaluya "IT" is Fearless & never can "IT" be a Jealous G-d, in Any Form.

Think of "IT" (a.k.a "G-D", by many Name or visions) as being The G-d of "The Religion of Everything Before the Science of Everything!"

Hence, LIFE, as We Know "IT", is a Miracle in Motion & there is zero 'SIN' to "IT" nor is there a Curseth-Effect to "IT" for being Born via the MAGMA-effect & via the Miraculous ZIRCON-SHAFT in the "OCEANIC MEGAPLUME WOMB" Effect! My Parents (Adam & Eve) are Blessed not Cursed.

PS: All Men & Woman was bor "Pre-Baptized" & "Pre-Blessed" during the incubation of the Holy Cosmic NEBULANIC "DUE-TO-BE" effect, an awareness that We must Apocalyptically Worship, so to speaketh, instead of Pre-Apocalyptically thinking via Judeo-Jews or Judeo-Christs or Judeo-Islams or Judeo-Hindus or Judeo-Buddhists et al! Soo,

EK, UNO.. [#1, aka Source-One] is, after all, not the Loneliest Number. Wherefore: One was never created nor can ever be destroyed, Justly try try to be good. Do not indulge in APATHY (the curse of Man-Unkinds) else ye art pathetic!

Speaking as a brown Jewish woman, I can tell you that unity is no longer whatever triumphant grand white Christian narrative, the grand white Christians choose to impose on the rest of us.

There are "fault lines," Prof. Flake. Perhaps, you've heard of them. If not, you should have sensed their presence in Ms. Alexander's poem, indeed in the President's speech, whose African, African American, Euro-American, Mosaic and NT allusions rang loud as the liberty this country has yet to grant all of its citizens. That would include yours truly, and, most urgently, this land's indegenous peoples, may they not perish from this earth.

Unity. I live in a country, in which anti-Jewish racism is rampant among Christians (generically speaking), regardless of how they are complected. That would be the US, Prof. Prof. to Prof., that would be this nation.

Some years ago, I listened to a Catholic priest speak about anti-Jewish racism. He averred that we'd overcome anti-black bigotry long before "we'd" overcome antisemitism. I watched that inauguration, and I blessed our new President and Rev. Lowery, but looking at my brilliant nine-year-old Jewish daughter, I wondered when and if her time would come. Her time, Prof. When out of a blessed disunity, would her time come?

I really have trouble taking that rhyme as anything more than drawing a humorous *contrast* between these labels and the reality of a very good day, ...one where, it seems, all but the most literal-minded could maybe begin the process of laughing together ...a little... about what's transpired.

Can't just sweep it under the rug and pretend our history didn't happen. I think white folks *can* be a little proud there, *for* doing the right thing, here.

That little bit of levity was about... That day representing an acheivement for the freedom of *all.*

People are not free. much less free to 'do what's right' when they are living in fear of some 'less-than-human' neighbors. I remember the world I was born into. Prejudice means people do wrong, then compound the wrong to push off responsibility for previous wrongs, claiming 'it's just the order of things,' or 'What God demands' or 'It's their fault for being so 'inferior.'

Rev. Warren, for instance, he compares me and my partner to 'beasts.' Is he free to do the right thing as regards us? No, he claims his 'salvation' demands he continue to do wrong.

That my partner and I must *deserve* his ill-treatment and defamation, he 'can't help it.'

That's not 'freedom.' That's something else.

We can all be proud of our country for producing a man like Obama, ...and for being able to recognize such a man, in spite of all the past claims we 'weren't free to.'

I didn't see the dreaded 'Reverse racism' in Lowery's levity, what I saw was we've all taken a big step *to* reverse racism, and we've come a long way.

Apolarity: I could not disagree more with your interpretation. While Dr. Lowery may have been referencing the rhyme, he was certainly putting his own spin on it. In the end I was very disappointed with the benediction compared to President Obama's inspiring speech. The message from Dr. Lowery's benediction is exactly one that the Obama team has rejected. President Obama does not generalize, nor does he stereotype. Obama looks at me like I'm an individual, first and foremost. Dr. Lowery's words sent us back to those "color first" days where racial divisions rule, and individual character matters little.

Instead of calling for a future where "whites will do what is right", let's give thanks for the present in which Americans are looking past race and taking a very big risk on an untested yet remarkable man who inspires us. And let us pray for all Americans to be better people, not just "whites", and let us also pray for all those around the world unfortunate enough to live in countries that do not have the freedoms we enjoy.

Dr. Lowery was referencing an old cynical rhyme by which African-Americans in the era of segregation talked about racial hierarchy:

"If you're white, you're all right;
If you're brown, stick around;
but if you're black, get back!"

In his version, quite contrary to your interpretation, rather than reinforcing racial stereotypes, he subverted them, calling for a future in which we can all beat our tractors into tanks.

Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen!