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.
am i stupid or is the implication that white people don't embrace what is right?
I think he's just an old school guy who likely believes the civil rights fight is still going on full force like it was in the 60s and 70s (no doubt it's still going on to some extent). The implication is there, to be sure, but I dunno. He's a preacher, looking for that utopian heaven where minorities are truly 'equal' and he was trying to be cute with the rhyming and all.
I've never met a retarded person who wasn't smiling.
“The Knave abideth.” I dare speak not for thee, but this maketh me to be of good comfort; I deem it well that he be out there, the Knave, being of good ease for we sinners.
