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what'd you think about

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?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjTUSDONzvY

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.

teh ghey

Rev. Wright.

A fossil frozen in '68. Whatever.

racist

Uh-oh...not that it will matter to the media (or the left) but a casual bit of digging about that loon produced some massive flaws. What a scumbag.

Great way to start an era of tolerance.

I agree with all of the above, but I liked his prayer a lot more than that awful poem.