> And that, dear friends, is what some people are opposed to in this. Slavery > is in our past yet whenever a black man or woman gets somewhere its seen as > "from slavery to this level". > I want an American Indian president so we can say "from massacres to this > level" or a Japanese American so we can say "from internment to this level". > Or Irish, Chinese, Jews, etc. > EVERYONE has a past. Every group has a past. Obama is not every black man > and point in fact, he's not even descended from slaves.
I just got back - had a cleaning at noon so I missed the speech and the swearing-in but I managed to hear the invocation on the drive. Then heard the replay of the end of the closing prayer on my way home. Talk about difference! I burst out laughing during the invocation with the thought that if it had been given at a republican's inauguration the screams would be audible from space. Then to hear the adapted lyrics from a 1951 blues song that included a phrase along the lines of, "and we pray for the day when black will not be told to go back, brown can stick around, yellow can be mellow, the red man can get a hand man, and white will do what is right." o_O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285666 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
