"when white will embrace what's right"

nice, racism on the Sift is alive and well, BIG downvote

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^ big downvote indeed, just not where you intended. I think this was the best speech of the inauguration bar none. Obama's speech was a bit disappointing - too many platitudes. I agree with this review:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/20/AR2009012003569.html

I think that it was stupid to bring race into this. Proof that we're not over seeing people for the color of their skin. This is just a petty a cheap way to get a blow in there and perpetuate something that is merely in the mind.

sorry for the downvote, NetRunner, nothing against you. I think you're awesome.

Sean Hannity, who knows Lowery rather well, said he didn't think this was that big a deal.

Take it as a calling card-reminder from the Racial Grievance Indu$try that Obama's election will not be stopping their incessant cries of raci$m for fun and profit.

call me old fashioned, but shouldn't a closing prayer get a
*religion????
damn you siftbot, foiled again...one of these days....

Invocations (religion) cannot be called by rgroom1 because rgroom1 is not privileged - sorry.

I'm white and he is right.

Albinos will never learn.

>> ^rottenseed:
I think that it was stupid to bring race into this. Proof that we're not over seeing people for the color of their skin. This is just a petty a cheap way to get a blow in there and perpetuate something that is merely in the mind.
sorry for the downvote, NetRunner, nothing against you. I think you're awesome.


I can see your point -- to truly end racism, race shouldn't matter.

But I don't think that's really the goal. We should see race, see the differences between our backgrounds, and understand how our differing backgrounds color both our viewpoint and the views of others.

We just shouldn't treat people as if their race makes them scary, deficient, or predictable. We can learn not to fear the unknown, and instead find that there is a pleasant discovery to be made in exploring both the similarity and the differences between us.

We should be happy to see the red man get ahead man.

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^rottenseed:
I think that it was stupid to bring race into this. Proof that we're not over seeing people for the color of their skin. This is just a petty a cheap way to get a blow in there and perpetuate something that is merely in the mind.
sorry for the downvote, NetRunner, nothing against you. I think you're awesome.

I can see your point -- to truly end racism, race shouldn't matter.
But I don't think that's really the goal. We should see race, see the differences between our backgrounds, and understand how our differing backgrounds color both our viewpoint and the views of others.
We just shouldn't treat people as if their race makes them scary, deficient, or predictable. We can learn not to fear the unknown, and instead find that there is a pleasant discovery to be made in exploring both the similarity and the differences between us.
We should be happy to see the red man get ahead man.

Great, celebrate differences. Go to a multicultural fair at your local community park. The fact remains that in order to fulfill a job requirement, you must maintain the culture of the company you work for, no matter what you're doing at home. In this case the the employee is Obama, and the "company" is the United States of America. I don't care if he's praying facing the East every morning or praying at his bedside every night. It's really none of my business. What is my business, is if he can run this country.

Yes to NetRunner's comment.

The opposite of racism is overpolitical correctness, when you completely avoid mentioning a specific trait or condition even when it is a legitimate and unbiased topic. It's acknowledgement, not judgement.

As for "white will embrace what is right", what else was he going to say - "white is outta sight"?

I guess i'd have preferred "where white will be alright", but i don't see racism in his comment.

Racism is hate or oppression prejudicially based upon skin color. It is the inability to see past race. Acknowledgment of differences between races (including constructive criticism) is not racism, that's just racial awareness, which is often a good thing as it promotes understanding, love and justice.

When we consider acknowledgment of racial differences and all forms criticism of others as hateful, we are being idiots who care only for the appearance of propriety and do not actually seek to love and understand those different from us.