How NOT To 'Mellow' The 'Yellow'

During the inauguration broadcast this morning, I didn't to get hear The Rev. Joseph Lowery's benediction very closely because I was preparing lunch at the time. Below is an annotated excerpt from the benediction. Keep in mind that each of The Rev. Lowery's requests look forward to "that day" when God will someday help to bring each of these things to fruition.

"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, …"

Help me out here. Are African-Americans still required to sit in the back?

"... when brown can stick around …"

Is he referring to illegal immigrants from Mexico?

"... when the red man can get ahead, man; …"

Native Americans are being oppressed? Where? Last I heard, they've got their own Nation, carte blanche on casinos and cigarettes, and they don't pay any effing taxes!

"… when yellow will be mellow …"

Oh. My. GAWD!!!!! If The Rev. Lowery wants "yellow" to someday be "mellow," he needs to shut his racist pie-hole. As a "yellow" myself, his rhetoric is doing nothing to mellow me out.

"… and when white will embrace what is right. …"

WTF?! What does he think this is, Montgomery, Alabama in 1955? Does The Rev. Lowery even know that Martin Luther King and President Abraham Lincoln were both REPUBLICANS?!

"That all those who do justice and love mercy, say Amen. Say Amen"

His words belie any coherent comprehension of the terms "justice" and "love" and "mercy," let alone "Amen." Whose idea was it to give this guy a microphone? Did The Office Of The President Elect get a transcript of this "prayer" before it was delivered? So much for the unity and oneness that Obama called for in his inaugural address.

End of rant (for now).