That was Joe Lowery at his best
Posted By: Sara on 2009-01-20
In Reply to: For Obama also to bring in that Rev? - black civil rights leader to say something like...
if you lived here you would know this guy is not only a preacher but a real cutup. I think he bought not only seriousness in his closing words but truthfulness. I loved it myself but then I like Joe Lowery.
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I was brought up during the times when blacks were told to sit in the back of buses, when we had sit-ins at the counters at 5&10 cent stores downtown where I lived, where the water fountains were marked with white and colored, bathrooms the same, when I personally saw on television blacks being attacked by dogs, black kids not allowed to go to school with whites- I have been there. I am white, I do have ancestors who were slave owners and think nothing of his speech and yes, whites should embrace what is right. You are true about racism being on both sides, absolutely true but as an older white lady and born and raised in the south, I think his comments were straight on. Why get so offensive when a remark about whites made? I remember my father calling black folks "coloreds" and I would always ask, well what color are they?
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