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Why So Racial?!

This is 2009! What is Rev Joseph Lowery talking about?! The first African-American was just inaugurated as President of the United States! This kind of prayer reminds me of Jeremiah Wright, preaching to a bygone era.

'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 the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 11:16AM by Registered CommenterLores Rizkalla in | Comments14 Comments

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I apologize that the comments in this section were accidentally deleted. LaDonne, I think that it's much more dishonoring to those who suffered true racial injustice to read such a prayer. So many paid a very real price for the advancements we have today. Merely being born a given ethnicity, color, etc guarantees neither the pain nor the reward of those who battled generations earlier.
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 04:06PM | Registered CommenterLores Rizkalla
Lores, the man who read that prayer did, in fact, experience racial injustice, battled it and survived long enough to be able to stand in that place to speak those words on that day. Many did not survive.

You haven't experienced what he has and you never will. It's why he can say what he said and your criticism of him is hollow.
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 06:50PM | Unregistered CommenterLaDonne
LaDonne, number one: you have no idea what I have experienced. Number two: I wasn't referring to HIS experience, I was referring to yours. Furthermore, I suppose with your reasoning neither one of us can comment on him since neither one of us experienced exactly what he experienced. What ridiculous reasoning!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 10:52AM | Registered CommenterLores Rizkalla
First off, I have an idea of how old you are and I also know of your heritage, coutesy of you radio show. Given that, I know that you were never denied the right to vote, discriminated agianst as a group, nor has there ever been national legislation required to ensure your basic freedoms.

If you personally had experienced anything approaching what Rev. Lowry had, we would be reading about you in history books.

Both of us can comment on what he said, of course. I was simply pointing out that your response to his comments is hollow -- in that you don't seem to have a grasp of the history of it nor a sense of humor.

Rev. Lowry and those with whom he marched and worked and suffered paid a great price for people like you and me. You should be more appreciative and less thin-skinned. But that's just my opinion ;)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 05:59PM | Unregistered CommenterLaDonne
If I may conjecture for a moment, I suspect that Lores accidentally deleted earlier comments because she was upet over the terribly disrespectful manner in which LaDonne spoke to her. I am tempted to ask LaDonne to please treat this very fine lady with the respect she deserves, but then again, I also know not to expect such common courtesy from an angry Leftist.

Onto the main topic, however poorly some Blacks may have been treated here in the United States, it cannot be compared to the barbaric cruelty that is inflicted to this day upon Coptic Christians in Egypt, from whom Lores Rizkallah emanates (Lores, if I am wrong about your heritage, I apologize). islamofascists have zero regard for the value and dignity of human life, murdering anybody they can, who refuses to become moslem.

Many people probably voted for King oBongo precisely because they had hoped that it would finally settle the racial issue, that Blacks, would stop blaming all of their shortcomings on their lives on White people. I knew all along that this would not be the case. It is much easier to blame others for one's failures, than to take personal responsibility for one's life.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 07:26PM | Unregistered CommenterRaymond
Hi Raymond!

Speculation about how previous comments got deleted would be solved by Lores herself. Given what she said, I believe it was accidental. You, of course, are free to speculate until she decides to resolve the matter.

I don't think I need to school you on the nature of respect. It is in fact earned. You seem to have some preconcieved ideas about it that I hope you will explain in the future.

As Lores described on her radio program, she is not a Coptic Christian, but rather her parents were ameniable to Christian missionaries. I also learned from her show that she was born here, and that leads me to believe that, given her age, she has never personally endured anything like what Rev. Lowery has.

You can connect everything to you pet cause, but this one prayer at the inauguration doesn't connect. His prayer rang true and was a gentle nudge at people who think as you do. In that way, it had it's desired effect.

Raymond, read back what you have written. Look at the childish nature of your comment. Is that productive? Does it tend to draw anyone to your side? Is it the best you can do?

You acribe a monolithic view to one group to explain your world view. Perhaps you are mistaken. Perhaps people voted for President Obama because they saw him as a better leader. Perhaps others voted for McCain because they saw him as a person who would bomb the Middle East and make it glass.

Think about it Raymond.
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 07:34PM | Unregistered CommenterLaDoonne
Sorry Raymond, but I just thought about this:

Do you call President Obama "King oBongo" because you think it refers to his African heritage and is funny?

Do you know that Egypt is also in Africa? Do you do that just to poke fun at Sub-Saharan Africans? Do you think Lores thinks it's funny?
Friday, January 30, 2009 at 07:42PM | Unregistered CommenterLaDonne
Given all the 'positive discrimination' roaming the west (which is racist in itself since it treats religious minorities/people with a bit of tan as being 'poor', I think this man should stop living in the past and see the real danger coming his way.

Speaking like this to a whole bunch of people is really out of time and place since those days have rapidly gone by. Eventhough it might be passionate for himself, he has a duty to speak for the people he was hired to speak for; not himself.

He should be more worried about the Social Jihad coming his way unless he wants to convert to islam and keep blaming the 'whites' for all his problems.

Since arabs are caucasian too, it would be just some more whiteboys embracing what is wrong.
Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:15AM | Unregistered CommenterRobert
Liberal fascists like LaDonne consistently project their own faults onto us clear-thinking conservatives. LaDonne childishly resorts to calling me a child, yet it is he who resorts to such childish tactics. What a child.

LaDonne then claims that Lores Rizkalla has no claim of victimhood whatsoever, since it was only her relatives, and not she herself, who may have been terribly mistreated by the islamofascists of her ancestral home in Egypt. Yet LaDonne conveniently fails to mention that there is not one Black person alive in America today who was enslaved in America, and that Jim Crowe laws were made illegal generations ago. The truth is that Blacks should thank their lucky stars for living here in America, as they have it FAR better here than any place on Earth. Whites treat Blacks sooo much better than Blacks treat each other, both here and in Africa. Yet angry Blacks with a chip on their collective shoulders continue to hate Whitey and blame Whitey for all of their shortcomings.

Contrast this with my Jewish people, who three years after the most devastating Holocaust in all of human history, had their own Jewish State. In fact, Jews who had just been rescued from the nazi concentration camps, were exactly some of the very same people who physically took up arms to help Israel declare its Independence. This is precisely why Blacks are antisemitic in so much higher proportions than Americans in general, because they resent Jewish success. It makes it that much more difficult for angry Blacks to blame others for their self-inflicted problems.

As for the legendary John McCain bombing the Middle East into glass, it is either that, or allow the islamofascists to continue to murder Jews, Americans, and any other non-moslem they can get their hands on. How ironic that LaDonne favoris the same islamofascists who continue to enslave his Black people in many parts of the Middle East.
Monday, February 2, 2009 at 09:03AM | Unregistered CommenterRaymond
I never made one reference to Rev Lowry's experience but yours, LaDonne, since YOU were the one making reference to your own experience. I can tell stories all day about what has happened and IS happening to my close family members in Egypt. That is beside the point right now.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 09:49AM | Registered CommenterLores Rizkalla
"I think that it's much more dishonoring to those who suffered true racial injustice to read such a prayer. So many paid a very real price for the advancements we have today."

Lores, that's what you said in your first comment.Your words are about Rev. Lowry. He's the one who said the prayer.

"I wasn't referring to HIS experience, I was referring to yours."

Actually, read back and you will see that you hadn't (nor had I) referred to my experience. You said it was dishonoring to read the prayer. Rev. Lowry read the prayer, not me.

But have it your way, Lores ;)

If I were the blog owner here though, I would see about reigning in that Raymond guy, you know, talk some reason into him. He's off the charts!
Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 03:50PM | Unregistered CommenterLaDonne
Notice how LaDonne the angry liberal is calling for censoring me. How typical of the intolerant, liberal fascists, that they pretend to be for tolerance, when really they are only tolerant toward others who think exactly like them. That is the same type of thinking that is leading some liberals to advocate censoring conservative talk radio. Such intolerance is reserved for places like Cuba, Venezuela, and the islamofascist nations, NOT the United States of America.

As for Lores' family being in such danger in Egypt, I have to wonder if there is some way that her family can be granted asylum here in America. If illegal Mexicans can come here for jobs or free medical care, than certainly Lores' family, who are being terribly persecuted by the islamofascists in Egypt, should be allowed to move here permanently.
Monday, February 9, 2009 at 07:35PM | Unregistered CommenterRaymond
Rant on, Raymond. I was just looking out for Lores' reputation. You know how those wingnut blogs like to point to crazy commenters to make their points.

But if you want Lores to be saddled with your rhetoric, keep it up.

It's entertaining at least.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 09:02PM | Unregistered CommenterLaDonne
Actually, this website was doing just fine, with people making intelligent, thoughtful comments while treating Lores with respect. And than LaDonne came along, and ruined everything. To use a musical analogy, the music of Handel and Mozart was playing beautifully, until Tupac Shakur came and destroyed the sonorous harmony.
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 09:54PM | Unregistered CommenterRaymond

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