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The Inauguration Speech

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DaddyG1/20/2009 10:54:37 am PST

re: #80 Let’s Roll

“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 yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.”

Sigh. This is going to be a LONG four years.

I heard more than a little ethnic and class warfare today. That was the single most disturbing part of the whole inagural ceremony. Perhaps I’m just defensive being white and male and all but when did
Hope and Change
turn into
Soak and Blame?