AP Describes Black Minister’s Mockery of Whites As Not Right As ‘Note of Racial Caution’

The Associated Press noticed liberal Rev. Joseph Lowery’s prayer raised eyebrows {snip}. That divisive note drew this headline: “Lowery gives sole inaugural note of racial caution.” The entire dispatch was brief:

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After the first black president had been sworn in, Rev. Joseph Lowery ended his benediction with a rhyme familiar to black churchgoers:

“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 . . .”

There was laughter from the enormous crowd. {snip}

“When yellow will be mellow, 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.”