With a curtsey to Dan at Protein Wisdom, this was the Reverend Lowery's inaugural benediction:

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man and white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say amen.

Now, before you get all up in my business, let me give you some Jonah Goldberg:

For instance, you will not soon see a German chancellor of Turkish descent. Nor will a child of North African immigrants soon take the reins of power in France. It will be a long time before a Pakistani or Indian last name appears on the mailbox at 10 Downing St. And yet these countries bubble over with haughty finger-waggers eager to lecture backward and provincial America about race and tolerance. Why not enjoy rubbing Barack Obama in their faces? .... The media understandably, if tediously, focus on how Obama’s presidency is a deathblow to the legacy of official discrimination and racism. True enough. But the fact that a black man can become president of the United States may also be transgressive to all sorts of more relevant racial orthodoxies on the left and in the black community.

But after that, having run past a memorial to the Freedom Riders on Wednesday night, and running past Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church on a regular basis, I got your post-racial right here:

The video is long, good, funny, and definitely not for the faint of heart. If I didn't love the guy so much, I might actually have been cheesed at him for equating all southerners with sister-humping banjo players.

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From the site:

The term liberal is one of the many words in the English language whose meaning has been utterly corrupted. It now means something entirely different to its original historical and philosophical meaning. Funnily enough, this has generally been the fault of those on the right who have wrongly used the word to attack those on the left for being soft or 'progressive'.

In many respects this is a little like calling a cat a dog. To be a liberal basically means you believe in individual freedom. And that you accept the responsibilities that this entails. As is clear, this outlook is worlds apart from the collectivist ideologies of those on the left.

Via the feline enumerator at Counting Cats in Zanzibar.

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