Benediction Prayer Calls For Whites To Embrace What Is Right

The Reverend Joseph Lowery gave the Benediction prayer at Barack Obama’a Inauguration today, and he called for whites to “embrace what is right.” Toward the end of his long prayer Reverend Lowery asks the, “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’..”