This is unity? post-racial?

Wow. I cannot recall an inauguration treated with such disrespect. Obama can’t choose his supporters, I guess, but it’s going to be hard for him to unify as he promised when he’s backed by persons who clearly have no interest in unifying. They just want their pound of flesh.

American elections are founded on the notion of peaceful and respectful transitions of power from leader to another. Yet here were the typically rabid Bush-haters in the crowd chanting the “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” song (by Steam, how’s that for trivia). All that was missing was the “Left, Right, Left…” chants given to a fouled out player during a college basketball game. Stay classy Democrats.

But as sad as that spectacle was the benediction by Rev. Joseph Lowery was a mixture of insult and embarrassment.

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. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.

I get it, okay. It’s an historic occasion that a black man has been elected president. Nonetheless I take offense at the notion that the country is just a few steps past the racially troubled 60s. Fact be known, the only people who ever made race an issue in this election were the media, who preemptively predicted that it might be a problem for Obama. That never came to pass. So, saying that whites might “embrace what is right…” That’s supposed to be unifying and post-racial?