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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (288592)	1/21/2009 1:41:34 AM
From: KLP	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793931

Rev Lowry is the ONLY one that should be cut some slack....or others near his age or older, IMO They are the ones that went through the pre 1960 years. But all the rest of the people no matter what color, race, creed, etc. have no business bringing up race. We have spent decades trying to not pay attention to race as a divider. But some politicians continually bring it up, because it seems to bring votes for them.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (288592)	1/21/2009 2:00:56 AM
From: Alan Smithee	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793931

Cut Rev. Lowrey some slack. He's 87 years old, and is speaking in another idiom than that of modern politics. It was a riff from the Civil Rights Movement. I took some offense at first, but I'm willing to cut him slack. This is what Ann Althouse had to say: I missed the benediction during the live-blog, so let me video-blog it now: 1:00: The first thing I notice is that this man is very old. I see that he was born in 1921, and he's been through a lot. I see him as representing a long history and feel inclined to give him the maximum latitude to express whatever it is he feels in his heart. 3:08: "Help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate, on the side of inclusion, not exclusion, tolerance, not intolerance. And as we leave this mountaintop, help us to hold onto the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family." 4:40: Here's the black/get back/brown/stick around/yellow/mellow part of the prayer that I heard Rush Limbaugh riffing about. Rush didn't like the airing of old grievances when obviously black people are not being held back today and so forth, but I'd say, this was a light-hearted reference to the wrongs of the past, by a man who could have fulminated about the long civil rights struggle, but chose instead to speak almost entirely of love and unity. Really, I think it's mean-spirited to complain about anything here. It was done very well. The Caucus live-blogged the media reaction: Juan Williams, a Fox News contributor [said] “He is the real deal. There are other people who might say that they were there with Dr. King, and suffered the indignities, but Joe Lowery really did... There are some times in your life that you just think, ‘What a country. How can that be? I never thought that would happen.’ But there it was, and I just thank God that Joe Lowery was able, in that moment, to talk about the power of the silent tears.”

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (288592)	1/21/2009 8:39:03 AM
From: DMaA	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793931

If he's so old he can't be accountable for what he says then it was cruel to put him up there. Lowrey some slack. He's 87 years old,