Was it Appropriate?

I saw a bit of the inauguration today (no normal person should be able to sit through all of that nonsense), and was taken aback at the official benediction made by civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery. In the course of contrasting the past and future of the myriad American racial groups in the country, he said, "...And white will embrace what is right."

He's implying that whites have never done the "right" thing in the past; that they should in future.

This wholly racist remark is not appropriate in any setting, other than perhaps a black church where pretty much anything can be and is said about whites; however, this was a formal part of the inauguration of the 43rd President of the United States, the first black elected to that office. Does this set the tone for racial developments in the future? Is it an indication that blacks have payback in mind?

At the least, Lowery is a racist. At the worst, he is an insider to the President's office, and is therefore speaking for his administration. But this is made all the worse by it being an official part of our historic inauguration.

And I object.