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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

2008 / Inauguration But Does Yellow Really Want to Be Mellow?

Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM

Just asking. (What you really want to see starts at about 4:30.)

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Im glad he said it, cos the Chinamen really freeek me the fuck out.

Posted by hullo whirled on January 20, 2009 at 1:25 PM

That shit was hilarious. More rhyming sermons from old dudes!

Posted by trizfay on January 20, 2009 at 1:31 PM

And the green man can overcome the mean man, when the gray man won’t have to say ‘Hey, man!’, when the blue man can be a new man, when the orange man can … oh crap.

Posted by Kyle on January 20, 2009 at 1:32 PM

I don't remember a thing that Rick Warren said, but Joseph Lowery's words I will remember for a long time.

Posted by Everybody on January 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM

Yes, calling Asians yellow. THat is memorable.

I guess I can go back to calling blacks 'negroes' then.

Posted by Ballard Man on January 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM

@5: You kind of just did.

Posted by Gloria on January 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM

The wisdom of age. The word "Old" in America is used as a pejorative by so many people. Here we have an example of an Old man that has wisdom, knowledge and strength of character.

"Help us to make choices on the side of Inclusion no exclusion, tolerance not intolerance" Wow now if only many more will embody those words of wisdom and act upon them.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on January 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM

"And let the brown not be flushed down...." was all I could think of

Posted by kurisu on January 20, 2009 at 2:12 PM

So that bit was from a song from the 1950;s, right? Big Bill Broonzy "Black, Brown And White"

I see that some righties and whities (Limbaugh, Malkin etc) are already getting pissed about the last line in the quote...but he was more quoting history, than accusing whites of currently showing prejudice, right?

I'm getting the feeling that those of us who weren't around then might not get the significance of the quote. anyone with any experience with this song please chime in. i'm too young/ignorant to know about it.

Posted by onion on January 20, 2009 at 2:14 PM

this yellow here is pretty happy to be mellow

Posted by mellow yellow on January 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM

Get Johny Horn Johny Horn on the horn. Stat.

Posted by PTBwJHJH on January 20, 2009 at 2:20 PM

One word, kids. Double-dutch. Look it up.

Posted by Andy Niable on January 20, 2009 at 2:56 PM

we needed SOMETHING entertaining to rouse us after the world's worst poetry reading.

Posted by brettholomew on January 20, 2009 at 3:05 PM

I would have to agree with a friend who said, "Yellow is my fellow" would've been a much better line.

Posted by snakes on January 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM

The most telling part of this clip is at :55, when Michelle Obama looks bored, and isn't bowed in prayer.

She's amply demonstrated her contempt for America. Now she has shown the same contempt for God.

She is the scariest First "Lady" since Hillary Clinton. She could have learned a lot from a real lady, Laura Bush.

Posted by Lord Basil on January 20, 2009 at 3:31 PM

This speech was my very favorite of all of the performers and poets to speak at the inauguration.

Also, Dude the Chinamen are not the issue.

Posted by LT on January 20, 2009 at 3:35 PM

@Lord Basil

Classy as always, douche.

Posted by Mike on January 20, 2009 at 6:15 PM

Hey Ballard Man, unless you're 80 years old you probably should have never called black people Negroes ever, less you did it derisively, which would make you a douche.

Just sayin'.

Posted by Krizpie Kreme on January 20, 2009 at 6:47 PM

Hey 17! Agreed: Lord Basil = Douche. The dear woman had been sitting, freezing cold, right up in the shop window (with a convincingly adoring expression on her face) for hours - let the poor thing rest her smile for a moment without accusing her of witchcraft, or whatever's giving you a boner at the moment, will ya, ya idiot.

Posted by k on January 20, 2009 at 10:35 PM

I worked for Chinese people and they were so uptight I quit the job. I am glad some one spoke up about this publicly. Apparently I am not the only one who thought this.
Although I have known Japanese, Koreans, Thailand, Filipinos, the most uptight of the group are Chinese, particularly people from Taiwan. I remember the saying from years ago. "Take the slow boat back to China" Now I know where that saying comes from.

Posted by beenthere on January 21, 2009 at 7:07 AM