What a sharp-tongued Joe Lowery said over the weekend
Updated with new video at 2:55 p.m.: We told you last night about the radio ads put out by an anti-Amendment One group, declaring that Tuesday’s ballot issue on charter schools was an effort to recreate an educational system that separates black and white students.
Several of the 60-second spots featured the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the 91-year-old civil rights figure. “Don’t let them resegregate our schools,” Lowery says in the ads.
As it turns out, the sharp-tongued Lowery was already an Internet topic on Wednesday – but not for dipping into the charter school debate. Rather, it was for comments made over the weekend in Monroe County, as part of a Southern Christian Leadership Conference trek across the state to encourage support for President Barack Obama.
Former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young was there, too. But it was Lowery — the same fellow who gave the benediction at Obama’s 2009 inauguration — who raised eyebrows. Lowery says he’s being pilloried for a joke about white folk that he’s told hundreds of times from the stump — which the reporter apparently didn’t recognize for its humor.
Here’s the report from Diane Glidewell and the Monroe County Reporter, the local weekly:
Lowery said Obama lost Georgia by 200,000 votes in 2008 while 390,000 black folks in Georgia did not vote.
“I don’t know what kind of a n—– wouldn’t vote with a black man running,” said Lowery. “All that he did with the stimulus was genius. Nobody intelligent would risk this country with Romney.”
Lowery praised Obama’s commitment to the poor and said politicians should quit saying ‘middle class’ and go ahead and say ‘poor.’ Then he urged individuals to look at their own character and conduct.
“We’ve turned our backs on the faith,” said Lowery. “America is going to hell in a hand basket. We need to straighten up so God can use us.”
Lowery said that when he was a young militant, he used to say all white folks were going to hell. Then he mellowed and just said most of them were. Now, he said, he is back to where he was.
“I’m frightened by the level of hatred and bitterness coming out in this election,” said Lowery.
Forsyth Mayor John Howard, a member of St. James who opened Saturday’s program, said he was “pretty shocked” by Lowery’s comments. He said if a speaker had made the same comments about black people, he would have gotten up and left.
Immediately after their joint appearance in Forsyth, Ga., Lowery and Young headed over to Macon. Lowery didn’t say exactly the same thing, but poke through this video of the Macon event sent over by Maynard Eaton, national communications director for the SCLC.
The speech before the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, founded by state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, was recorded by videographer Clyde Bradley, and might leave you with a different impression. Lowery’s every bit as hard on black folk as he is white folk:
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Question Man
November 1st, 2012
9:33 am
Aren’t there better adjectives than “sharp-tongued” to describe these comments by an otherwise respectable Joseph Lowery?
Madge From Accounting
November 1st, 2012
9:33 am
Jeesh people! Joe Lowery is 90+ years old — he probably doesn’t even REMEMBER that much of the 60’s anymore.
Don't Tread
November 1st, 2012
9:35 am
“All that he did with the stimulus was genius”….I suppose math wasn’t Joe’s strong suit.
“I’m frightened by the level of hatred and bitterness coming out in this election” he says, while going back to the belief that all white folks were going to hell. I suppose he better not look in the mirror and scare himself. People like Lowery are part of the problem of “hatred and bitterness”, regardless of what they did in a past life.
Madge From Accounting
November 1st, 2012
9:36 am
Also in respect to the “white people are evil/going to hell claim” — Joe lived during a time when he was beaten and threatened with lynching for even attempting to drink at a “white’s only” fountain. He’s probably never left that era.
Same as my aunt — one of those “whites” who COULD drink from the fountain. she’s a little younger than Joe; but she does the same thing and says just about the same things as Joe does.
that generation is old and dying out — it’s time to let these ideals die out with them. We are stronger together than we are apart.
Deal with it.
Madge From Accounting
November 1st, 2012
9:41 am
Another quick point about Joe’s NOT supporting Charter Schools. He’s basing his information on what happened in Wake County, NC. with the school board and their efforts to resegregrate their area.
You can find the story here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/14/the-battle-for-wake-count_n_926799.html
J Throckmorton Malcontent
November 1st, 2012
9:41 am
I had toasted crackers for breakfast, too. Right on Reverend Lowery.
Lester Maddox....
November 1st, 2012
9:54 am
What pure racist oratory. This goes to prove that white folks do not have a monopoly on racism. Must be hell fighting something all you life and then find out that you are one of your enemies.
cc
November 1st, 2012
9:57 am
“Lowery said Obama lost Georgia by 200,000 votes in 2008 while 390,000 black folks in Georgia did not vote.”
The old race-baiter conveniently forgot that Obama was elected by a combination of blacks and dumb-azz whites. I expect most blacks will vote Obama again based solely on the color of his skin (racist), but hope that the whites have learned the extreme error of their ways.
Before you even go there, I couldn’t care less about the color of the president’s skin IF he is a good president. The lying, divisive, big-spending and big-borrowing Obama is NOT a good president and should be replaced.
James
November 1st, 2012
10:02 am
Jim pull the 11Alive report last night. They asked Lowery did he believe what he said and answered basically that white and black folks are going to hell.
Rev. Lowery is not lying there is vitriol towards this President that hasn’t been presence since the 1960’s.
James
November 1st, 2012
10:08 am
@cc you are and always have been a bigot. Nothing you say about race is relevant. ONE “black man” (he’s actually half white) runs for President and black people vote for him and all the bigots can say is “they are only voting for him cause he’s black”. What about all the WHITE MEN that we have voted for? The logic in your argument is ignorance. You and your ilk aren’t talking about the nearly 90% of Mormons who are voting for Romney cause he’s Mormon or the whites who are voting for him cause he’s WHITE!!! Your argument is pure ignorance!
RCB
November 1st, 2012
10:10 am
Lowery is a racist and always has been. His views never changed, not one iota. Why is he even given press coverage? Jim, are you out of topics? Two in a row about this “reverend?”. You’re the one throwing these race-baiting columns out there and you don’t even monitor responses. Pretty lame.
cc
November 1st, 2012
10:17 am
“there is vitriol towards this President”
Are you suggesting that Obama hasn’t earned the “vitriol”?
You might begin by asking the four Americans killed in Benghazi if they have any vitriolic feelings toward Obama and his administration . . . except they can’t answer, can they?
You can follow up and ask the unborn Americans about the $6+ trillion he has added to the national debt if they have any vitriolic feelings, but they can’t answer yet. Let’s just let that be a little “surprise” for them!
I can go on and on . . .
honested
November 1st, 2012
10:17 am
All the bogus ruffled feathers.
Rev. Lowery just spoke the truth.
‘Deal’ with it.
cc
November 1st, 2012
10:20 am
“Your argument is pure ignorance!”
. . . as was your entire post.
You refuted nothing that I said.
Terminsilly Hip
November 1st, 2012
10:20 am
White folks his age have a word they use to describe Joseph Lowery when they’re not in mixed company. Race-centric oldsters are just creepy relics of a bygone era. The man can’t escape his life experience, but folks that old don’t run the world anymore. They’re not the problem now.
honested
November 1st, 2012
10:32 am
cc.
(Although I’m sure you already do) listen to talk radio, especially the ‘one acceptable opinion’ station here in Atlanta.
It has covered nothing but vitriol against the President since he was just a candidate. And, they shamelessly promoted a no-chance candidate in the primaries, which eliminated any sort of neutrality they might have pretended to harbor.
Personally, I would like to see the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ and the ‘equal time rule’ re-instituted as soon as possible, so at least the morons who get their approved opinion from talk radio could find out theirs is really a minority view.
resno2
November 1st, 2012
10:32 am
Whites have never had a monopoly on racism and people like Lowery are a major part of the problem of “hatred and bitterness”. Unfortunately the more hate he spews the more relevant he stays. It’s time for someone to tell him to step aside and let 2012 pass him by.
Senator Fran Millar
November 1st, 2012
10:36 am
Dr. Lowery needs to check his facts on segregation. Half the charter school students in Georgia are Title 1 and there are more African American than White students in ouer charter schools. When you can’t make a legitimate argument, then play the race card. Sad.
John
November 1st, 2012
10:40 am
Call Joe what he is – a racist. Whether he’s justified fir his feelings because of his personal history is irrelevant. He is the very definition of a racist. And, just like the KKK the sooner he is no longer in a position or power or influence or otherwise in the public eye, the better.
Brad
November 1st, 2012
10:43 am
Anyone who will vote for someone juat because of their color is as big a racist as the person who will vote against someone because of their color. Lowery obviously thinks blacks should only vote for blacks! How racist is that!
cissy
November 1st, 2012
10:45 am
At 91, I guess it’s not surprising if your emotions take over your thinking. I applaud those of us who have shrugged at these comments. At the end of the day, we all have to live here and most of us realize that most folks do the best we can with the hands we’re dealt.
Madge, my hat’s off to you.
mike
November 1st, 2012
10:46 am
How about calling the man by his name. It is not Joe. It is Rev. Joseph Lowery. And considering all he and Andrew Young went through in their lives, who better to recognize racism and racists. Just like people are entitled to post their opinions on here, Mr. Lowery has a right to his opinions also. It took electing a black man as President to bring out what has been in peoples hearts all along. Sorry people if you dont want to face the facts. I guess things would be fine if black folks would just be quiet like blacks did during slavery and Jim Crow. I always find it interesting people from the group who instituted one of the gravest crimes in this country try to put the racist label on people because they speak up. Sorry Madge the era never died out, it just took another form. And Lester you can get your axe handle out the closet now but dont be surprised if some else has one too.
curious
November 1st, 2012
10:46 am
The same fools that listen to and believe right wing talk radio are the same fools that believe pro wrestling is real.
James
November 1st, 2012
10:49 am
Benghazi? If I dare mention George Bush and the debt he built up you will blow a gasket! Clinton left office with a balanced budget you sorry sons of beaches ran up the debt with TWO wars – thousands of our family members killed and you didn’t get the bassard that started it all!!!!
8 years you sat by and was afraid to complain for the fear of being called unpatriotic. The previous administration has done untold damages. Suddenly President Barack Obama comes along and you and your tea beggers suddenly want your country back? You didn’t give a rats ass about deficits when you and your Congress of six year went on a spending spree that has never been matched. Don’t discuss issues with me when your glass house is sitting upon a shaky cliff.
James
November 1st, 2012
10:50 am
One more thing for you cc – Look up the word Kolob – it’s described by your candidate’s religion (Mormon Theology) as the “star closet to the residence of God”
Help me understand but I didn’t know God’s had a residence in the stars.
You guys want to make this man with his beliefs President of the United States you got to be kidding me! Also ask about those income tax returns.
td
November 1st, 2012
10:54 am
When one gets older in life then their true self comes out. They lose the ability to hide their true feelings and most give up the desire to do so.
Ronald Reagan
November 1st, 2012
10:57 am
Rev. Joe has a dream but it’s not of his brothers Martin speech! Joe is dream……ing!
Jay Gordon Coogler
November 1st, 2012
10:58 am
Now I have a reason to vote on Tuesday. By voting for Amendment 1 I’ll be voting against the rabid racist Joe Liewary.
alcam
November 1st, 2012
11:00 am
lowery—a racist still living in the 1960s—blaming everything on racism, using the race card for every argument.
Rick James
November 1st, 2012
11:01 am
The insult to me is not that he used that word because its a common practice amoung us.The insult is that he and a lot of others tell black people that we should vote for Obama simply because he’s black..Its like they’re saying dont worry we’ve done all of the thinking for black folks and this is who we need to vote for.Had any white person out stomping for Romney used that word all hell would break loose.Do black people really need people to think and speak for us?
td
November 1st, 2012
11:07 am
James
November 1st, 2012
10:50 am
Look up Liberation Theology. You made a man President that believes in it.
Miss Understood
November 1st, 2012
11:09 am
He is the very definition of a racist
Some of you guys on here need to look up the definition of racist. Seriously.
Woodstock Dawg
November 1st, 2012
11:10 am
Civil Rigths Leaders that out live there usefulness, turn into race pimps.
The last time I saw Dr. Lowery he was at the Ritz Carlton (buckhead), getting into his 125K Mercedes-Benz.
Looks like being Down With the Struggle, is pretty profitable.
Woodstock Dawg
November 1st, 2012
11:10 am
Civil Rigths Leaders that out live there usefulness, turn into race pimps.
The last time I saw Dr. Lowery he was at the Ritz Carlton (buckhead), getting into his 125K Mercedes-Benz.
Looks like being Down With the Struggle, is pretty profitable.
Miss Understood
November 1st, 2012
11:11 am
You’re using racist and prejudiced interchangeably — they are two SEPARATE words with different meanings.
Doris M
November 1st, 2012
11:12 am
All this rhetoric means nothing. The Charter amendment is about who controls. Is it going to be local control or state control. I would not want state legislators controlling anything; look how they have performed so far. Even though public schools have not faired that well in Georgia neither has the legislature.
BredofLife
November 1st, 2012
11:12 am
MSNBC goes to the race card daily and with passion. Every word spoken by Republican’s or Fox is racist according to them. Mormon’s are racists according to them. Anybody black who is a Republican or Conservative is an ignorant sellout. Christian Evangelicals are racist according to them. Pro-lifers are racist and anti-women according to them. If you’re not a racist you’re a far-right nutcase fringe lunatic. If you’re a Constitutionalist you’re a racist. If you’re a Tea Party member you’re a racist. If you watch Fox you’re a racist. Conservative talk radio hosts and listener’s are racist according to them. Can someone please tell me one racist comment they have ever heard out of the mouth of any Conservative or Republican during this campaign? Oh I forgot, MSNBC and and the media have gone to calling any random description about any random topic spoken by any of the above as “code” for racism. “It’s Monday” is code for whatever MSNBC says is racism cloaked in normal everyday dialogue. Rev. Lowery at 90 is still very cogent and is not confused. He wants to scare us into thinking the 1930’s and 40’s are on the way back. It shows he sees and so do many Democrats, the world through that period. So does Joe Biden, who says Republicans are going to put ya’ll back in chains. Disgraceful Joe. Disgraceful Rev. Lowery.
Dirty Dawg
November 1st, 2012
11:14 am
I’m white…I was born and have lived almost 70 years in this state…and believe me when I tell you the prejudice toward blacks is as bad now as i can remember. Of course it was worse during the days labeled ‘Jim Crow’, and worse still when ‘white folks’ bragged about lynching ‘uppity n*******’, but to me Joseph Lowery is right. Way too many of my Republican friends have become so openly cynical about anyone ‘other’ than themselves, and even when you debunk, with facts, every argument they present – to the point that they finally say, I don’t care cause it’s the thought that counts – I’m left with only one conclusion. They are driven by either greed, prejudice or both…and only the concept of ‘cognitive dissonance’ keeps them from admitting it.
Voter
November 1st, 2012
11:18 am
He needs help. Not just 1 or 2 doctors but a whole team. His kind of prejudice is what’s wrong.
Wilbur
November 1st, 2012
11:19 am
Lowry is a hate filled bigot. As years have passed, he has not mellowed but has turned more bitter and more angry. The AJC would do well not to give his hate a pass.
James
November 1st, 2012
11:26 am
td you and Glenn Beck need to stop meeting after work for drinks.
Kolob is a belief in the Mormon religion. Main stream or not. They believe in a residence closer to God in the stars. As a Bishop of the LDS church Romney taught this doctrine or he would have been excommunicated.
Funny how President Barack Obama’s religion thoughts and beliefs are scrutinized and Romney’s beliefs and practices of his religion are swept under the rug. LDS sects believe in poligamy and practice it to this day. Romney’s grand parents ran to Mexico because of it where his father was born. Hell up to recently Billy Graham called Mormonism a cult.
Bob
November 1st, 2012
11:29 am
“We’ve turned our backs on the faith,” said Lowery. “America is going to hell in a hand basket. We need to straighten up so God can use us.” Hey joe, have you not heard, we are no longer a Christian nation, Obo told us so.
Dirty Dawg
November 1st, 2012
11:29 am
Hey bredoflife, what do you watch or listen to? Cause MSNBC, much to my chagrin, has more thoughtful, articulate conservatives on their network every day and week than FauxNews has ever had, and they (MSNBC) don’t merely have them on so they can give em a ‘beatdown’ to the delight of their audience. If you’re a ‘ditto-head’ (I guess they’re still called that) you’ve pretty much labeled yourself and nothing you say will change the truth of what Rev Lowery said.
BredofLife
November 1st, 2012
11:32 am
Mr. Dirty Dog, please tell us what your 20-30-40-50-60 year old Republican friends are thinking. Cause you know your 70 and 80 year old friends were good old Southern Democrats, like you and Lester Maddox.
Rick James
November 1st, 2012
11:39 am
@Woodstock Dawg
Looks like being Down With the Struggle, is pretty profitable
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Its very profitable and its funny that the only person who didnt become a millionire was Martin Luther King Jr.That merecedes you saw Dr. Lowery get into probably came from Andy Young’s dealership. The struggle is not a movement anymore its a business.
Bobo
November 1st, 2012
11:40 am
Lowery deserves no more respect than David Duke or Adolph Hitler. What a racist hypocrite. This exposes him for what he is…..just like Jessie Jackson. If anything, he’s racist against his own people because there is big money in crying racism to everything and in inciting activists to anger over lies. Those kind of ‘honorable leaders’ have made careers out of mugging and suing companies and distorting the truth. If anything, they are keeping their own people down by preaching the gospel of personal entitlement. I suppose that there is some sort of exception to the Bible according to these ‘reverends’ that think that something that happened over 100 years ago and wasn’t actually done by the people living today could ever be forgiven.
Voter
November 1st, 2012
11:41 am
@Dirty Dawg – MSNBC,CNBC and NBC have received funds from the so called Obama Stimulus plan. There is not 1 conservative on that show nor even a un-biased report. Wake up and smell what your shoveling.
Bobo
November 1st, 2012
11:43 am
Bredoflife, if you are going to dog out someone for not being a ‘Southern democrat’, then why aren’t you a republican like Abe Lincoln was? The only designation that matters anymore is liberal or conservative. The political parties are financial machines who don’t give a rip about anyone that isn’t a powerful millionaire. To them, we are all Stalin’s ‘useful idiots’.
Mortimer Cuthbert
November 1st, 2012
11:43 am
If anybody is going to HeII it is those bling worshiping, no respect for human life demon leaches in the ghetto.
double
November 1st, 2012
11:44 am
Voter@11: Are you talking about cc/TD and all his other aka’s or Mr. Lowery.
GaBlue
November 1st, 2012
11:44 am
Please… Rev. Lowery is a little late! Mike Huckabee already explained that any of us voting for Democrats will “burn in Hell,” regardless of our Christian beliefs. Looks like that’s going to be a crowded place, huh?
What I want to know is, will Jimi be there, what time does the gig start, and can we smoke?
Mortimer Cuthbert
November 1st, 2012
11:47 am
Why do black folks get so worked up!? If their ancestors hadn’t made the sacrifice to get on a ship and be enslaved they wouldn’t even be here. They’d be living in huts with bones in their noses. Just sayin. Geez.
And another thing – When it comes to income inequality of course Whites are going have more money than any other demographic because White folks are the ones who started this dang country! Duh.
double
November 1st, 2012
11:49 am
@11:18
Voter
November 1st, 2012
11:50 am
@Double – Mr. Lowery
Candace
November 1st, 2012
11:51 am
Did you really entitle your headline “What did Joe Lowery say over the weekend?”?!?!? This living legend, famous Preacher, activist extraordinaire, and SCLC President Emeritus deserves a title, at the age of 91, in front of his name! In his own words, he’s “Marched too long! Prayed too hard! Wept too bitterly! Bled too profusely” not to get the respect that he deserves!
JPolk
November 1st, 2012
11:53 am
More Black Liberation Theology from their bigoted leadership.
Miss J
November 1st, 2012
11:57 am
@ Mortimer Cuthbert Wow your so Dumb you’re smart – do your history bro..
Where there White slaves in America? HELL Yeah…..
Those academics who insist that slavery is an exclusively Black racial condition forget or deliberately omit the fact that the word slave originally was a reference to Whites of East European origin – “Slavs.”
Miss J
November 1st, 2012
11:58 am
Where there white slaves in America…why hell yeah……
Why yes, there were. In fact, there were even black slave-holders. Down South, there’s a lot of poverty, and so, it came to pass that in order to survive and pay off debt, you become an indentured servant.
2DPointAtlanta
November 1st, 2012
11:58 am
This conference was held in Monroe County, GA?? How many of you have been there? I certainly have and just talked to some friends from there over the past few days. They said nothing at all about this conference and probably never knew it was there.
Bottom line is that black, white, yellow or brown: Everyone needs to wake up to the quality of education in our school system and decide whether it’s adequate or not. Move your children to where you believe they should be because making change in a stiff-necked school system is a waste of time.
I notice the recent pro-charter school commercial showing this young black girl talking about the advantages of voting “yes” for this amendment. Something didn’t settle right with me on it. Using one black student as a tool in effort to sway something like this tends to make me angrier. Give me 1000 extra true testimonials from other black kids and I’d reassess in a heart-beat.
Because the water looks muddy on this amendment (as it did on the previous amendent for the transportation tax), I’m voting “NO” and hope more of you do the same.
Jennifer
November 1st, 2012
11:59 am
“Sharp-tongued”? I’d call that bigoted crap. For Madge, I would agree up to the point where he says he thought that when he was more militant (in the 50’s/60’s), except he says he mellowed out and then returned to feeling that way. He can have whatever opinion he wants, this is America, but it’s my opinion that he’s an ass.
Miss J
November 1st, 2012
12:01 pm
Wow you started the country but you were also Slaves …..
We are all in this together but ….research before you BLOG….
Oh, back in the day only land owners had the right to vote (if you did not own land (did not matter if you were White) you did not vote PERIOD……Hmmmmmmmm maybe a class system……
LEARN YOUR HISTORY…….
Miss J
November 1st, 2012
12:08 pm
It is true about the Slavs. The Vikings used to make regular raids into various places and carry off the inhabitants for the slave market in Muslim countries. The Moors dealt in slave trading all the time from Spain.
curious
November 1st, 2012
12:10 pm
I would have voted yes on T-Splost except for the current government in our state house.
Same reason I’m voting NO on amendment 1.
Jon Lester
November 1st, 2012
12:16 pm
I don’t believe there’s a hell for anybody to go to, but I do think we should let the elderly Lowery say what he feels. And he’s right about voter turnout, regardless of demographic.
Fannin
November 1st, 2012
12:20 pm
The “Reverend” Lowery is a “civil rights leader” in the same parallel universe in which George Wallace and Lester Maddox were civil rights leaders. Lowery, Maddox and Wallace are cut from the same cloth and fighting for the rights of one race to the exclusion of others. I hope that in the future, Blacks will look back on Lowery with the same revulsion so many whites look back on the old southern segregationists and for the same reason. My daughter was teased for being “yellow” for the first time in her life after Lowery read his stupid little racist ditty at the last Inauguration. She came home and asked “why do they call Asian people yellow, my skin isn’t yellow?” Lowery grew up in a time surrounded by people who enabled his racism just as Maddox and Wallace were enabled by their White supporters. Let’s pray for a time when everyone does indeed get up and turn their backs on old fools like Lowery when they make these kinds of racist remarks.
resno2
November 1st, 2012
12:22 pm
James: why is Romney’s submitting his tax returns (outside of the scope of the law, or what any other presidential candidate has had to do) so important to you?
td
November 1st, 2012
12:24 pm
Miss J
November 1st, 2012
11:58 am
Where there white slaves in America…why hell yeah……
Why yes, there were. In fact, there were even black slave-holders. Down South, there’s a lot of poverty, and so, it came to pass that in order to survive and pay off debt, you become an indentured servant.
There are still black slave owners. Joesph Lowery, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the other race pimps are paid by their masters the White elite progressives in this country to keep all other blacks on the progressive plantation of dependency on the government. The sad part is most African Americans do not even know it.
Ms. Butterworth
November 1st, 2012
12:24 pm
Black, white, yellow…it doesnt matter. Trash is trash. The reason blacks feel like they are being discriminated against is because over 75% of them act like they just came from prison (oh wait, they did) and dont care about laws, civility, respect, personal property of others, or themselves. They act like trash and need to be taken out to the dump. You get treated they way you treat others… and what a much better place this would be if ONLY the property owners could vote. If you dont have skin(no pun intended) in the game, you should not get to decide for those that do. AND, because all those big bad banks loaned most of the money for the “underpriveledged” to purchase a house, they could vote. IF we still had that law. But because those same underpriveledged couldnt handle the payments, they lost their house but still get to have as much say as those that make payments in a timely manner. HOW FAIR IS THAT?
resno2
November 1st, 2012
12:26 pm
Candace: ” he’s Marched too long! Prayed too hard! Wept too bitterly! Bled too profusely not to get the respect that he deserves!” With the hate filled speech that he spews, he is getting the respect that he deserves.
Weetamoe
November 1st, 2012
12:43 pm
Wouldn’t Lowery’s theological consignments to after-life destinations put Obama in Limbo? Personally, i think he won’t get past the Vestibule, where he can dash hither and yon shouting his slogans. But just sorting by color, Joe, Limbo it is.
Firetruck
November 1st, 2012
12:51 pm
Racist and a bigot would be a better way to describe this “Pastor”.
bucket
November 1st, 2012
1:09 pm
Defending bad behavior (or language) by pointing out other bad behavior is a tired form of debate in this country. Everyone should be rising up against this type of speech by Mr. Lowery, regardless of race or political persuasion.
Shamus O'Shea
November 1st, 2012
1:18 pm
Good interview Jeff Hullinger. Your doing a great job outside of sports. Keep up the good work.
luangtom
November 1st, 2012
1:23 pm
Rev. Lowery, Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Jackson…….and they say White people are racists?
old news
November 1st, 2012
1:57 pm
this is old news…he made the same comments at an Atlanta City Hall Meeting on August 20th: Video here, fast forward to about the 1hr mark.
http://citycouncil.atlantaga.gov/VIDEO.HTM
John
November 1st, 2012
3:07 pm
The vitriol directed toward BHO pales in comparison to what has been said about George W. Bush. Not even in the same league.
DAWG POUND
November 1st, 2012
3:17 pm
“I’m frightened by the level of hatred and bitterness coming out in this election,” said Lowery
Look in the mirror Mr Lowery. You must be scared as hell at the sight of yourself!
Lowery was always a bigoted racist! If there is a hell, Mr Lowery will be the Deacon greeting you at the door!
Steffie
November 1st, 2012
3:18 pm
Shameful. If he really feels that way about white Americans, then a true man of God would be working to reach out to his fellow man with the Gospel of Christ, but he doesn’t seem to be concerned about that…he seems to just be concerned with hating white folks. I mean, that’s what this is, hate. To blanket an entire group of people as hell bound based only on their race, without knowing anything of their personal relationship with God isn’t even Biblical. Shameful, shameful, shameful. I hope he doesn’t think more highly of himself than the worst of the KKK members because his heart and ignorance is no different.
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for.
the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God.
whom he has not seen. 1 John 4:20.
Miss J
November 1st, 2012
3:56 pm
@ TD
Again please do your homework before spewing you lies. 75% of blacks have been in jail —PLEASE read below…..
In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 Caucasians (2.2 percent). Crime rates have declined by about 25 percent from 1988-2008.[15] 70% of prisoners in the United States are non-whites.[16] In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the “war on drugs.” Violent crime and property crime have declined since the early 1990s.[17]
Guido
November 1st, 2012
6:26 pm
If you won’t vote for Obama, only because he is back, you are a racist.
If you will vote for Obama, because he is black, you are also a racist.
Hillary Lindh
November 1st, 2012
6:57 pm
This can be dissected, analyzed, debated but all it does is drive the wedge deeper in a Country divided. I think it’s sad for our children’s future because this is proof that nothing has changed. There is so much hate & finger pointing with both candidates & I have yet to hear what they are going to do to help my Country & now this – more hate – not a joke to me.
T Jordan
November 1st, 2012
7:48 pm
I am just amazed that a “man of God’ would not just vote, but also campaign for a President that believes and endorsed same sex marriage and partial birth abortion. Maybe Lowery doesn’t have a problem with a doctor sticking a pair of scissors in the skull of a kicking baby and sucking it’s brains out, but God does. So whether you are red or yellow, black or white, you are precious in his sight and I truly think if you condone this with your vote, YOU will have to answer to God. It is not about the color of the person you are voting for, it’s about what he believes in!!
jp
November 1st, 2012
8:21 pm
Look there is enough hate in this world, why add to it with comments like these. God created everyone equal that includes black, white, and my people the native americans. I am sick of hearing about racism and all that crap. The only way we as a country will get through this is together. So stop pointing fingers and work together. If anyone has grounds for complaining is my people who had their country taken from them. You don’t see us pissing and moaning about it. Wake up people we are all in this together.
George Crumbly
November 1st, 2012
9:30 pm
He’s about as much a reverend as al sharpton & jessie jackson. they are all pathetic.
Guido
November 1st, 2012
10:43 pm
Lowery endorses any position his donors and contributors ask him to; he’s an embarrassment to the civil rights movement and more of racist than anyone in the city. If you agree with his position, you’re a racist too.
Having said that, it’s unlikely that he even understands the debate or what’s being discussed.
B baker
November 1st, 2012
11:18 pm
This man (lowery) is a disgrace! He does nothing for equality I am sad for those who believe his words have merit. He should not have an audience …bigotry at its worst!
benita michelle wheeler
November 2nd, 2012
12:31 am
Joseph is always going to be anti PC which is why we still love him because he speaks his mind. You are not going change it. This is why he is part of history.
WhiteMan
November 2nd, 2012
4:53 am
All blacks are going to hell. Still a joke? What a bigiot and racist! Poor reporting by the AJC.
Edmund Ruffin
November 2nd, 2012
7:17 am
Nothing new here, Lowery has been a racist for a long time.
Seriously though...
November 2nd, 2012
8:16 am
So he is now calling his racist (and incendiary) remarks a joke? Because he is considered an “icon” by some will he get a pass? This was no joke, he meant what he said just like the race tinged remarks he made at the inauguration. It seems to me that there is a faction in the black community whose agenda is to keep the racism going in order to enrich themselves.
AJC Admin
November 2nd, 2012
8:22 am
We at the AJC would like to applogise for the joke of a career that Jim Galloway has had. His one sided biased reporting has been unhelpful to Atlanta and most importantly our faithful readers. Thank you.
MSG Top
November 2nd, 2012
8:23 am
An old racist dying words.
honested
November 2nd, 2012
8:37 am
However you take Revernd Lowery’s comments, the message is clear…..
Vote properly, Obama 2012!!
Turn GA Purple (especially the voter suppression wing of ALEC!)
Ms.Smeneza
November 2nd, 2012
9:56 am
I’m sadden by this old civil rights leader for bringing hate to our race. We are all equal in Gods eyes and that is no joke. What a sad old man filled with hate. And if he wants to know, I’m the type voting for Romney!
Mike
November 2nd, 2012
10:31 am
If Billy Graham had said “all blacks are going to hell” Joe Lowery and the ALCU would be jumping up and down, talk about racism!
Ashley
November 2nd, 2012
12:56 pm
Wow most of you know how to copy and paste facts! How about real feelings!