Clyburn Sworn in to 110th congress- with his hand on a Gullah Bible.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/16411944.htm

Clyburn sworn in with Gullah Bible
DAN HUNTLEY
[e-mail]
When Congressman James Clyburn, D-S.C. was sworn into the 110th Congress last week in Washington, he held his right hand on a Bible.

What was unusual was that it was a Gullah Bible.

Gullah is a Creole language born on Africa's west coast in the 1600s and is still spoken by some slave descendants along the coastal islands of the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. Gullah is known as Geechee from Savannah southward.

Clyburn has been instrumental in pushing a Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Act through Congress over the past two years. The program will help preserve and protect historic Gullah-Geechee sites along the coast between Wilmington, N.C. and Jacksonville, Fla. Clyburn is not Gullah, but his wife, Emily, is a Gullah descendant. Clyburn's oath of office was administered by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Clyburn is the first South Carolinian and the second African-American to ever assume majority whip position in Congress.

Clyburn's Gullah Bible has a Charlotte area connection -- it was created in late 2005 at the JAARS Center, a Waxhaw, N.C.-based group that has translated the Bible into more than 610 languages.

[central scrutinizer]

1. Why does this guy hate America so much?

Doesn't he know that the Bible was written in English? Translation is blasphemy!

[murielm99]

10. My father grew up in a

German-speaking community in Minnesota. He went to parochial school in the 1930's. They taught the secular subjects in English, and religion in German.

Some of the older folks there would have disagreed with the freepers. They KNEW the Bible was written in German. Translation into English was blasphemy.

[I_Will]

2. I understood the official "swearing in" to Congress was without *any* book...

...but that the the newly sworn-in congressmembers could turn around and pose for photo ops ***after*** taking the oath and being officially sworn in with their hands on anything or anybody they want.

You know, like any other photo op or family picture that has no official meaning whatsoever, just like any of us could do.

That is; it's optional, symbolic, completely removed from anything "official" and has been made way too much of during this session.

That's my understanding, anyway.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Dem's understanding of our history is so much more nuanced and subtle than R's ...

nice to see something besides the 'Disneyfied' history that Repugs favor.

[nannah]

5. if bush or cheney were swearing their oath, their hand would be fondling

a dollar bill.

[Auntie Bush]

6. or themselves.

[Chulanowa]

8. Simple minds favor simple history

Right wing history course in four easy lessions:
Murika was empty before the Murikans arrived
Murika always spoke English
Murika saved the world from Hitler
The Islams hate Murika for its freedoms.

[babylonsister]

4. I hope no one told Goode.

:yoiks:

[druidity33]

7. i hope someone did... n/t

[ellisonz]

9. Awesome!

That man loves his wife and his country.

:patriot:

[KoKo]

11. Good for him! Glad to know he supports his wife's roots and the uniqueness

of Gullah in the Carolina/Georgia Lowcountry.