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Chaplain compares New York City to 'plantation' at Mayor de Blasio's inauguration

Rev. Fred Lucas, a Sanitation Department chaplain, startled some when he prayed for New Yorkers to be emancipated from 'the plantation called New York City' during his invocation at de Blasio's ceremony.

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BY ERIN DURKIN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2014, 2:38 AM

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The Rev. Fred Lucas (left, with black fedora) at Mayor de Blasio's inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, where he called New York City a 'plantation.'

A Sanitation Department chaplain startled listeners when he compared New York to a “plantation” during his invocation at Mayor de Blasio’s inauguration.

“Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,” said the Rev. Fred Lucas of the Brooklyn Community Church.

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Lucas (second from left) prayed that 'the plantation called New York City be the city of God.'

The prayer was an extended metaphor on slavery, pegged to the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. “Through your divine leadership, emancipate every New Yorker from the shackles of fear, futility and frustration, from poverty, homelessness, helplessness,” he said.

A torrent of tweets followed. Councilman Brad Lander called it “one of the most powerful & fearless calls for justice,” while Keith Urbahn, aide to ex-defense chief Donald Rumsfeld, said, “What stuns me isn't that a chaplain called NYC ‘a plantation’ but that the NYC Dept of Sanitation has a chaplain.”

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