"Dear God, help me hate white people" - Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, Seminary Professor at Mercer Unv
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1 To you, Lord, I call;
you are my Rock,
do not turn a deaf ear to me...
3 Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with those who do evil,
who speak cordially with their neighbors
but harbor malice in their hearts.
4 Repay them for their deeds
and for their evil work;
repay them for what their hands have done
and bring back on them what they deserve.
you are my Rock,
do not turn a deaf ear to me...
3 Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with those who do evil,
who speak cordially with their neighbors
but harbor malice in their hearts.
4 Repay them for their deeds
and for their evil work;
repay them for what their hands have done
and bring back on them what they deserve.
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The Psalmist prays for his enemies to get their just deserts, for the malice in their hearts and their evil deeds, despite their cordial speech to their neighbors. One could well say the same about racists. Indeed, the author of the OP did.
The people who are happy to have me over for dinner, but alert the neighborhood watch anytime an unrecognized person of color passes their house.
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No, she said "white people".
So I guess if you are white you just get thrown into the batter and mixed together......
The German Reich anyone? They showed the first step to persecution is demonization.....seems we are going down the same road that they did......
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Perpetually angry people can't get out of the crib of bitterness and blame, there will be no Reich forthcoming from such.
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Aggressively serene!
Yeah....she's a racist.
But let's give her the most gentle consideration of her ugly viewpoint possible and start from there....
A group of black people were transported as property and stripped of cultural factors against their will. It's not surprising that they should begin to see themselves as distinct from the white people who did this. They slowly began to create their own group identity to replace the one taken from them.
Over the subsequent decades a long argument over the correct way to view this relationship between two groups has resulted in the gradual humanization of black people and acceptance of their status as equals in all ways and respects. That's a summarization of a long process full of steps forward and steps backward.
That's how it looks to many white people who can remember, even in the 90s, how badly racist beliefs had fallen out of fashion. People had careers ruined over a word spoken in public or were apologizing to everyone.
I can understand why it would seem like a one sided problem. I think a lot of white people assumed once they dealt with the racism within the broader white community....all other communities would emulate it. This is apparently wrong.
Black people have never stopped seeking a replacement culture for the one taken from them. This had some positive effects....and negative effects. The identity they have forged seems to be currently manifesting as a result of their struggle against racism.
It was a long struggle....so that makes perfectly reasonable sense.
The problem is that as actual racism declined in the white community....that identity as an oppressed people struggling against racism becomes less relevant. We see increasingly used terms like "playing the race card". We see accusations of racism without any evidence and are left wondering.
That hasn't stopped. In attempt to cling to this identity of the oppressed who righteously struggle against racism....they attempted to redefine it. It's something only white people do. It's something inherently in systems. It's something you do unconsciously. It's something you do without realizing.
No one actually uses these definitions....because they don't really work or cannot clearly express a better understanding of racism. Everyone still goes by the same old definition. The new ones only get trotted out by certain people for certain reasons.
The results of this are clear....we have created a society that allows certain people to express openly racist and hostile beliefs that we would not accept from other people. This is perpetuated by people who never hold these racists accountable or ask them to examine their own racist beliefs.
That's a rather gentle version of how we get to the point where this woman feels it's acceptable to be so openly racist. I'm sure she's genuinely surprised that anyone disagrees. I'm not saying she's a bad person, but she's a person who is a result of her time and place. Calling her a racist isn't a moral judgement....it's simply a statement of factual truth.
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Woman obviously has a hate complex.
You can have her over for dinner; she'll still denounce you as racist if you don't want Trayvon Martin casing your place.
You can have her over for dinner; she'll still denounce you as racist if you don't want Trayvon Martin casing your place.
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Aggressively serene!
No, she said "white people".
So I guess if you are white you just get thrown into the batter and mixed together......
The German Reich anyone? They showed the first step to persecution is demonization.....seems we are going down the same road that they did......
There's some eerie similarities....
Let's assume the worst by saying some Hitleresque racists hate white people and seek to eliminate them. You'd expect to see certain things like racial scapegoating (blaming all social ills on white people) and it would creep into the political and educational environment as well.
These are similarities. Jews left the German educational system in droves when it started teaching they were inherently immoral and greedy. White people have rightly begun leaving the educational system now that it teaches whites are inherently racist and immoral.
So I can understand the comparison. Let's look at why it won't play out the same way.
These particular racists aren't smart. They think that power comes from writing laws....it doesn't. They are also bad at math....since whites make up 60+% of the population and German Jews only made up about 1% of the population.
It's easy to oppress 1%....it's really hard to oppress 60%.
Even if you get a significant number of that 60% to go along with it....you can't create a system that denies them benefits and treats them as second class without it becoming apparent.
Those who went along at first with the program will eventually withdraw support or switch sides.
I'm hoping it never gets that far though. I'd rather not be around to see it. I don't expect any gentle treatment or careful response to be the result.
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