I just saw a facebook entry in which the husband of one of my childhood friends informed everyone that racism is a sin. I don’t know about anyone else, but I didn’t need him to tell me that: I have always known that racism is a sin. I thought everybody born after 1920 knew that, but recent events are causing me to wonder.
Black Lives Matter has changed the way I view many other white people, and not in a good way. I am not racist; I have never been racist, and until very recently, I went through life assuming that most other white people were not racist either, but I am beginning to wonder about that. I am seeing white people whom I have known most or all of my life suddenly expressing great concern for the plight of black people: yesterday, they didn’t care, or if they did, they said nothing, but today they are screaming “Black Lives Matter” from every rooftop. Until five minutes ago, I was way more concerned about racism in America than they were. As a pro-lifer, I have been trying for decades to explain to my white friends how racist Margaret Sanger was; they didn’t care. They still don’t care. For decades, I have been trying to explain to my white friends that Planned Parenthood, the organization founded by Margaret Sanger, specifically targets black women in black neighborhoods: they didn’t care, and they still don’t care. They only care about what the most powerful person today orders them to care about. Black Lives Matter doesn’t care about black babies being aborted, so opportunistic white people don’t care either. They only care if they perceive that caring can get them ahead in some way. I think I might be beginning to understand why Black Lives Matter types harbor so much hostility and contempt towards white people.
The behavior I have witnessed these past few weeks from white people whom I have known forever-white people who rarely or never leave their white neighborhoods, white people who didn’t give a damn about racism yesterday, is beyond disgusting. It is beneath contempt; it’s 2020. Any white guy in the year 2020 who takes it upon himself to inform people that racism is a sin? Is a douchebag. I have been speaking out for black lives all my life, and the douche who recently informed me that racism is a sin could not have cared less, and could still care less.
But maybe Black Lives Matter actually has a point: if some white people really feel that they owe black people an apology, maybe they do. They know their own souls better than I do: if they say that they have been racist, who am I to say that they haven’t been? What do I know? As a Catholic, the whole public confession of sins thing strikes me as a kind of odd: I tend to think that those who want to confess their sins should keep it private, but whatever. If some white people want to publicly confess that they have been racist, they have every right to do that, but they do not speak for all white people, and they do not speak for me. I have been trying all my life to save black babies: I have been trying all my life to get these douchebag white people who have hopped on the black lives matter bandwagon to help me to save black babies, but they never would. Five minutes ago, they suddenly decided to get down on their knees in front of a black thug, because they say that they now realize that black lives matter, but they still don’t care about black babies, and they think that’s ok because the black thug they are bowing to doesn’t care about black babies either. And they think that they are qualified to lecture me about the evils of racism? Are you kidding?
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“Racism is a sin” is the stupidest statement I have sever heard. The entire Bible is full of racist statements. Even Jesus referred to Gentiles as “dogs”.
And I looove your conclusion! You’re right, if someone claims to be racist, I believe it! In my experience what people say about themselves is usually true. My sister in law is an expert at this. When she wants to criticize me, she’ll write a long screed about how “horrendous” her own transgressions have been. I finally said, “I get it! You’re a whited sepulcher! If you’re gonna keep insisting on how sinful you are, at LEAST Tell me the titillating details!”
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Racism is a sin, and I know that you know that, Hypatia, but for those in the audience who may not get it 🙂 Besides being the Son of God and the Savior of all Mankind, Jesus was a complicated figure, lol 🙂 I think the Golden Rule pretty much covers it, though: if we don’t want others to discriminate against us, then we should not discriminate against them. I do not understand and cannot explain why Jesus would refer to Gentiles as dogs, Lol, but I am sure that there was an excellent reason for it that I just don’t understand, and I say that as a Gentile 🙂
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Yes, that’s the popular stance toward religion: no doubt it’s all for the best, but He’s gonna have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do in the Sweet By and By!
( I’m not making fun of YOU, dear Judy, truly, but this has always driven me crazy. When it comes right down to it: what kind of power would create a being capable of asking “Why? why? WHY?!?! only to present us with a brick wall: these things are hidden from ye; “through a glass darkly” etc.)
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The Ten Commandments obviously applies only within the group : Thous shalt not kill, or steal from, another Jewish male, etc. The Golden Rule, which didn’t originate with Christianity, is a tad more capable of universal application
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Your sister in law seems to enjoy confessing her sins? This whole public confession of sins thing has got me thinking that maybe the Catholic Church was onto something with the Sacrament of Confession: Catholics are strongly encouraged to confess their sins in private to someone who is sworn to absolute secrecy: we are strongly discouraged from doing it publicly. Every time I am about to walk out of the Catholic Church, something like this happens that makes me think that maybe the Catholics have a point after all. Why can’t these people just keep their sins to themselves? What in the world is going on here?
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In my case, it’s her overweening need to feel superior, even if thst means being better at excoriating herself. Oh, enuf about me! Some of you know a bit of this thorn in my side…
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* I don’t want to make it sound as though I am some kind of super pro-life advocate, because I’m really not. There are so many people who do far more than I do, and always have. But I have always tried my best to speak up for the unborn, and many of the white people I know who are now jumping on the black lives matter bandwagon would tell me privately that they agreed with me, but they didn’t want to focus on abortion, because it was too controversial, they said: until five minutes ago, they were all about avoiding controversy. I just find it sickening.
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The term “racism” has changed in the 20th and 21st century. In the 1920s – the 1960s it meant exactly how we define it now.
Suddenly, starting in 1967 in Detroit there are destructive riots, Black Panthers intimidating voters at polling booths, horrendous rates of black-on-black crime in urban America, Al Sharpton annihilating hardworking Korean grocers in NYC, and a consistent effort to create acrimony and hostility between the races even while looting black-owned businesses.
This is not racist but an inflammatory grasp for power because MLK and the SNCC kids accomplished much leaving many of MLK’s posse with too much time on their hands. If I walk through the south side of Chicago at night and see a gang of young black teenagers in hoodies, I will run. This isn’t racism, but a cool assessment of the statistics.
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3+years of Russiagate lies.
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