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Thursday, September 25, 2008

America isn't postracial yet
Posted by Jill | 7:32 AM
Let's hear no more talk of how racism is a thing of the past. Hot on the heels of the news of racist flyers in Roxbury, NJ comes more racial hatred directed at Barack Obama:
Officials at a US Christian college have launched an investigation after a cardboard effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree, a statement said Wednesday.

George Fox University, in Newberg, Oregon, said in a statement on its website that the cutout of Obama was found hanging from a tree on campus early Tuesday morning before being removed by staff.

A sign reading "Act Six reject" was taped to the cutout. Act Six is a scholarship program run by the college granted to 10 student leaders from urban Portland. Most of the students currently benefiting from the program are ethnic minorities, the statement said.


To its credit, George Fox University has issued a variety of statements from the university's president, board of trustees, and student government, as well as an apology to Barack Obama.

But if we're going to talk about Islamic terrorism and how religion drives people to commit crimes against humanity, it's high time in this country that we started looking at terrorism committed by so-called Christians. Whether it's hanging black presidential candidates in effigy or bombing abortion clinics, discussion of Christian terrorism is taboo in this country. This country's religiosity, given its secular roots, is a bafflement, but no religion that regards itself as the One True Way is immune from being used as an excuse for terrorism. It's time Christianity stopped getting a free pass.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
I'm afraid that racism might end up deciding this election once the McCain camp starts airing attack ads connecting Obama to William Ayers et al. I fear the underlying racism of many Americans even more than the outright displays of it.

http://theswitchintime.blogspot.com
9/25/08, 10:22 AM  
Blogger D. said...
I begin to suspect that what really drives the electorate is Fear of Becoming Adults and Using Their Brains.

And I am getting tired of the Shakespearean play this campaign is turning into.
9/25/08, 10:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Thank you, BAB. There are many of us that have lost our jobs,homes, and kids, because we follow alternate (non-christian) beliefs.I know one young man that was beaten so badly that he had to be treated at the hospital. What he was doing was setting up an alter at a local park to honor and worship the spirits of nature. And these people called themselves "decent god fearing christians".
One more reason "Let's go back to the Dark Ages" Palin scares me so much.
9/25/08, 10:43 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Just when I'm about to go cry over the backwards, narrow, medieval views of some people, I find things like this-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfq4lgjIv2U
I love their Obama shirts.
9/25/08, 12:01 PM  
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