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Irate Ivy League professor calls God ‘a white racist god’ after Zimmerman verdict
Daily Caller ^
| 07/16/2013
| Eric Owens
Posted on 07/16/2013 2:38:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In light of a Florida jury verdict finding George Zimmerman not guilty, a professor at an Ivy League university has now concluded that God is a white racist god with a problem who is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.
The fulmination is part of an epic blog rant by Anthea Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a frequent guest at media outlets including MSNBC and CNN.
In the diatribe, Butler cites a book she first read as a seminary student called Is God a White Racist? by William R. Jones. She found the book surprising then, but says she understands it now, particularly as she contemplates the death of Trayvon Martin, who died on February 26, 2012.
God aint good all of the time, Butler declares. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us. As a black woman in an [sic] nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god aint my god.
Butler is particularly upset at what she views as the conservative Christian conception of the Creator.
Whatever makes them protected, safe, and secure, is worth it at the expense of the black and brown people they fear, she rages. Their god is the god that wants to erase race.
Butler also complains about the Three-Fifths Compromise, which essentially treated slaves as three-fifths of a person, and which was part of the Constitution when it was originally ratified in 1789.
In 1865, almost 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, thus nullifying the notorious compromise.
Religious conservatism of the 21st century is in bed with the prison industrial complex, the Koch brothers, the NRAall while proclaiming that they are pro-life, Butler also claims. They are anything but. They are the ones who thought that what George Zimmerman did was right.
TOPICS: Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: blackrage; god; professor; racism
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To: SeekAndFind
Their god is the god that wants to erase race.
Which was exactly what was supposed to happen during the civil rights movement of the 60s and exactly why MLK invoked God in his speeches. Instead, the idiot left will never let race go away.
They want to make themselves the eternal victims to distract people from realizing how utterly worthless they are.
To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
The detachment from reality is amazing. Why cant someone prominent have the balls to say, Enough with this BS about black boys being stalked and killed by whites. Do yourself of favor and look at some statistics instead of feeling sorry for yourself and making excuses for the conditions black people create for themselves. Your black boys are doing most of the killing in America, and that includes killing whites at forty times the rate that whites kill blacks. And I dont care if that truth offends you.
I quit the teaching profession the day after I saw a 4th grade black boy beat a younger white boy to a bloody pulp in a school hallway. There was NO punishment for the assailant. Not even a time out in the corner. If it went the other way around, the little white boy would be in prison. There have even been instances where black children have gotten away with putting white children into a COMA or into the GRAVE with no consequences. Just "kids being kids" supposedly...
Leftists are teaching black people from a very young age that they have the absolute right to do anything they want and to commit any crime they want. They also have the right to punish an entire race for perceived offenses. This is not going to end well at all.
To: SeekAndFind
How low do these Ivy League schools have to stoop to fill their “diversity” quotas? This woman is a moron. She “ain’t” got the good sense that that “racist, white god” gave a cantaloupe.
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07/17/2013 12:22:08 PM PDT
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EDINVA
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Poison Ivy League, my friend. Just like Princeton, Rutgers, Harvard, Yale, and MIT. Loaded with reds, socialists, hate-filled Black Studies professors, reparationists like Ogletree, Cone, etc., There used to be a time when you went to college to learn, to become a more educated and better person. Today it is to be haranged, denigrated if you are white, turned into a mindless, Marxist Obama Zombie, and a Democrat Party drone. The mind is a terrible thing to waste, but you are paying for that opportunity, folks. I find that community colleges are usually more patriotic, my practical in their education programs/degrees, and dont turn you minds to marxist mush (except in California where the only real requirement to teach in them is to be a mindless marxist/irredentist hatemonger/teacher). As for law schools, stamp many of them, Made in Moscow.
The math, science, and engineering departments at universities are still pretty conservative (although more libertarian than socially conservative). This is true at ivy league schools as well. You'll still find a confused leftist from time to time but mathematicians are by nature conductive to reasoned discourse....unless they suck at their job.
Thanks to Obamacare, medical schools are now approaching 99% libertarian and conservative.
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