Posted on 08/03/2014 4:21:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For white America, confronting its own racism is a lot like attitudes surrounding the virus that can lead to AIDS.
Witnessing the death of Eric Garner, at the hands of uniformed police in New York City, got me to thinking about racism in America. This African-American man was confronted by police for selling single, probably-untaxed, cigarettes on the street. When the man resisted, he was held in a chokehold a practice deemed unlawful for over 20 years which was horrifyingly caught on tape. The man was obese and carried no firearm, yet he was wrestled to the ground and held in the chokehold, despite his saying seven times, I cant breathe! He was pronounced dead at the scene, and since then, his death has been ruled a homicide (meaning that his death was caused by the chokehold, rather than a number of other physical maladies which afflicted him, among them asthma and diabetes). I couldnt help but wonder whether or not this man would have ever been stopped, were it not for his race.
We white Americans all-too-seldom reflect upon the issue of racism, because we dont have to. We dont have to think about it, because the system is set up to benefit us, at the expense of people of color, without our ever doing anything mean or unkind, so it is very easy never to even notice how life is for someone not in our majority....
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Does this mean racism will only end when we can get most of Hollywood to raise a ton of money to help us?
But he is a bishop. A Bishop of an apostate pagan religion.
Tired words from a failed philosophy.
Shove it up your collective Hillaryholes, libs.
Nutcase title.
Oh Little Genie is so much more than that. He’s an alcoholic homosexual who divorced his wife, walked out on his kids, married his gay lover and became the first gay bishop in ECUSA.
Of course, now he is also divorced from his gay “partner”.
“”It is time to share with you, our diocesan family, that my partner and husband of 25+ years, Mark, and I have decided to be divorced.”
“We dont have to think about it”
Impossible not to think about it because the colostomist libs never SHUT UP about it.
I hate to nit pick, but the word married should always have quotation marks when referring to poofs and their “marriage”.
Seems someone has an inferiority complex. These racists tend to think just being white is a position of unwarranted dominance.
How does this guy know what is going through the officer’s mind and what proof does he have that the officer’s thoughts are racist. It seems to me that the author is the racist.
Replace “white” with “Jew” and it is like reading Mein Kampf
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