Racism Is White America’s HIV

The Daily Beast ^ | August 3, 2014 | Bishop Gene Robinson (Retired)

[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 can’t 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 couldn’t 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 don’t have to. We don’t 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....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Got it?

[trisham]

"..only Spartan women give birth to real men"

Thank God for the real men who founded this country,
and for the real men who continue to sustain it

Please join the 300 by donating $100

[freeangel]

What a load!

[God luvs America]

Race Hustling is black America’s crutch....

[RightGeek]

Is this fruitcake still around? I thought his 15 minutes of fame were up.

[Travis McGee]

He’ll be one of the first to be eaten, shouting, “But I’m on your side!” to his last breath.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bishop Robinson is whiter than white. You might remember that he was the first openly homosexual bishop for his denomination.

[Texas Eagle]

How did the NYPD get to be filled with so many racists? Who’s been running that city? Rush Limbaugh? Sean Hannity? Sarah Palin?

[Westbrook]

Gene Robninson is the Episcopalian “priest” from NH who divorced his wife to “marry” his boyfriend.

It is safe to assume that everything out of this coprophage’s mouth is crap.

[Feckless]

"When the man resisted..."

So, being smart enough to comply with Law Enforcement Officers instructions and using "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" is RACIST?

Uyghur, PLEASE!

[ReformationFan]

He’s also a big supporter of Planned Parenthood which specifically targets predominantly black neighborhoods.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why is a homosexual lecturing us, using HIV analogies? Doesn’t that hit too close to home for a member of the homosexual community?????

[4Liberty]

[2ndDivisionVet]

[niteowl77]

Vickie (Gene) Robinson is an two-for-one hater- he thinks white heterosexuals are scum because they are homophobes AND racists.

Mr. niteowl77

[caveat emptor]

Interesting choice of words. No doubt he knows a thing or two about HIV.

[trisham]

[Morpheus2009]

If a person is a racist, they can fix that. Prejudice is a treatable, even curable part of the human condition, real hatred is where you treat prejudice as a person’s inherent characteristic. That’s very bigoted.

[sportutegrl]

This guy wants to ride his hobbyhorse. I'm gonna ride mine: This murder by the police was not racism, it was anti-free enterprise. This guy was just trying to make a living, and he was harrassed by "the man" for not giving the government mafia their cut. The Police State is now officially a criminal enterprise.