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Church Sign Generates Emotional Debate Over Race After Zimmerman Verdict
CBS Local ^ | 7/16/13 | cbs

Posted on 07/16/2013 11:11:07 AM PDT by Nachum

CHICAGO (CBS) – A sign posted outside a south suburban church is generating a powerful debate over race in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict.

The marquee outside the First Baptist Church of University Park earlier this week read: “It Is Safe To Kill Black People In Amerikkka.”

On Saturday, a jury of six women in Florida acquitted Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Several comments on the church’s Facebook page took issue with the reference to the Ku Klux Klan in the word Amerikkka, with many saying the church’s sign is hateful and divisive and implies that all white Americans are racist

The church responded by saying: “The message on the sign is not a message of hate. It is a message of awakening and call to action. It is a message not intended to divide, but to cause honest reflection in order to make this country a better place for ALL.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asscracker; blackrage; church; verdict; zimmerman
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To: TexasCajun

does this church have a class on Wal-Mart Rioting??


21 posted on 07/16/2013 11:59:52 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul in 2016)
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To: goosie
Pastor is: Reginald Williams who served under Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright as the Associate Pastor for Justice ministries. Hmmmm..

My post was correct.. a kook that served under the First PASTOR - the Kook J. Not-Wright!

22 posted on 07/16/2013 12:02:10 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul in 2016)
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23 posted on 07/16/2013 12:02:50 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Unless your religion is a religion of hate!

That would be called ISLAM!! ;-)

24 posted on 07/16/2013 12:03:31 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul in 2016)
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To: Nachum

Sounds like another commie lib, “creepy white cracka”-hating “church” to me.


25 posted on 07/16/2013 12:41:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Keep your powder dry.)
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To: Nachum

What would Jesus say...clearly this church is apostate.

This pastor prolly does not teach young black men if they fight like thugs they may be dead like thugs.


26 posted on 07/16/2013 1:05:16 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: MrB

“Maybe it’s just like using the “N” word...
“Killing black people is a black thing. We can do it. You can’t.””

You may be correct.

This whole thing sickens me. I have black friends who will no longer look me in the eye at church. And I can’t understand why they don’t understand. They were rational people a few weeks ago.


27 posted on 07/16/2013 1:23:24 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: MrB
it’s culturally acceptable to them to be violent to someone over an act of perceived 'disrespect". And we’re 'violating' that cultural right by holding them to a 'white' standard".

Excellent observation Mr B. I would guess that Big Al and Jessie could not assimilate such a thought.

28 posted on 07/16/2013 1:29:02 PM PDT by fuzzthatwuz
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To: TexasCajun

29 posted on 07/16/2013 1:33:29 PM PDT by haywoodwebb (Keep your focus on the TRUTH and we will prevail . . . One Day at a Time, Mates!)
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To: Nachum

The sad irony of it is that it is the exact opposite. It’s ok for negroes to kill crackas.


30 posted on 07/16/2013 1:37:23 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: Nachum

I suggest posting a prayer request at this church for them to pray for the ability to stop doing such things that are nothing more than incidiary & conterproductive.

http://fbc-up.org/prayer_requests.php


31 posted on 07/16/2013 1:37:26 PM PDT by flatliner (Pray)
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To: Nachum
Church Sign Generates Emotional Debate Over Race After Zimmerman Verdict

I really should pay more attention...I obviously missed the sign after the 532nd murder victim was laid to rest last year.

32 posted on 07/16/2013 1:37:28 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: All
When the left does it, the media says they "Generate Emotional Debate". When a conservative does it (Ted Nugent), the media says they are "providing ammunition to further stoke tensions".

See how they do that?

The media is evil.
33 posted on 07/16/2013 1:43:14 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Nachum

34 posted on 07/16/2013 1:46:43 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Nachum

Ah, another BLT (Black Liberation Theology) church.


35 posted on 07/16/2013 1:50:06 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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36 posted on 07/16/2013 2:00:21 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: haywoodwebb

Someone at WBC knows the meaning of “creep ass-cracker.”


37 posted on 07/16/2013 2:04:02 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: Nachum

It’s not hateful - okay, so then I guess you wouldn’t mind if down the block, at our church, we put up the sign “It’s not safe to attack White Ameriguns”


38 posted on 07/16/2013 2:14:14 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: ExCTCitizen
“It Is Safe To Kill Black People In Amerikkka.”

Sounds like the SSign waSS placed by the New Blackkk Panther Party who want to takkke over our KKKountry. (SS = Schutz Staffeln)

39 posted on 07/16/2013 2:14:26 PM PDT by imardmd1 (An armed society is a polite society -- but dangerous for the fool --)
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To: Nachum

Only one party used racial slurs during the conflict between George and Trayvon. That was Trayvon. He probably picked up the racist and violent ‘tude towards Crackers who look at him sideways from his family, school and church. Liberals really do want hate and violence between blacks and whites.

I hope they personally get what they want up close. When liberals get mugged, the racist violence they stoke, is not so cool anymore.


40 posted on 07/16/2013 2:51:17 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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