Yes, You're a Racist -- And a Traitor | John E. Price

Yes, You're a Racist -- And a Traitor | John E. Price: The troglodyte that killed those people in South Carolina wanted to fire the opening shots in a new race war. He is a Confederate in every sense of the word. He is a white supremacist. He is a terrorist. He is a traitor.

trog·lo·dyte

[trog-luh-dahyt]

    NOUN

1.

a prehistoric cave dweller.

2.

a person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character.

3.

a person living in seclusion.

4.

a person unacquainted with affairs of the world.

5.

an animal living underground.

The worst part is that he is not some aberration. Oh, we want to comfort and assure ourselves that he is, that he has some mental issue, or that he's evil, or some other easy excuse that absolves us all of responsibility.

His actions were heinous, but he is the product of a media environment and culture that protects the ignorant and glorifies division. This is the "heritage" celebrated by those who fly the Confederate flag. By those like my neighbor.

And what about my neighbor? In a perfect world, I would ring his doorbell and have a reasonable discussion with him about how what he's doing is offensive and ahistoric and I'd love to correct his understanding of the entire mess. But the sad fact is, he's not alone, either.

In my time here I've seen scores of Confederate bumper stickers, license plates, and even other flags. Neo-Confederate revisionism is everywhere. It's not confined to "dumb rednecks" or red-state voters or Nascar fans or any other easy stereotype we use to deceive ourselves and dismiss painful realities. It's not even confined to older generations. The killer in South Carolina is 21. He's a Millennial. He's one of us.

And every day that we don't react to that information, every day we don't internalize this conflict, every day we tell ourselves nothing is wrong, every day we claim we can't be racist because we have black friends, every day we share some viral cat video instead of watch the news, every day we don't knock on our neighbor's door... is another day nothing will change.

I REALLY DO BELIEVE JESUS WAS NOT CLAIMING TO BE GOD.

INSTEAD...

CLAIMING TO BE THE SUM OF HIS PARENTS IN HIS FATHER'S ABSENCE;

THE ETERNAL FATHER BEING THE WISDOM OF JOSEPH 

THAT JOSEPH A SIMPLE HARD WORKING MAN ONLY SOMEONE,  OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART, WILLINGLY ACCEPTING THE ROLE OF BEING PARENTAL FATHER TO BOTH JESUS AND HIS MOTHER MARY; AN UNFORTUNATE TEENAGE PREGNANCY.  

THIS WISDOM FROM AN OLD MAN, JOSEPH, ABEL PASSING ONTO A CHILD BEFORE THE FATES OF BOTH JESUS AND HIS MOTHER MARY TOSSED TO THE WINDS; AGAIN ON THEIR OWN. 

JOSEPH...

 BEING THE ONE WHOM JESUS IS CREDITING AS THE ONE MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHAPING OF HIS MORAL CHARACTER;  WHOMEVER IT WAS BEING JESUS TRUE FATHER, THE ONE PROVIDING THE "Y" CHROMOSOME HAVING MADE HIM MALE,  NOT IMPORTANT.

ONCE...

 HAVING THIS VIEW OF JOSEPH, THIS NOW LEAVES JESUS ABEL BECOMING 

THE 

SON OF THE LIVING GOD...

HIS MOTHER MARY.

Matthew 16:13-20

New International Version 

(NIV)

Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah

13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
DIFFERENT WAY OF SAYING THE SAME THING:

BASTARD MAN-SON 12 y.o. thru HIS CRUCIFIXION.

The only good news about the McKinney pool party is the white kids’ response to racism - Vox

These kids decided addressing racism was their business

In the story of the Texas pool party, where a police officer was caught on tape manhandling and pointing a gun at young black teenagers, there's a lot to be concerned and outraged about. But there's also one tiny thing to celebrate: the actions of two white kids.

Just 14 and 15 years old, they wasted no time speaking on the record about the racist comments made by adults that they said set off the incident, and recording the discriminatory treatment they said they witnessed.

Sadly, when it comes to public opinion about the event, it's likely that these accounts have more weight coming from the white kids than from the black kids who have offered similar stories, but whom many media consumers might see as potential criminals and untrustworthy reporters of what happened.

Stone's choice to speak about the racist comments she witnessed, and Brooks's decision to post his recording and analysis on YouTube and give an interview about what he observed, represents an unusual commitment to honesty about racism and discrimination — topics many white adults don't see through the same lens.

For example, a November 2014 Pew poll revealed that nearly half of white Americans thought race got too much attention in the discussion surrounding 18-year-old Michael Brown's death at the hands of a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. When asked about confidence in police to not use excessive force on suspects, 36 percent of white respondents expressed a great deal of confidence, compared with 18 percent of black respondents.

And in October 2014, the Washington Post reported on an analysis of years of polling by Harvard University professor Michael I. Norton, who found that 56 percent of black people but only 16 percent of white people said they believed there was "a lot" of discrimination in America. White people were more likely than not to say they thought anti-white discrimination had become a bigger problem than bias against blacks.

"White silence = white consent."

When you consider the well-documented social, economic, and political injustices against black people that have been committed both with and without the backing of the legal system, this looks like willful ignorance, and it can be infuriating.

That's why when Walter Scott, a 50-year-old unarmed black man, was shot in the back and killed by Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, Tim Wise (a white author who focuses on anti-racism) wrote this on his public Facebook page in response to those who insisted race had nothing to do with the tragedy:

I know there are some well-meaning (as well as not well meaning) white folks who say how awful the killing of Walter Scott was "regardless of the racial element," but please... When we as white folks strip away the social context within which these things happen, or refuse to acknowledge the generations-long soul wound imposed by racism upon peoples of color, we speak as if history didn't happen, as if historical memory doesn't matter, as if every day is disconnected from the last, and patterns are irrelevant. We speak, in other words, as persons with the privilege of ignoring the backbeat of white supremacy, as persons who enjoy the luxury of viewing life as a collection of random experiences, and ourselves are mere individuals floating through that life. How nice. People of color have not the luxury of such a conceit ...

The only good news about the McKinney pool party is the white kids’ response to racism - Vox: