That is fvcking ridiculous. The only reason why an enslaved person would reject freedom is because as soon as s/he stepped off the plantation they’d be killed by some other racist. If what you say was even remotely true, there would have been scores of white people lining up on plantations to get a piece of that “cushy” lifestyle, rather having to toil through the challenges of freedom. Nope, didn’t happen that way. Fvcking grow up
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Jesus, First of His Name
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People that see racism as simply a personal issue have a get-out-of-jail-free card, because they can claim themselves and their kin as “not racist” and move on unfettered. The moment it is identified as an institutional issue they are forced to act or be deemed racist themselves, something they cannot square.
The most religious people I know are also the most racist, though they would deny that vehemently. And yet, in their talk and their actions they clearly see race and change their behaviour because of it.
I don’t mean this as an indictment of all people of faith, but those people I know where race is clearly an issue are members of deeply conservative religious sects of Christianity. One is concerned I don’t own a gun to protect myself from “those” people. If I called him on it he’d deny his prejudice and I think he’s convinced himself that he’s not. Worst case he drives the conclusion down deep, not allowing it to surface for fear of how it would affect him. But it’s there, and as long as he can say somebody else is the problem he can move on without acting.
I think that is the fundamental reason SBC denies the institutional aspect of racism. It allows them to maintain the status quo, where their membership is heavily favored.
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Got in big trouble in freshman year of high school when I attended a Xaverian school (left it for public school the next year because it was AWFUL haha) when I decided to describe Deuteronomy as the “who-fucked-who chapter” that formed the foundation of judeo-christian obsession with controlling peoples’ sexual behavior.
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I’m still caught on the fact that if we’re all descended from Adam and Eve, we’re all the product of incest…
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It’s a slightly more erudite form of the “few bad apples” rationalization that allows racism to fester within the ‘bushel’ of the institution or society. The other slippery slope is that they don’t talk about how they benefit from the results of the racism whether they’re actively racist or not so doing nothing is tacit support for the status quo and their consequent privilege.
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Hey bud! I got a job for you! I have a 150 yard well line that needs to be dug out and replaced, and you can sleep in the back shed as payment!
You in?
Is it really incest though? It’s more like some weird form of cosmic mitosis. Maybe explains America’s obsession with women needing to be so skinny you can see their ribs though…
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Took even longer to “clarify” that Coke and Pepsi were OK.
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I could be mistaken or out-of-date, but I believe the ruling was that caffeinated sodas are up to the individual’s own conscience. So, more or less just decriminalization rather than full legalization.
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Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx. I gotta do some reading on the history of the NYC restrictive covenants and zoning laws. I own Daniel Karatzas’ book on Jackson Heights and it is around somewhere. Sam Lefrak was Fred Trump’s big competition in the white rental market, but he gets to slide on the discrimination that Trump always gets blamed for. I find it inconceivable that his organization did not also practice discrimination in refusing to rent to black and latinos, then principally Puerto Ricans.
In his later years, Sam Lefrak decided to change his last name to Le Frak, pronounced in the French manner. I know because my office sued Lefrak in the late 80s and in Court his attorneys made a big show of using the French pronunciation.
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Though, in the midst of all those begats, the first woman mentioned after Eve is Sarai, so it’s a little hard to trace the maternal lineage of any of the chaps. Reading it without the preconceived notions that typically come along with it, there clearly seemed to be other peoples populating the Earth that weren’t of Adam and Eve’s line and they seem like they were marrying into those families.
The Bible/Torah gets squirrelly on the details when Yahweh is making that awkward transition from tribal god to The God. Before that, Moloch and Co. were all just as legitimate as Yahweh, but only for that other tribe. It’s clear to me that some of the early chapters aren’t describing Moloch as a “false” god, just a rival one. It was only after the Canaanites decided that they were the one true people that they had to go back and rewrite* the stories a bit. (ETA: They were the Tudors of their day.)
* though writing was still a little ways out at the time.
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If it was ok for Game of Thrones, its ok for us… 
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Incest or auto-cannibalism? I loves me some ribs.
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I’ve read a bit about Daniel Karatzas’ book but will have to give it a look.
Sam Lefrak did essentially what the Trump family did. When there was anti German sentiment during both world wars they claimed that they were Swede. I guess enough people bought into it.
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Hah - I have read all the Game of Thrones books. They are pretty ponderous but they’re comic books for entertainment value compared to the bible
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At least they stuck with dragons, didn’t go totally fantasy world with people hanging out inside whales or parting seas with a staff or walking on water.
But I will give you that there’s a hell of a lot of interesting pornography in both, but Sodom and Gomorrah probably takes the prize, slightly.
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Hey, give us a good manager, staff with the appropriate skill sets, processes and resources, I’m sure they could part a few seas. Now, the whole “whales” things, I’ll admit, was a bit of a stretch, and the “walking on water” was probably just to distract from the “hey, he has holes in his feet!” thing…
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I trust you’re being ironic here
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It’s with Cain and Abel and their sisters the incest comes in.
@sniffit too
Now, the whole “whales” things, I’ll admit, was a bit of a stretch
And yet…
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