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    Want to stop racism?

    What I love about kids is that they are innocent and imaginative and do not care about skin color. That changes with what is taught either by parents or the system.

    If you want to stop racism, quit referring to the skin color of people you talk about. Literally everyone does it. A black guy talking about someone else refers to the person's race. A white person talking about someone else refers to the persons race. I hear it all the time from both white and black people.

    This is something I learned in the early 70's by a person raised in Arkansas that was raised to think the n-word was normally how you referred to black people. She was a thinking and empathetic person and was mortified to learn that it was considered to be a slur. She also taught me to be empathetic to anyone that was not considered to be, at that time, normal like those that were gay. This is a woman that was not considered to be educated as we think of education today but she taught me humility. I won't forget as she babysat our black friends kids how people would drive by and asked if she was married to a n____r. That, of course, is just pure ignorance but she was and still is a gem. I do think she represents a lot of us in that regard. You don't have to be educated to be socially intelligent in fact I sometimes believe that education blunts natural intelligence especially nowadays with racial indoctrination.

    That fact is, if people stop referring to other people by race, racism recedes.
    When Donald Trump said to protest “peacefully”, he meant violence.

    When he told protesters to “go home”, he meant stay for an insurrection.

    And when he told Brad Raffensperger to implement “whatever the correct legal remedy is”, he meant fraud.

    War is peace.

    Freedom is slavery.

    Ignorance is strength.

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    That's pretty easy, teach children the biblical truth that we all came from the same people. There is no one here today that some of their ancestors didn't have black, white, brown, red, yellow skin. Even if it's far away. Only one real race, the human race. Except some humans become reprobate with severed brains that the LORD rejects. Maybe she should have taught this. Romans 1.

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    You guys live in deep lalaland. Hasn't Christianity been around a long long long time and you know racism didn't disappear did it? Race is a myth, but humans are not intelligent enough to know that.

    'White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity'

    "Why didn't white Christians show up?" he recalled wondering. To his dismay, Cross learned that many of the people in the white mob were regular churchgoers. In the years that followed, he made it part of his ministry to educate his fellow Christians about the attack and prompt them to reflect on its meaning."

    https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/88311...s-christianity

    James Baldwin: ‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

    https://lithub.com/james-baldwin-i-c...ont-accept-me/


    'To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.'

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    You guys live in deep lalaland. Hasn't Christianity been around a long long long time and you know racism didn't disappear did it? Race is a myth, but humans are not intelligent enough to know that.

    'White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity'

    "Why didn't white Christians show up?" he recalled wondering. To his dismay, Cross learned that many of the people in the white mob were regular churchgoers. In the years that followed, he made it part of his ministry to educate his fellow Christians about the attack and prompt them to reflect on its meaning."

    https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/88311...s-christianity

    James Baldwin: ‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

    https://lithub.com/james-baldwin-i-c...ont-accept-me/


    'To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.'

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...htmare/612457/


    "...One did not have to be very bright to realize how little one could do to change one’s situation; one did not have to be abnormally sensitive to be worn down to a cutting edge by the incessant and gratuitous humiliation and danger one encountered every working day, all day long. The humiliation did not apply merely to working days, or workers; I was thirteen and was crossing Fifth Avenue on my way to the Forty-second Street library, and the cop in the middle of the street muttered as I passed him, “Why don’t you $#@!s stay uptown where you belong?” When I was ten, and didn’t look, certainly, any older, two policemen amused themselves with me by frisking me, making comic (and terrifying) speculations concerning my ancestry and probable sexual prowess, and, for good measure, leaving me flat on my back in one of Harlem’s empty lots. Just before and then during the Second World War, many of my friends fled into the service, all to be changed there, and rarely for the better, many to be ruined, and many to die. Others fled to other states and cities—that is, to other ghettos. Some went on wine or whiskey or the needle, and are still on it. And others, like me, fled into the church." James Baldwin
    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...ion-in-my-mind

    "To be a $#@! in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." James A. Baldwin
    I never mentioned Christianity but thanks for the example of rage over a suggestion to stop racism.
    When Donald Trump said to protest “peacefully”, he meant violence.

    When he told protesters to “go home”, he meant stay for an insurrection.

    And when he told Brad Raffensperger to implement “whatever the correct legal remedy is”, he meant fraud.

    War is peace.

    Freedom is slavery.

    Ignorance is strength.

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    You guys live in deep lalaland. Hasn't Christianity been around a long long long time and you know racism didn't disappear did it? Race is a myth, but humans are not intelligent enough to know that.

    'White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity'

    "Why didn't white Christians show up?" he recalled wondering. To his dismay, Cross learned that many of the people in the white mob were regular churchgoers. In the years that followed, he made it part of his ministry to educate his fellow Christians about the attack and prompt them to reflect on its meaning."

    https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/88311...s-christianity

    James Baldwin: ‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’

    https://lithub.com/james-baldwin-i-c...ont-accept-me/


    'To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.'

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...htmare/612457/


    "...One did not have to be very bright to realize how little one could do to change one’s situation; one did not have to be abnormally sensitive to be worn down to a cutting edge by the incessant and gratuitous humiliation and danger one encountered every working day, all day long. The humiliation did not apply merely to working days, or workers; I was thirteen and was crossing Fifth Avenue on my way to the Forty-second Street library, and the cop in the middle of the street muttered as I passed him, “Why don’t you $#@!s stay uptown where you belong?” When I was ten, and didn’t look, certainly, any older, two policemen amused themselves with me by frisking me, making comic (and terrifying) speculations concerning my ancestry and probable sexual prowess, and, for good measure, leaving me flat on my back in one of Harlem’s empty lots. Just before and then during the Second World War, many of my friends fled into the service, all to be changed there, and rarely for the better, many to be ruined, and many to die. Others fled to other states and cities—that is, to other ghettos. Some went on wine or whiskey or the needle, and are still on it. And others, like me, fled into the church." James Baldwin
    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...ion-in-my-mind

    "To be a $#@! in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." James A. Baldwin
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