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Are White Christian Racists?
Here we have a main stream media(NBC) systematically attacking White Christians as being racists!
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For example, surveys conducted by PRRI in 2018 found that white Christians — including evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics — are nearly twice as likely as religiously unaffiliated whites to say the killings of Black men by police are isolated incidents rather than part of a pattern of how police treat African Americans.
And white Christians are about 30 percentage points more likely to say monuments to Confederate soldiers are symbols of Southern pride rather than symbols of racism. White Christians are also about 20 percentage points more likely to disagree with this statement: "Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for Blacks to work their way out of the lower class." And these trends generally persist even in the wake of the recent protests for racial justice.
To question 1.
Blacks are killed by police at a rate approximately proportionate to their involvement in crimes as compared to whites. Therefore, statistics tell us that these killings are not necessarily part of a pattern, rather an expected result of police interaction. Stating this is determined to be racist by the author, yet is not racist in any fashion, merely the results of a reading of the facts.
To question 2.
Monuments to Confederate soldiers are monuments to individual men who were engaged in the protection of their new country from an invading force consisting of men from the old country. The States that seceded did so mainly to prevent the abolition of slavery. This is true. The war, however, was instigated by the remaining United States to force these people back under the boot of a government they had rejected. It is not black and white as many want to believe. There were many honorable men who fought for their freedom during that war, and while racial attitudes on both sides of the conflict were quite different than we find acceptable today, it was little different than defending the colonies from British attacks 80 odd years earlier. The historical problem these men face is that they were on the losing side. There is much to be learned from an honest evaluation of the secession of the Confederate States. Hiding the truth by the destruction of that history, and painting all on the losing side as evil stifles thought and misses the greater lessons that can be learned from the conflict.
To question 3.
While it is true that it is more difficult for some blacks to work their way out of the lower classes today than it is for whites in general, it is legitimate to discuss whether generations of slavery and discrimination are holding them back today. It is legitimate to look at the past 60 years where institutional discrimination has been virtually eliminated and structural discrimination is almost non-existent. Individual racism exists. It always will, but it is not racist to consider whether the current cultural and societal norms held by a small percentage of blacks is what is holding them back individually, and making it more difficult for the the greater population.
I assume the author presented what he thought were his most damning questions in the article, and would be curious as to the other 12. From my standpoint, I fail to see how his subjective interpretation of the answers he received to these three makes a cast for systemic White Christian racism.
Brad Steele
DemocRATs and blacks.
With either? They your part of the 2-faced lying rat insanity.
Look at that fat d-rat slob Nadler say the violence is hype.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/27/jerry-nadler-calls-violence-from-antifa-in-portland-a-myth/
Another news item the rats are ignoring because it one of their POS constituants.
https://people.com/crime/florida-boy-hid-intruder-beat-family-members-death-baseball-bat/
Destroy the commie rats and their sick criminal constituants by every legal means.
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