PlayALLtheGames
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Not surprising at all. I think if you asked every hardcore Christian in America, at least a third would say Jesus and the people around him back then were white. They truly believe that.
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Racist Black History Month essay shocks school
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real talk, I wrote with better quality when I was 7th/8th grade...
Alligatorjandro
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Why is anyone shocked? Racism is what America was built on.
Trump is probably going to have this taught in every school by the end of his presidency.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Also helps to warn young, naive minorities about the people around them.
Can't hide racism anyway
Sunster
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many Christians don't read most of the Bible.
Vital Tundra
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What blows me away is the belief that Jesus is white. Like what? Look at a fucking globe.
And is it wrong to say I wouldn't be at all upset if she gets beat up by a classmate?
Also she needs to take some English classes over, I mean whoof.
And is it wrong to say I wouldn't be at all upset if she gets beat up by a classmate?
Also she needs to take some English classes over, I mean whoof.
Lonewolf_92
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Trigonometrize.
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10 years from now when that girl is looking for a job she's gonna regret that this got to the internet and wasn't able to dealt with privately.
Imperfected
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That's what preachers are for. Designated readers.
(The insistence on not using a version with more modernized language, despite the fact that all English-language versions have already been translated and thus cannot by definition be more or less accurate or "sacred" than a version using modern English, also has a lot to do with it. There's really no reason to insist on the King James' version aside from discouraging individual study for the sake of maintaining a clergy class.)
Sunster
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In my experience with mass, priests have their own "top 40" of verses that they will refer to. Leaving out again, most of the bible.
The poor writing, the faulty logic... it's all just sort of self-confirming stupidity every time it happens.
Captin Quacker
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Why do they always have a minority friend
As tho that somehow make all the racist shit completely fine
As tho that somehow make all the racist shit completely fine
Big Baybee
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So this made it to Gaf, lol. Yea, it's fucked up.
MalcomiteX
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I say this as a Black man.
There are two likely responses to this:
1) Condemn this individual as the sick racist that they are and go about our day.
2) Acknowledge that these views are prevalent in the majority of society, and that this issue extends beyond any individual.
I choose to follow the latter way of thinking. I'm sick to death of this type of crazy overt racism being pushed as the face of anti-black racism by both the right and left. The reality is that in America (and globally) we are implicitly and explicitly socialized to attribute many of the views expressed by this person to Black peoples. Look within yourselves and you'll realize that; one has to ask themself, why it is that they fear Black men in particular.....even the most leftist millennial white women will clutch their bags at the sight of a Black man.
There are two likely responses to this:
1) Condemn this individual as the sick racist that they are and go about our day.
2) Acknowledge that these views are prevalent in the majority of society, and that this issue extends beyond any individual.
I choose to follow the latter way of thinking. I'm sick to death of this type of crazy overt racism being pushed as the face of anti-black racism by both the right and left. The reality is that in America (and globally) we are implicitly and explicitly socialized to attribute many of the views expressed by this person to Black peoples. Look within yourselves and you'll realize that; one has to ask themself, why it is that they fear Black men in particular.....even the most leftist millennial white women will clutch their bags at the sight of a Black man.
#NotYourShield
AtomskEater
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Putting aside that she don't know jack shit about jack shit, this is one reason why I think representation in media definitely matters. People can get twisted views when 99% of the things they read and watch is only about and starring white people, and whiteness is treated as a default so even if they aren't sure they assume.
Then again the number of people who didn't notice Rue was black despite a sentence saying as much makes me think a lot of it is issues with literacy.
The Artisan
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the kid was definitely not "sad to say" any of this shit.
"i am not fully racist" you either are mothafucker, or you're not.
"i am not fully racist" you either are mothafucker, or you're not.
Racism is fine, you just can't be a racist
Thelonelykoopa
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Technically Jesus wasnt even human at this point and this description is more indictive of how people at this time imagine a powerful divine being to look like that is just like the angels of Judaism ..eldritch abominationesk.
Sunster
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Hermione Granger is another great example.
I'd say it's closer to all.
Imperfected
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Pretty much. Making the Bible largely inaccessible to a casual reader and intentionally vague allows priests to pick and choose parts of it that support their own hot take on morality, and the resulting congregations create these pockets of warped Christianity where it seems like no one's ever heard of charity or tolerance or selflessness.
And, unfortunately, it's probably too late to undo that damage. You can't push a modern-readable printing of the Bible without having these extant groups violently oppose it on the grounds that you're "profaning the Holy Word" or "politicizing the faith", even though all you're trying to do is make sure people understand what "Lucifer" is referring to when used in a sentence.
I'm dying
timetokill
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Normally people say they're "not racist" but then say something that is Diet Racist.
This person basically claimed to be Diet Racist, then said something that is Mountain Dew GAMEFUEL Double-XP racism.
This person basically claimed to be Diet Racist, then said something that is Mountain Dew GAMEFUEL Double-XP racism.
Hope they expelled her.
All this is textbook racist.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
All this is textbook racist.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
or that he had hair like wool.
I don' t blame her for that. I also believed that ''Jesus'' was a blue eyed , light brown hair man. I think it's way too late to ''redesign'' him. Couldn't even give him a tan ffs.
I blame the church for pushing the stereotypical image of Jesus down everyone's throats so much that that's all they know of him.
Zantetsuken
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Part of the problem is that all these kids hear about is King Jr. Also, racism in Louisiana? I doubt it shocked the school.
Catholic high school, huh? The "everyone in the Bible was white" stuff almost definitely comes from the parents or a "white by default" mindset, but I'd be curious to know if that ever came up in any Catechism classes.
Also, I know it isn't out of the ordinary anymore, but it's still weird to me when some dumb shit a kid does becomes national news because it went viral.
Also, I know it isn't out of the ordinary anymore, but it's still weird to me when some dumb shit a kid does becomes national news because it went viral.
Assuming this is an uninformed assertion, you would be surprised. Perfectly sane parents can end up with skinheads and killers for children.
The school aren't the ones who wrote the essay.
BobTheFork
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"A-HA, ALMOST completely racist, is still slightly unprejudiced"
PeakPointMatrix
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Her Cabinet Position acceptance letter is in the mail.
This is unfair to demons, some of whom are rather thoughtful, albeit evil.
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