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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrending on Twitter. "White Blessing", pastor describes "The Blessing of Slavery":
"The blessing of slavery"?Seriously, WTF?
Link to tweet
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)patphil
(6,284 posts)Blessed to death.
bullwinkle428
(20,632 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention#Divisions_over_slavery
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,526 posts)It's not an interpretation.
It excuses alot of sociopath behavior and the god of the bible is. Abusive.
That's why I hate the Christian religion.
Because I hate sociopathy.
Maeve
(42,343 posts)PCIntern
(25,709 posts)just say what these people thank and couch in such peculiar phraseology.
By the way, for you younger folks, go to an archive and find the Playboy interview with George Lincoln Rockwell which was remarkable. The interviewer, believe it or not, was Alex Haley. The beginning of the interview might be the most remarkable piece of fascinating racism I have ever read or seen. Rockwell Had a gun on the table between them.
keithbvadu2
(37,175 posts)KKK Conservative boasting:
We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven million is nothing.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article167939222.html
dalton99a
(81,818 posts)I called Rockwell at his Arlington, Virginia, headquarters and relayed Playboys request for an exclusive interview. After assuring himself that I wasnt Jewish, he guardedly agreed. I didnt tell him I was a Negro. Five days later, as my taxi pulled up in front of Rockwells International Headquarters, a nine-room white frame house in Arlington (since padlocked by the Internal Revenue Service, which is currently investigating the labyrinth of Nazi financial backing), I noticed a billboard-sized sign on the roof reading: White Man FightSmash the Black Revolution! I couldnt help wondering what kind of welcome Id receive when they got a look at my non-Aryan complexion. I didnt have long to wait; the khaki-clad duty guard at the door stiffened as I stepped out of the cab and up the front stairs. When I identified myself, he ushered me uncertainly inside and told me to wait nearby in what he called the shrine room, a small, black-walled chamber dimly lit by flickering red candles and adorned with American and Nazi flags, adjoining portraits of Adolf Hitler and George Washington, and a slightly larger, rather idealized painting of Rockwell himselfa self-portrait. On the table beside my chair sat a crudely bound and printed copy of Rockwells self-published autobiography, This Time the World; I was leafing through it when a pair of uniformed storm troopers loomed suddenly in the doorway, gave the Nazi salute and informed me coolly that Commander Rockwell had ordered them to take me in one of the Party staff cars to his nearby personal headquarters. ...
Rockwell: Good. Just so we both know where we stand, Id like to make something else crystal clear before we begin. Im going to be honest and direct with you. Youre here in your professional capacity; Im here in my professional capacity. While here, youll be treated wellbut I see youre a black interviewer. Its nothing personal, but I want you to understand that I dont mix with your kind, and we call your race niggers.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,586 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,238 posts)I did not get it.
Holy hell.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)could finally afford cheap mattresses stuffed with human hair"
area51
(11,952 posts)Solly Mack
(90,837 posts)Racism - slavery is rooted in white supremacy and that's racism - is a blessing from god.
And, golly, how can a christian argue with a blessing from god?
It's not a privilege. It's a blessing. Privilege sounds negative to him. Blessing sounds, what? Less like white supremacy/racism?
Crucifixion bad. Salvation good. Because god so loved the world. A blessing.
Slavery bad. All the benefits going to white people good. A blessing. Because god so loved white people?
The story goes jesus went willingly to his death.
Black people didn't go willingly into slavery.
And they for damn sure didn't get a 3rd day reprieve.
WTF, Asswipes? WTF?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)for the people that own them.
Some people just focus on the 'slavery' part.
So negative!
We really mustn't forget that slaves, like, 'do stuff' for their owners. Provide benefit to them!
Good, right?
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