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In reply to the discussion: 7-year-old girl killed after white man pulls alongside black family's car and opens fire [View all]Lonestarblue
(9,977 posts)Far too many people like to claim that the US is a Christian nation, but it is not. I have seen nothing in the Bible that proclaims white people to be superior to everyone else on the planet or that urges hatred and ill treatment of people of color or those who are different from white people. The closest excuse is that the curse of Ham means that black people are inferior servants to white people (a claim disputed by Biblical scholars). Indeed, the whole doctrine of Christianity is based on a Jewish man, most likely with the same brown features as others in the Middle East, not the blue-eyed blonde many Christians like to follow.
Racism is getting worse here and around the world. We need to somehow change the story, which will not happen until Trump is out of office. Even then, racism may just go underground again. Perhaps we need a course in schools on the origins and purposes of racial bias and how damaging it is to a free society.