Don't Be A Tool - Racism of the "Christian" Right
by Autumn Pickard - MetroEast NEWS
I'm astonished by the complete lack of respect to the black community from the GOP. I remember what my parents would tell me about black people, and the blatant racism they had towards them. I was raised in a "christian" fundamentalist home, but I was lied to. I'm still Christian, don't get me wrong, but at the same time I realized if they could lie to me about an entire race of people, they could also be lying about the group I belong to as well. I don't talk to my family anymore, and I think my life is better because of that. I have friends that have become my family. A beautiful rainbow spectrum of friends, some are very comfortable with labels, some wouldn't fit into a category if it was named after them, but I don't judge them because of it.
Getting back to my point though. Conservative right wing fanatical "christians" are afraid of black people in a general sense. Since they can't own, and therefore dictate someone who is different from them, they respond with fear that turns into hatred.Being transsexual I have dealt with this my whole life, so it isn't new. I think it's a sad excuse for ignorance, and being unwilling to attempt to learn about different communities that exist in a wonderful melting pot society we call America. I haven't given up on my brothers and sisters that happen to be darker than me. I hope one day they will wake up and see their oppression of the LGBT community will never result in their acceptance within the bigoted white community, or safety from being the oppressed. To them the only function you are providing is proving whom they fear can remain repressed, and as soon as they square away the LGBT community, they will start to work on yours again.
We are victims of a reversed timeline of hate. Black people will be needed to repress women, but as soon as my sisters are silenced along with the LGBT, my brothers will be to small a group to fight back. You see, we weren't all free, or were freed at once, so they will chip away at the base until the whole notion of freedom is only a rich white man's guarantee to a rich white man.... This method of hate was first used by Adolf Hitler, and it is proven to work, well.
BellevillePride~ MetroEast News
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