Monday, August 22, 2005
The Only People Keeping Racism Alive...
...are those that claim to fight against it. In this case, it's the NYTimes.
It is not news that older people may still harbor racist thoughts, nor is it news that there is a racist history in this country. Finally, conflict amongst people of differing races is not definitionally "racist." Anytime a big institution moves into a small town there is conflict -- like say Wal-Mart. Is that a racist conflict?
"I have a dream, that one day a man will be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin." Why is it the liberals are the ones that keep pointing to skin color?
"Blackest Land, Whitest People." Until the mid-1960's, those words were painted on the water tower and on a sign near the square in this North Texas town, a once-segregated cotton-ginning center. Joe A. Bobbitt, the county judge in Greenville, still has photographs of the water tower and the sign on the wall of his office here.Note they have to go back to the 1960's to find institutional racism. And then, later in the story they quote people 69 and 72 years old, and they unsurprisingly speak with racist overtones - viola', they have a potential conflict.
"It's part of our infamy," said Judge Bobbitt, 59, seated in a large red leather chair stitched together by inmates of the Texas penal system. "If you try to hide history, then you cannot change."
The people of Hunt County, a largely rural area of which Greenville is the county seat, are about to get a rare opportunity to break with the past. The Redeemed Christian Church of God is a fast-growing evangelical church with mostly black adherents but that espouses a multicultural mission. Founded in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1952, it is building its North American headquarters on the outskirts of Greenville.
It is not news that older people may still harbor racist thoughts, nor is it news that there is a racist history in this country. Finally, conflict amongst people of differing races is not definitionally "racist." Anytime a big institution moves into a small town there is conflict -- like say Wal-Mart. Is that a racist conflict?
"I have a dream, that one day a man will be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin." Why is it the liberals are the ones that keep pointing to skin color?
