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		By: StevoR		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/12/something-about-politics-and-r/#comment-491868</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I agree with what Daniel Fincke writes here :

http://freethoughtblogs.com/camelswithhammers/2012/03/12/you-glance-out-your-window-and-see-a-shackled-black-slave-and-a-slavery-justifying-bible-verse-what-do-you-think/

&lt;blockquote&gt; ..now, non-African American readers, letâ??s engage in just a bit of empathy. Imagine you are a black American. Zooming down the highway barely processing what you are seeing, you briefly glimpse a Bible verse justifying slavery paired with a symbol of your ancestorsâ?? systematic brutalization, dehumanization, and oppression. &lt;i&gt;Your&lt;/i&gt; panicked thought as you are jolted and suddenly think some racist fringe group is putting up billboards promoting slavery is that you are being &lt;i&gt;threatened&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;targeted&lt;/i&gt;, and that the racism you endure personally and see growing on the national stage is escalating. Your thought is probably something like, &lt;i&gt;Holy Shit! The racist backlash to Obamaâ??s presidency and to illegal immigration and the racism I encounter on a regular basis in my town and the local racism all over the local news is now culminating in billboards advocating a return to slavery!&lt;/i&gt;


And then it turns out that it was just that the American Atheistsâ??those predominantly white, know-it-all obnoxious people bashing the religion which probably forms a significant part of your identity â?? were just taking Bible verses â??out of contextâ? to try to change your whole worldview. That terrorizing scare they carelessly gave you by â??ironicallyâ? threatening you with an appeal to the Bible and a depiction of your enslavement was just an attempt to get you to change your hermeneutics!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That kinda says it all.

(Italics original, any botching up of things mine.)

I freely admit it is hard to imagine oneself as black skinned and, no doubt, I cannot fully do so accurately.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with what Daniel Fincke writes here :</p>
<p><a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/camelswithhammers/2012/03/12/you-glance-out-your-window-and-see-a-shackled-black-slave-and-a-slavery-justifying-bible-verse-what-do-you-think/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://freethoughtblogs.com/camelswithhammers/2012/03/12/you-glance-out-your-window-and-see-a-shackled-black-slave-and-a-slavery-justifying-bible-verse-what-do-you-think/</a></p>
<blockquote><p> ..now, non-African American readers, letâ??s engage in just a bit of empathy. Imagine you are a black American. Zooming down the highway barely processing what you are seeing, you briefly glimpse a Bible verse justifying slavery paired with a symbol of your ancestorsâ?? systematic brutalization, dehumanization, and oppression. <i>Your</i> panicked thought as you are jolted and suddenly think some racist fringe group is putting up billboards promoting slavery is that you are being <i>threatened</i> and <i>targeted</i>, and that the racism you endure personally and see growing on the national stage is escalating. Your thought is probably something like, <i>Holy Shit! The racist backlash to Obamaâ??s presidency and to illegal immigration and the racism I encounter on a regular basis in my town and the local racism all over the local news is now culminating in billboards advocating a return to slavery!</i></p>
<p>And then it turns out that it was just that the American Atheistsâ??those predominantly white, know-it-all obnoxious people bashing the religion which probably forms a significant part of your identity â?? were just taking Bible verses â??out of contextâ? to try to change your whole worldview. That terrorizing scare they carelessly gave you by â??ironicallyâ? threatening you with an appeal to the Bible and a depiction of your enslavement was just an attempt to get you to change your hermeneutics!</p></blockquote>
<p>That kinda says it all.</p>
<p>(Italics original, any botching up of things mine.)</p>
<p>I freely admit it is hard to imagine oneself as black skinned and, no doubt, I cannot fully do so accurately.</p>
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		By: Phil		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/12/something-about-politics-and-r/#comment-491867</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What I notice is that non white commentators are very rarely used on TV except to comment on issues relating to race. How many Asian sports commentators are there? Indian Americans? ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I notice is that non white commentators are very rarely used on TV except to comment on issues relating to race. How many Asian sports commentators are there? Indian Americans? </p>
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