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Religious Racism: Texas Church Argues There's a Biblical Precedent for Strict Racial Segregation

"The curse of Ham,” an old-time Biblical (mis)interpretation used to vilify black people and justify slavery and laws against racial intermarriage, is still alive and spreading bigotry in the United States. The Appleby Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, is among this country’s scattered, independent fundamentalist churches still openly promoting the idea that the Biblical Noah pronounced a curse on descendants of his son, Ham. Ham had sexually molested Noah as he slept in a drunken stupor, and Noah realized it, the story goes. The curse ultimately fell on Canaan, Noah’s grandson, whose descendants were black and fated to be an underclass of slaves, according to this version of the Bible, which has been widely discredited by mainstream religious scholars.

But the canard is trumpeted loud and clear in an online statement of conviction by Appleby leaders. The East Texas church, 90 miles from Shreveport, La., proclaims a litany of racist beliefs on its website: The black descendants of Ham like fair-skinned women, of course. And “the proof of the presence of God among the Israelites was the absence of the black skinned folk of Canaan … It is obvious God is a separator, not a mixer. It is God who set the boundaries.”

And who’s in favor of the races mixing? The church knows: “Satan wants to eliminate color by interracial marriages. Someone will ask why do we have to see color when we look at one another? Why can’t we just see each other as people? The same reason you see a Poodle, German Shepherd, Beagle, etc. God made us different and set the bounds. You don’t get thoroughbreds by taking the fences down. You get thoroughbreds by putting the fences up.” http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/religious-racism-texas-churc
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I won't post the rest, you can read it for yourself, if your stomach is strong enough and you actually have the inclination...

God bless America, where racism is dead, right?

Then, of course, there's this guy:

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No matter how hard Republicans try and expand their voter base to be more inclusive of minority groups, it seems like there’s always someone in the ranks stepping up to botch the effort.

On April 17, Oklahoma House Majority Leader Dennis Johnson used his time during a floor debate to discuss effective strategies for small business owners.

There’s such a thing called “niche marketing,” he began. “You find out what you do better than somebody else and that’s what you market.

So far, so good? Seems that way.

“Then you get the reward of success. People come back to you,” he continued. “They like the service they get, and they don’t ask me—they might try to Jew me down on a price, that’s fine. You know what? That’s free market as well.”

In Johnson’s case, we did not have to wait for a written mea culpa for his use of an anti-semitic slur on the House floor. Seconds after making the comment, Johnson is interrupted by an individual off-camera.

After a brief conversation, Johnson reverses course…sort of.

“I apologize to the Jews. They’re good small businessmen as well,” Johnson says. http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/23/unbelievable-oklahoma-goper-uses-term-j
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At least this guy had the decency to ACTUALLY apologise a little later:

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"It just came out of one of the wrinkles of my brain and it was not something that was intentional,” Johnson told The Oklahoman. “I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone and I apologize for the folks I did offend. It is a comment that should never be made. I will never do it again."

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If more of them could manage that sincere an apology, instead of the usual non-apology apology about "IF I offended...", they might make headway.

But damn, if we want to play "offensive name" tag, I could literally BURY Rap in about five minutes, so really, he's probably better off quitting while he's ahead. The use of the N-word, "wetback", "jew", etc., is inexcusable by anyone, period.