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<TD><B>By <A title="Posts by Liam Fox"
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<P><B>NEWS JUNKIE POST</B></P><SPAN class=date>Jul 24, 2010 at 10:37
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><A class=highslide
onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/fascism-sarah-palin-flag-fascist-cross-republican-demotivational-poster-1224893113/"
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width=415 height=342></A><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><EM>“When fascism comes
to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair
Lewis</EM></SPAN></P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/shirley-sherrod-photo/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22415"><IMG
class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22415" title="Shirley Sherrod Photo"
alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Shirley-Sherrod-Photo-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>There are struggles and challenges with race relations
and understanding across just about every demographic of American society. Even
at its best it is a learning process much like the <A
onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk');"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk">inspirational story</A> shared
by Shirley Sherrod. With civil rights legislation only forty five years old, the
entire current population of African American seniors over 65 years old have had
the experience of being denied the legal right to vote in their own country.
Race relations in America, among a society of equal citizens, is relatively
new.</P>
<P>In this stage of relative infancy growing pains are to be expected. Trying to
figure out how to implement and enforce equality has been a challenge that
requires discussion and at times debate. Debate as cooperative fellow citizens
is necessary, but there is a preponderance of malicious and racially
controversial rhetoric emanating from a particular area within the body politic.
The same population of political and social conservatives that espouse their
Christianity, and wish to impose it on the rest of the nation, are the
instigators of much of the current, racially divisive, rhetoric.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/tea-party-express-7/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22405"><IMG
class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22405" title=tea-party-express alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tea-party-express-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>Tea Party Express rallies, that have been instrumental
in campaigning for Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Scott Brown, and
several others, have featured at least as many signs demanding that America
become a Christian Nation, as they have mocking the President based on his race
and ethnicity. Aside from their vague platform of ‘smaller <A class=highslide
onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/original/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22406"><IMG
class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22406" title=original alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/original-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>government’ and ‘lower taxes’ that lacks any proactive
alternatives, the message of their signs and slogans present an overwhelming
impression that the Tea Party attendees make a clear correlation of non-white =
foreign = non-Christian = un-American.</P>
<P>This isn’t a misinterpretation based on observing a minority fringe at the
otherwise multicultural and pluralistic events. These are identifiable truths,
with well documented photo evidence, of a predominantly homogeneous group of
individuals <A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/obama_monkey_nigger/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22407"><IMG
class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22407" title=obama_monkey_nigger alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/obama_monkey_nigger-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>who claim to have unified values and beliefs. From
these same events that featured Palin, Angle, Bachmann, et al, who claimed their
guidance from God to make America a Christian nation, came invitations for Obama
to return to Kenya, with placards showing the President as both a witchdoctor
and a monkey.</P>
<P>Mark Williams, the purportedly dethroned leader of the Tea Party Express, who
has stood shoulder to shoulder with almost every Tea Party candidate on the
November ballot, including Palin and Angle, penned the disgustingly insensitive
and racist sounding parody letter to Abraham Lincoln, written as if it had been
authored by NAACP president Benjamin Jealous. Although it has been claimed that
<A
onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.therainbowcollective.com/?p=2528');"
href="http://www.therainbowcollective.com/?p=2528">Mr. Williams was fired</A> by
some authority within the Tea Party hierarchy, which claims to have no such
centralized hierarchical authority, his letter, and conflict with the NAACP, has
sparked a firestorm of activity from the Conservative Religious Right claiming
to be victimized by ‘reverse racism’ from the White House.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/tea-party-racist-signs-07-white-slavery/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22412"><IMG class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22412"
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<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/glenn_beck-r800706/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22413"><IMG
class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22413" title=Glenn_Beck-r800706 alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Glenn_Beck-r800706-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>Much of these sentiments seem to originate with Glenn
Beck who, when not insisting that America become a Christian Theocracy, has
repeatedly accused President Obama of being a racist with a deep seated hatred
for white people. This unscrupulous fear-mongering is as fallacious as Beck’s
entire Christian Reconstructionist campaign, and has had an equally deleterious
effect on our current national conversation and political climate.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/andrew-breitbart-reveals-new-video-footage-of-acorn-officials/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22414"><IMG
class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22414"
title="Andrew Breitbart Reveals New Video Footage Of ACORN Officials" alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/500x_breitbartreuters-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>Andrew Breitbart, the infamous Tea Party activist and
propagandist who spearheads a large portion of the Internet component of the
right-wing echo-chamber, was the architect behind the recent smear campaign of
USDA official Shirley Sherrod. Fortunately, Mr. Breitbart was foolish enough to
underestimate Mrs. Sherrod before attempting a character assassination based on
<A
onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/');"
href="http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/">trumped
up charges of racism</A>.</P>
<P>Although Mr. Breitbart has re-represented his motivations several times,
ranging from an attack on Mrs. Sherrod and the supposedly racist Obama
Administration, to an expose of NAACP racism, the fundamental truth remains the
same; Mr. Breitbart attempted to use material that he knew to be an incomplete
and misleading representation of the facts in order to support false claims of
racism and inflame racial tensions and divisiveness.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/foxnews/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22416"><IMG
class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22416" title=FoxNews alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/FoxNews-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>In the same manner that Fox News blends overtly
Christian dogma with revisionist American history and anti-Obama propaganda,
Conservative politics have become synonymous with Christian Reconstructionism
and deliberate racial divisiveness. O’Reilly, Hannity, and Beck present a
consistent ideology and theology on these matters, relinquishing First Amendment
rights to the supremacy of Christianity while defending their own race-baiting
by playing victim to the very tactics they employ.</P>
<P>Thursday evening past, on Sean Hannity’s Fox cable show, in the aftermath of
Mark Williams’ letter and Andrew Breitbart’s smear campaign, in a segment with
Pat Caddell called ‘Media Fueled Racism(?)’, Anne Coulter stated that there is
“<A
onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007210089');"
href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007210089">no racism in America</A>.”
Believe it or not, whether it’s profound ignorance or deliberate denial, it runs
that deep. The same woman that claimed that <A
onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnPHFSdrME');"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnPHFSdrME">Jews needed to be
‘perfected’</A> by becoming Christians claims that there is no racism in
America.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/6a00d8341bf8f353ef01156fc22838970c-400wi/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22417"><IMG class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22417"
title=6a00d8341bf8f353ef01156fc22838970c-400wi alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/6a00d8341bf8f353ef01156fc22838970c-400wi.gif"
width=400 height=307></A></P>
<P>Their own bigotries seem to be completely invisible to them. Combined with
the delusion that, as white people, they are subject to the oppressive bigotry
and racism of non-white Americans, their psychosis would be laughable if it
wasn’t so damaging. The ingredients and motivation for their revolution of Angry
White Christians wanting to “take their country back” is, whether they realize
it or not, a model of transparency.</P>
<P>The white, conservative, racially biased, religious right, has embraced a
theology that unsurprisingly creates their God in their own image; a white
skinned Jesus, wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross, and packing heat.</P>
<P>This version of Christianity is nothing more than part of the definition of
exclusivity that bolsters the mindset of ‘Us versus Them’. It is a theology
based more on identity than doctrine. It is an only slightly watered down
version of white Christian nationalism, and a not so distant cousin to the White
Citizens Council or the Ku Klux Klan. It’s the sentiments, the desires, and the
anger, without all the messy honesty. It provides them with what they think is a
cloak of credibility for their otherwise distasteful prejudices; sheltering them
from political backlash as well as personal admission.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/img_1944/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22424"><IMG
class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22424" title=IMG_1944 alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/IMG_1944-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>The same motivations that drive the religious right to
impose their Christian dogma on every citizen of this country fuels the
underlying racism they are struggling to deny. The only things deemed acceptable
to them are those things that agree with them, and appear to be like them. It is
an affective community of insecure individuals intent on creating a homogeneous
society to provide their weakened self-esteem and faltering self-image with the
comfort of conformity. If you want to be accepted or even tolerated by them, you
must be just like them. You must look like them and believe like them. They are
the schoolyard bullies of American politics. There is no room for difference or
dissent in their America.</P>
<P>America’s Religious Right is a community that craves exclusivity. They insist
on exclusivity from anyone that is not just like them. They claim the exclusive
right to have guaranteed rights, and the exclusive right to decide who is worthy
to have those rights. In order to achieve this, they claim Divine prescription
for their manifest destiny and ordained authority over others, The Constitution
be damned.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/jesusliberalis1/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22425"><IMG class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22425"
title=jesusliberalis1 alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jesusliberalis1.jpg"
width=395 height=245></A></P>
<P>Their religion, other than part of the construct of their identity, is a
medium for the expression of their hatreds and biases. This is not a
Christianity of love and charity designed for personal enlightenment and growth.
This is a dogmatic Christianity of White Nationalism to be imposed on others.
Calling themselves ‘Real Americans’, to the exclusion of all the ‘Fake
Americans’ that don’t look, act, and believe as they do, is the proof they offer
of this point.</P>
<P><A class=highslide onclick="return vz.expand(this)"
href="http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/07/24/right-wing-america-racism-and-religion/s-christian-large/"
rel="attachment wp-att-22426"><IMG
class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-22426" title=s-CHRISTIAN-large alt=""
src="http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/s-CHRISTIAN-large-180x180.jpg"
width=180 height=180></A>Perhaps some day Christian Conservative Nationalists
will realize that their theology, as well as their social views, are based on
fear and ignorance. Perhaps one day they will realize that acceptance,
tolerance, and enlightenment, are not synonymous with bias, exclusion and
control. Perhaps, but until then, America will only be “One Nation Indivisible”
if it manages to keep out from under them and their
God.</P></DIV></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2>
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