Hate: The Black Hole Of The Human Soul

I was doing some online reading when I ran across an article here:

http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/02/beyond-belief.html

The article was concerning the displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina which happened four years ago this week. The article is "code worded", a term meaning that certain words and phrases are used to refer to people or persons whom the user has issue with. In the case of Mr. Boortz, the code phrase is "human parasites", the decrypted phrase is "African-Americans". I does not take an NSA cryptographer or some cipherpunk somewhere in the U.K, to decipher the thinly veiled references to Black people. Let me see, people who were displaced, disowned, disrespected, and shoved into the Houston Superdome like human sardines, are "human parasites"? Babies without milk or diapers, are "human parasites"? Elderly people who worked all of there lives to get a piece of the "American Dream" by being homeowners and land owners who found their lives in ruins, are "human parasites"? Wow...

Now, one could argue the case that Mr. Boortz was merely referring the "undesirables" of all ethnicities, well let's look at the paragraph posted in his own writing:


"What was it I said about New Orleans? Prolly something it about being a city infested with parasites ... human parasites. Odd, isn't it, that two million could get on the National Mall for Barack Obama's inauguration without any public transportation, but 80,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans with four days warning and busses and trains running.?"



Unless you have been orbiting one of the outer planets for the past six months, you may know that Boortz was referring to the gathering of nearly two million people, most of which were African American, at the Presidential inauguration in D.C. That quote for me, instantly dispels any notion that Boortz was referring to "everyone" in that quote. The object of his vitriol is as clear as "onyx" (hint hint).

So here is my question as a Christian, where is the Church when it comes to dealing with racism? Why is our voice quiet for the most part? We rail against abortion and other moral evils, yet do we not consider the idea of one ethnic group denigrating another, and enforcing the idea of racial superiority by denying the objects of that hatred the same rights and privileges the via our economic, social, and political institutions, a sin? Don't get me wrong, there are many good pastors out there (I know a couple) who speak on these things, but for the most part there has been silence...except for the "pastor" in Arizona who is praying for the President to die and go to Hell.

Lord have mercy on us...

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