Even lower...

I saw the most despicable act of racism today on Youtube. A Jewish man was speaking about health care in Israel. As the man is speaking his mind (and he is a citizen of the U.S. by the way), a woman yells out to him "Heil Hitler!". WHAT?!? The man is speaking his mind as a citizen of this country, and she has the audacity to shout out a phrase that conjures up images of beaten, starved, broken, and brutally murdered human beings who were the focus of one of the most satanic plots in history outside of the Middle Passage, the extermination of God's chosen people, the Jews. Perhaps she missed the memo that Israel is a friend to America and it's citizens. I'm outraged for the simple fact that the issue the gentleman was talking about is an issue that is affecting our country, the health care initiative.

Before you cut me off, I just want to say that I have not made up my mind either way because I have not finished reading the Senate or House bill on it (yes, I have a copy, all 1018 pages of the Senate bill). Now back to my point.

I have heard people state that the protests have absolutely nothing to do with racism, it is all about not wanting our country to become Socialist. Really? Medicare is what then? And what that other one...ummm... let me think...social sec...something or another. It's the one that makes sure people who are too old to work don't end up living on the street and dying from hunger in front of Macy's and other places that young Americans like to spend money to pretend they are celebrities. So race isn't a factor in any of this? Then why hoist signs that show the Commander-and- Chief of the armed forces, as a monkey? Why have signs that show him as a thug cutting the throat of Uncle Sam? Both images are the stereotypes that we as African-Americans have had to fight for many a decade. So to bring this back around, given the many evidences I have seen, far too many to espouse on here, there is a definite underlying current of racism with some of these protesters. The idea of an African-American president is offensive to some. "Those (insert obvious ethnic reference here) people" are not supposed to occupy the most powerful office on the planet, it's only for "true (insert other obvious ethnic reference here) Americans." Yeeeeahhhh. :-/

As a Christian, I pray for those same people who look at me as a threat to them because of my ethnicity. I do not have a right to hate them, even though I am angered and saddened by the actions of those same people. "Love those who despise you, pray from them that spitefully use you." Luke 6:28.
It hurts my spirit to listen to people yell racial epithets under the guise of patriotism and policy protest . The last I checked, the USA was made up of many different cultures. Perhaps that woman should go to the Statue of Liberty and re-read the inscription:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breath free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send these, the homeless
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Hey, I have no problem with protests, it's is our right as citizens of the United States of America to voice our opinion without fear of government reprisal. But when our voice turns to one of hate and discord, I think we violate the spirit of the 1st Amendment.

My posts will not always be about negative things, but I just feel that these are things that Christians should think and talk about, because whether we like it or not, we are citizens of this world even though our true home is in Heaven. Issues about race and other things should not be a "Hush hush, let's tiptoe around this because we don't want to offend anyone" type deal. It affects all of us, no exceptions. Until next time...