Happy Easter White Supremacists

[Krugminator2]

On Easter Sunday, Christians must remember how easily and often our faith is used to defend white supremacy. As a white evangelical in America, I can't celebrate Easter in 2018 without working to reclaim the concept of redemption.

Easter Sunday, when Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is also —and not accidentally — a tragic anniversary in American history.
On Easter Sunday 1873, 145 years ago, hundreds of white men in Colfax County, Louisiana, took up arms after Sunday morning worship services and marched to their county courthouse to reclaim control of the local government from representatives who had been democratically elected by black and white people voting together. Standing their ground in the hopes that federal reinforcements would arrive in time, every defender of democracy at the Colfax County courthouse was murdered.

Trump’s own slogan — “Make America Great Again” — is a redemption story in a nutshell. It assumes a fall from which must now be saved. It may be tempting for some to point to 2008 and hang this white anxiety on America’s first black president. But Barack Obama, as a person, remains too popular among all Americans for this theory to be true. No, the redemption narrative that gave us Trump is not so much about Obama as it is about the black, brown and younger white coalition that made Obama’s presidency possible. No one stated this white anxiety more clearly than Michele Bachmann, in an address to the Values Voter Summit before the 2016 election. “It’s a math problem of demographics,” she noted, claiming “this is the last election when we even have a chance to vote for somebody who will stand up for godly moral principles.”

A helpful remind from NBC Think that Easter is about white supremacy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...m_npd_nn_tw_ma

[TheCount]

White supremacists have moved on to norse religions so that they don't have to worship an arab.

[timosman]

But Barack Obama, as a person, remains too popular among all Americans for this theory to be true.

[Intoxiklown]

White supremacists have moved on to norse religions so that they don't have to worship an arab.

Sad but true.

I found this out when enlisting in the Army.

I have a few tattoos, two of which are on my front torso. On my left pec is an American eagle with the stars and bars for it's wings. Starting at mid right pec and going down in a straight line ending about lower mid abdomen is my family name written in Runic alphabet (I'm Nordic on my father's side, out of Denmark).

I never thought anything more of them than being an American southerner whose family were of "Viking" descent. Then while weighing and taping in the recruiters office....and I took my shirt off?

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was one black NCO from New York who literally looked like he walked up on a rattlesnake and was scared to get bit. The other NCO, also black, was from Tennessee thank God. When he saw the other NCO's face and asked what, followed his look and saw my tats, he simply said, "So the kid is proud to be from the south. So what? So am I. Let's help this young man get enlisted like he's asked."

That's when I found out my tats were EASILY mistaken to mean white supremacist.

[Danke]

[Origanalist]

What a uncle tom, he don evan soun black.