'Dirty' skin: Utah school district ignored chronic racial harassment of Black and Asian students

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Lezunto

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Which one of ya'll gonna play the role of Greg Stillson?

( The missiles are flying. Hallaleujah!
 

Meghan54

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Untrue. The Bible said that the sons of Canaan were to serve their brothers. Canaan, according to the Bible, was the grandson of Noah. He was the one who was cursed, not Ham.

Serious Bible scholars and anthropologists believe the Black Race is descended from Cush or Kush, a son of Ham. There are no Canaanites alive today. They were wiped out, according to the Bible.

But disturbed White bigots who claim to represent God keep up with the nonsensical fiction.

Despite all that you wrote, it is FACT that Southern religious leaders (preachers, priests, etc.), all used the Bible to justify blacks being slaves…

This is also why we ended up with Baptists snd Southern Baptists, Methodists and Southern Methodists, amongst religious groups that split during the 1800’s about support for slavery and it being God’s will.
 

Lezunto

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Meghan,

Yours is a specious argument. I said what the Bible says. Those are facts. I don't care what vicious and racist White men say.

They are about to turn the U.S. into another charnel house of racist terror with the complicity of folks who claim to love freedom.
 
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Meghan54

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Meghan,

Yours is a specious argument. I said what the Bible says. Those are facts. I don't care what vicious and racist White men say.

They are about to turn the U.S. into another charnel house of racist terror with the complicity of folks who claim to love freedom.


Look moron, we got it. You know that the Bible doesn't say blacks or persons of color are supposed to be slaves to whites.

But the point was and is is that southern religious leaders did indeed distort the Bible to fit their agenda, which was slavery. And by extension, it's not odd that Utah's dominant religion sorta condones the behavior in the OP because......the Bible tells them so.

FYI.....here's an interesting read on why slavery was supported by white southerners, despite very few actually owning slaves.


A portion from the above:

Churches were the center of social and intellectual life in the south. That was where people congregated, where they learned about the world and their place in it, and where they received moral guidance. The clergy comprised the community’s cultural leaders and educators and carried tremendous influence with slaveholders and non-slaveholders alike. What were Southern pastors, preachers, and religious leaders telling their flock?


Southern clergy defended the morality of slavery through an elaborate scriptural defense built on the infallibility of the Bible, which they held up as the universal and objective standard for moral issues. Religious messages from pulpit and from a growing religious press accounted in large part for the extreme, uncompromising, ideological atmosphere of the time.


As Northern opposition to slavery grew, the three major protestant churches split into northern and southern factions. The Presbyterians divided in1837, the Methodists in 1844, and the Baptists in 1845. The segregation of the clergy into Northern and Southern camps was profound. It spelt an end to meaningful dialogue, leaving Southern preachers to talk to Southern audiences without contradiction.


What were their arguments? The Presbyterian theologian Robert Lewis Dabney reminded his fellow Southern clergymen that the Bible was the best way to explain slavery to the masses. “We must go before the nation with the Bible as the text, and ‘thus sayeth the lord’ as the answer,” he wrote. “We know that on the Bible argument the abolition party will be driven to unveil their true infidel tendencies. The Bible being bound to stand on our side, they have to come out and array themselves against the Bible.”


Reverend Furman of South Carolina insisted that the right to hold slaves was clearly sanctioned by the Holy Scriptures. He emphasized a practical side as well, warning that if Lincoln were elected, “every Negro in South Carolina and every other Southern state will be his own master; nay, more than that, will be the equal of every one of you. If you are tame enough to submit, abolition preachers will be at hand to consummate the marriage of your daughters to black husbands.”


A fellow reverend from Virginia agreed that on no other subject “are [the Bible’s] instructions more explicit, or their salutary tendency and influence more thoroughly tested and corroborated by experience than on the subject of slavery.” The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, asserted that slavery “has received the sanction of Jehova.” As a South Carolina Presbyterian concluded: “If the scriptures do not justify slavery, I know not what they do justify.”


The Biblical argument started with Noah’s curse on Ham, the father of Canaan, which was used to demonstrate that God had ordained slavery and had expressly applied it to Blacks. Commonly cited were passages in Leviticus that authorized the buying, selling, holding and bequeathing of slaves as property. Methodist Samuel Dunwody from South Carolina documented that Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, and Job owned slaves, arguing that “some of the most eminent of the Old Testament saints were slave holders.” The Methodist Quarterly Review noted further that “the teachings of the new testament in regard to bodily servitude accord with the old.” While slavery was not expressly sanctioned in the New Testament, Southern clergymen argued that the absence of condemnation signified approval. They cited Paul’s return of a runaway slave to his master as Biblical authority for the Fugitive Slave Act, which required the return of runaway slaves.
 
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Lezunto

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Go stuff yourself!

There's not ONE White poster who can remain calm and polite?

If you hate Black people that much why aren't you out there with the Trump Nazis trying to kill us all?
 
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Captante

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Go stuff yourself!

There's not ONE White poster who can remain calm and polite?

If you hate Black people that much why aren't you out there with the Trump Nazis trying to kill us all?


Show me where I got all worked up or was "impolite" towards you? ;)

And essentially the majority of the Christian Bible consists ENTIRELY of "distortion" with the purpose of controlling those incapable (or unwilling) to think for themselves.
 

Moonbeam

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That’s just madness. How come people of the modern age still believe in these stereotypes and try to treat people according to their skin colour? I think such people should stay away from a healthy society. Moreover, such kids should know their rights, protection, and how to deal with blackmail and bullying. I hope that school provides more education for kids after revealing such accidents. I think if my kids were shamed for their appearance in the school, I would go and talk to their parents; moreover, I would even change the school. Because it is harder to change the minds of some idiots
Because all contempt of others is an opportune way to redirect the self hatred one learned as a child as a result of the experience of being personally condemned for 'evil' behavior. No child can survive ostracism, the excamunication form social support and love mostly early on provided by parents. The severity of this can reach a degree that one can grow up to be an enforcer of the regimentation of conformity and lose all empathy for the self and the victim. Stockholm Syndrome.

The enemy of all of this is real religion which means that the first target of psychopaths will be its corruption.
 

pauldun170

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Are you sure you're actually Black?! That's some thin, transparent skin you’re sporting there.

(sneaks in looking for an excuse to post this to get it out of his system)
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Moonbeam

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And essentially the majority of the Christian Bible consists ENTIRELY of "distortion" with the purpose of controlling those incapable (or unwilling) to think for themselves.

This is something you hear so often pronounced as fact, I wonder if anybody stops to think about it for themselves. If the purpose of mind control is to produce a feeling of certainty where logic would tell us none should properly exist, then even thoughts about mind control might tend toward that default mental state. There seems to be a need for certainty implicit in human thinking.