Here is a piece Faith McDonnell wrote last week. What questions do you want to see asked at the presidential debate tonight?
Comment by dover1952 on October 17, 2012 at 1:23 am
Sudan did not come up in the debate tonight, and it will likely not come up in Boca Raton. People seem to think that the public is ignorant about Sudan. The truth of the matter is that Sudan has been in the news for years. I read a long article on the conflict in National Geographic while waiting to see my doctor years ago.
Bottom Line:
Neither political party, most “true” Christians, and most Americans in general do not give a flip about anything that happens in Africa as one flies south from Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, etc. People with black skin lie south, and in this world a black skin is an instant turn off and an automatic death sentence. It should not be that way, but it is. Outside of a few activist organizations, no one cares about Africa. If you were to ask 10 conservative Christians in Georgia:
“What should be done about Africa?”
My guess is that at least five of them would say, “Open her up and encourage as many American negroes as possible to move there and never come back—sure would fix our Food Stamp problems!!!!”
Conservative American churches have no credibility on Africa because of their racist legacy–the Southern Baptist Convention being chief among them. As Pogo said: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Comment by dover1952 on October 17, 2012 at 1:23 am
Sudan did not come up in the debate tonight, and it will likely not come up in Boca Raton. People seem to think that the public is ignorant about Sudan. The truth of the matter is that Sudan has been in the news for years. I read a long article on the conflict in National Geographic while waiting to see my doctor years ago.
Bottom Line:
Neither political party, most “true” Christians, and most Americans in general do not give a flip about anything that happens in Africa as one flies south from Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, etc. People with black skin lie south, and in this world a black skin is an instant turn off and an automatic death sentence. It should not be that way, but it is. Outside of a few activist organizations, no one cares about Africa. If you were to ask 10 conservative Christians in Georgia:
“What should be done about Africa?”
My guess is that at least five of them would say, “Open her up and encourage as many American negroes as possible to move there and never come back—sure would fix our Food Stamp problems!!!!”
Conservative American churches have no credibility on Africa because of their racist legacy–the Southern Baptist Convention being chief among them. As Pogo said: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”