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Thread #111339   Message #2344670
Posted By: PoppaGator
19-May-08 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Celebrity Worship Syndrome
Subject: RE: BS: Celebrity Worship Syndrome
Race card my ass.

I read your diatribe about Protestant-evangelical messianic language, and it immediately occurred to me that MLK's message would fit your description of something you seeem to regard as an evil and scary phenomenon.

Believe me, if there were a Caucasian person who had so profound an effect on our recent history by articulating a radically and explicitly Christian message of non-violence, faith, and determination, I would have used that person's name instead of Dr. King's.

But Dr. King was the first and only example I could think of who would seem to put the lie to your rant. Sorry!

By the way, I'm sure I could match you percentage-point by percentage-point, and then some, if we were to compare our involvement with and understanding of black and/or poor folks. But let's not go there, huh?