Thanks for your replies. I cannot, according to forums rules, paste links to racist websites. If you go to your favorite search engine, type in “Obama” “birth certificate” “racist” you might find the white power types are crawling out and squawking about how President Obama still is not a legitimate president.
"This is not the time or place for such conversation.
I could care less about your racist cousins in the south. Go find another forum to talk about your family in. "
Yuppers, it is. This is forum to post in. Because a lot of racists are posting everywhere on line now that the birth certificate is fake. The racists are posting because they don’t believe a man of African American heritage can be a legitimate president of the US.
"Why? Nothing else has been barred to my knowledge. As far as I can see there are no boundaries to what can be dragged into this conversation. I for one believe a white president would never have felt the need to stoop to the indignity that occurred this morning. Is that opinion out of the non-existent limits of discussion on this issue? "
Thank you. The people squealing about President Obama’s birth certificate are not talking about President Obama’s policies.
Rather, they are upset about who President Obama IS Again, not what President Obama has done. But what he “is”
Pretty much the definition of bigotry.
The Catholic Church has never degraded people on the basis of their skin color.
Therefore faithful Catholics will discuss President Obama’s policies. Discussing whether Obama can be legitimately elected President because he’s of African American heritage is racist. I’m sure all good Catholics and other Christians agreed. Glad to know we’re all moving on. Oh, here is some teachings from the Catholic Church. Thank goodness we all agree …
Racial prejudice, which denies the equal dignity of all the members of the human family and blasphemes the Creator, can only be eradicated by going to its roots, where it is formed: in the human heart. It is from the heart that just or unjust behavior is born,(63) according to whether persons are open to God’s will-in the natural order and in the Living Word-or whether they close themselves up in those egoisms dictated by fear or the instinct of domination. It is the way we look at others that must be purified. Harboring racist thoughts and entertaining racist attitudes is a sin against the specific message of Christ for whom one’s “neighbor” is not only a person from my tribe, my milieu, my religion or my nation: it is every person that I meet along the way.
It is not through external means-legislation or scientific proofs-that racial prejudice can be uprooted. It is indeed not enough that laws prohibit or punish all types of racial discrimination: these laws can easily be gotten around if the community for which they are intended does not fully accept them. To overcome discrimination, a community must interiorize the values that inspire just laws and live out, in day-to-day life, the conviction of the equal dignity of all.
ewtn.com/library/curia/pcjpraci.htm