I’ve had many personal relationships now with black people that confirm what I know from the Bible - that everyone human was created in God’s image and should be treated that way. Jesus said we would in nowise enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless we become as little children, and they will not judge whole groups of people. And considering how other groupings of people, including Christians, conservatives, white people, etc., become very concerned about threats to themselves, including, for example, growing discrimination against Christians, I see no reason to discount the idea that slavery, segregation and discrimination still affect many black people. I won’t, though, as liberals do, assume that in conflicts between black and white people the white people are automatically wrong, except no doubt for them. In the Martin-Zimmerman case, as I said, the media was terribly dishonest and while Zimmerman did overstep his bounds as NW and act overzealously, there is strong evidence that Trayvon returned to the Cont’d
scene and assaulted him. White liberals, though, turned what happened, which was something tragic and in which Zimmerman shouldn’t have pursued Trayvon in his truck as he did, so that he still bears some moral responsibilty in that sense, into a judgment that ignored and twisted facts and was made solely about race. That includes the accusations leveled at the police department about a poor investigation, which turned out to be substantially wrong. In response to white liberals, though, I would not be anything but a Christian, and since my faith, deepened through the Bible, led me to see that I should be conservative and Republican, it certainly troubles me to see so much open racism on the right. And it can’t be defended on Christian grounds. I know very well there is a lot of racism on the Democratic side, but things that are clearly racism aren’t openly tolerated, and that does mean something. When a person or people of any race do something wrong, there’s no reason to fault everyone of that race Cont’d