The African-American employees' complaint also alleges that, after they complained about the segregated bathroom, the plant manager told them that the bathroom had been locked because they were dirty and announced the closing of the break room. According to the complaint, the same white employees who had keys to the "Whites Only" bathroom formed their own, private break room, using Tyson materials to construct the furniture. Initially, a locked door segregated the private break room. To the present day, locked cabinets and a locked refrigerator maintain a private break room.(Emphasis added.)
Example 2: In Utah, legislators hope to keep the evacuated children from New Orleans segregated from the general population. The alleged reason: The children have already undergone too much "stress." Could it be that the real reason for this segregation is to keep those white-bread Mormon kids free from too much interaction with the dreaded "Lamanites"?
Example 3: Four years ago, the Christian Coalition -- then headed by Pat Robertson -- settled a suit filed by black employees who proved that they were denied overtime pay, were forced to enter a work facility through a back door (while whites could enter through the front), and were forced to eat in a segregated area.
Example 4: The title of this article speaks for itself: "Experts fear return of segregation to public schools in the South." The body of the piece demonstrates that, to a large degree, segregation has already returned.
Example 5: Let's go back to Pat Robertson. On September 5, during the worst of the outrage in NOLA, he entertained his audience with a very special program:
The 700 Club's featured guest was Wellington Boone, a black minister invited by Robertson to provide a counterpoint to the ubiquitous Rev. Jesse Jackson. Boone is a member of the Coalition on Revival, a Christian Reconstructionist organization that advocates replacing the US Constitution with biblical law. Throughout his career, he has distinguished himself from his black clerical colleagues with such remarks as "I believe that slavery, and the understanding of it when you see it God's way, was redemptive"...(Emphasis added)
Example 6: Followers of Christian Reconstructionism and Dominionism -- the fastest-growing movements within Fundamentalist Christianity -- openly advocate the return of slavery.
Folks, do you recall that "Jesusland" map which was passed around after the election? If ever such a split occurs, southern blacks will face the grimmest of futures.
All fundamentalists -- of every denomination, in any region -- are filth. FILTH.
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Never forget- it was DEMOCRATS who put the Jim Crow laws into effect. DEMOCRATS who ordered the hosing down of blacks attempting to vote.
97% of the REPUBLICANS in the US government voted for the civil-rights act in 1964.
But you are right about extremists in religion. And since some claim Aethism to be a religion...
The vote statistics on the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 are misleading, anon. If you read
the Wikipedia article on it you'll see that
if you break down the votes by region, the
northern Dems favored the ACT more than the
the northern Repubs did, and the southern
Dems favored it more than the southern
Repubs did. It was the large bloc of
southern Dems who opposed it that skewed
the statistics that way.
I have to wonder what the first Anon thinks he's accomplishing by point out that the Republicans of today are like the Democrats of 115 years ago.
- Jon C.
Blech, "POINTING out". Stupid, sleepy fingers.
- Jon C.
LBJ said that the Dems would lose the south for more than a generation after he signed the civil rights act. They did. More than a generation later, the "former" racists are STILL on the GOP side. That fact of history ought to tell us something.
It also should tell us something that none of the white employees at Tyson complained.
I never said I was an atheist. I said that I remain mired somewhere between Gnosticism and agnosticism.
The Gnostics argued that the creator God of the Jews was a bad -- or at least mad -- or at least pre-moral diety. He's something a sadist, which is why this world is the way it is.
Remember that old "Twilight Zone" episode with the young and omnipotent Billy Mumy? That pretty nicely sums up Gnostic view of Yahweh.
And it's an image which makes, shall we say, a certain poetic sense to me. When (say) a hurricane strikes, the conventionally-religious folk try to convince themselves: "That was a GOOD thing you did, Jehovah. A VERY good thing..." The Gnostics did't have to engage in that sort of self-hypnosis.
the conventionally-religious folk try to convince themselves: "That was a GOOD thing you did, Jehovah. A VERY good thing..."
Bullshit. The extremists say that, not the conventionally-minded.
I for one thought it was quite amusing that the first hurricane of another year slammed right into Pat Robertson's home town and headquarters- not long after he said Orlando would get hit by a disaster for holding a gay-pride convention.
btw, did you notice? They interviewed a bunch of NO refugees the other day- and they were all Pleased with Bush's efforts, and felt the local/state gov was to blame. Now they either:
Know their local and state officials pretty well.
or
Are pretty damn dumb.
Since I side with people thinking for themselves...
has Jim ever left, really?
fundamentalism should be classed as a serious mental illness. its delusional nature and intolerance are manifest. many of the worlds people choose to live without having religion crammed into every orifice and without the 'fear of god' replacing political democracy - yet the bible-bashers and koran kickers believe in an implicit superiority that is contrary to reality, and yet rests only on a human interpretation of words regarded as holy. show me your god and i will listen to it: bring me a book and i will throw it back at you.
It always helps to check several places. Like this one court of law
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