black church fires

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Ben said:

>  Maybe the white community should
> become outraged that their churches are being burned.  Just think of
> the emotional impact that would bring into the church world.  Churches
> are the backbone of any community.  Black and white - race does not
> matter.

I sense a bit of resentment that the black community is getting some 
press about all the recent church burnings.  I am not sure if more 
white churches have been burned this year.  Do you have a statistical 
fact for your comment?  Also, there have been black church burnings 
for years, and only because of the volume of burnings this year, is 
the subject getting so much press.

In regard to churches being the backbone of any community, black or 
white.  That may be true.  But one big difference is that while the 
white community has many other outlets and avenues in which they can 
involve themselves, the black community, specifically the urban black 
community, really only has the church.  That is why these folks are 
destroying them.  Because they know that if there is no church then 
the folks will have no hope and no place for solace.

In white neighborhoods, they may have boys and girls clubs, Kiwanis 
clubs, just look in the phone book under community type things.  You 
won't see many addresses there for the inner cities.  That's the 
point.

Why is it that white people feel that they have to always play "one 
up?"  Everytime something happens to us and there is a little press, 
white folks start fussing about this happens to them too.  Come on.

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