Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
Sorry, but one can't totally ignore Christ's two greatest commandments and still consider themselves followers of Him.
Matthew 22: 36-40
I've tasked white supremacists who identify as Christian to show me in Holy Scripture where God mentions race, and if they can find the non existent where He promotes one race over another. So far I've received no replies.
That being said: I understand why you believe racists can be Christians: If you go judging one group of people who obviously can't be followers of Christ, you'll have to judge another (your beloved 'Gay' Christian movement).
Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
Look at all of the communists/communist organizations and communist sympathizers that Baldwin associated with (the NAACP, King, Evers, Dubois, etc.).
Besides, the socialist movement and communist movement are one in the same.
The previous article that I linked showing Baldwin joining a communist youth group pretty much says it all:
"They all had some association with Freedomways, a quarterly published from 1961 to 1985, which maintained close ties to the Communist Party.17 Freedomways has been described as the brain child of Louis Burnham and Ed Strong, two African-American Communists who had been part of the leadership cadre of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC).18 Freedomways initiators included Lorraine Hansberry, who had worked on Freedom, a Harlem-based, Communist party-sponsored newspaper directed by Paul Robeson, which by 1955 had been red-baited out of existence.19 Freedomways’ editor, Esther Cooper Jackson, who also had been active in the SNYC, was the wife of James Jackson, a major Communist party leader and editor-in-chief of The Worker, the Communist Party’s newspaper.
Not only were Freedomways’ personnel and its organizational antecedents closely aligned with the Communist Party, so were its politics...
Baldwin declared his affinity to Freedomways in the short-but-pithy Foreword he wrote for The Freedomways Reader: Afro-America in the Seventies, where he warmly praised the journal as “rather like a friend you have known so long that neither of you can remember exactly where, or when, you met. All is clear now that a friend came along when you needed one.” Baldwin credits Freedomways with “addressing itself to the task of re-interpreting the American reality: which … had global reverberations. No other black American periodical saw this as early, or as clearly, as Freedomways.”22 Over its 25-year lifespan, Freedomways published seven short pieces by Baldwin,23 but he also connected with that journal in more consequential ways. As a Contributing Editor, his name appeared on the inside cover page of each issue.24 The cover of Freedomways Reader featured a photo of Baldwin with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., taken on February 23, 1968, on the occasion of a Freedomways-sponsored 100th birthday tribute to W.E.B Du Bois at Carnegie Hall."
http://sdonline.org/55/james-baldwins-harlem-the-key-to-his-politics/
We could talk about King's close ties to the Communist Party or W.E.B. Dubois' membership in it, but we've been over that in another thread haven't we?
The two movement's ideology are one in the same. Just because the socialist movement has been able to implement socialist programs and policies into a once free enterprise system, doesn't mean that they been totally successful in turning the United States into a socialist utopia.
Sorry, but one can't totally ignore Christ's two greatest commandments and still consider themselves followers of Him.
Matthew 22: 36-40
I've tasked white supremacists who identify as Christian to show me in Holy Scripture where God mentions race, and if they can find the non existent where He promotes one race over another. So far I've received no replies.
That being said: I understand why you believe racists can be Christians: If you go judging one group of people who obviously can't be followers of Christ, you'll have to judge another (your beloved 'Gay' Christian movement).
Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
Look at all of the communists/communist organizations and communist sympathizers that Baldwin associated with (the NAACP, King, Evers, Dubois, etc.).
Besides, the socialist movement and communist movement are one in the same.
The previous article that I linked showing Baldwin joining a communist youth group pretty much says it all:
"They all had some association with Freedomways, a quarterly published from 1961 to 1985, which maintained close ties to the Communist Party.17 Freedomways has been described as the brain child of Louis Burnham and Ed Strong, two African-American Communists who had been part of the leadership cadre of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC).18 Freedomways initiators included Lorraine Hansberry, who had worked on Freedom, a Harlem-based, Communist party-sponsored newspaper directed by Paul Robeson, which by 1955 had been red-baited out of existence.19 Freedomways’ editor, Esther Cooper Jackson, who also had been active in the SNYC, was the wife of James Jackson, a major Communist party leader and editor-in-chief of The Worker, the Communist Party’s newspaper.
Not only were Freedomways’ personnel and its organizational antecedents closely aligned with the Communist Party, so were its politics...
Baldwin declared his affinity to Freedomways in the short-but-pithy Foreword he wrote for The Freedomways Reader: Afro-America in the Seventies, where he warmly praised the journal as “rather like a friend you have known so long that neither of you can remember exactly where, or when, you met. All is clear now that a friend came along when you needed one.” Baldwin credits Freedomways with “addressing itself to the task of re-interpreting the American reality: which … had global reverberations. No other black American periodical saw this as early, or as clearly, as Freedomways.”22 Over its 25-year lifespan, Freedomways published seven short pieces by Baldwin,23 but he also connected with that journal in more consequential ways. As a Contributing Editor, his name appeared on the inside cover page of each issue.24 The cover of Freedomways Reader featured a photo of Baldwin with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., taken on February 23, 1968, on the occasion of a Freedomways-sponsored 100th birthday tribute to W.E.B Du Bois at Carnegie Hall."
http://sdonline.org/55/james-baldwins-harlem-the-key-to-his-politics/
We could talk about King's close ties to the Communist Party or W.E.B. Dubois' membership in it, but we've been over that in another thread haven't we?
The two movement's ideology are one in the same. Just because the socialist movement has been able to implement socialist programs and policies into a once free enterprise system, doesn't mean that they been totally successful in turning the United States into a socialist utopia.
