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Another way to get the votes ... show your destine for Blacks, especially those with celebrity status!...
Evangelicals’ racist “purity” culture: What’s really behind Huckabee’s Beyoncé slur
When Mike Huckabee suggested that Jay Z was a pimp, he was tapping into an ugly history – and, likely, on purpose
... But Evangelicalism actually dates back to well before Roe v. Wade – indeed, about a decade before, right around the time Martin Luther King, Jr., was becoming a national figure. The historical white religious fear of the black man is a well-documented phenomenon. After all, Emmett Till was murdered for the supposed crime of whistling at a white woman. Social hygienists in the early 1920s created sexual health education not out of a public health concern, but because upper-class white women were beginning to mirror the supposed sexual habits of lower-class people of color. The pearl-clutching fear over miscegenation was still in the minds of evangelicals as they began to stand up as a political identity in the early 1960s ...
http://www.salon.com/2015/01/31/eva...e_whats_really_behind_huckabees_beyonce_slur/
Mike Huckabee, Beyoncé (Credit: Reuters/Brian Frank/AP/Jordan Strauss)
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Racism at its finest!