Southern white racists justify their intolerance & violence toward blacks with the Holy Bible?

Question

I never understood that. Can someone please explain?

Answer 1

Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden--
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper--
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden--
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard--
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
"Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden--
Ye dare not stoop to less--
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke (1) your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden--
Have done with childish days--
The lightly proferred laurel, (2)
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers

Answer 2

Many southern racists justified their slavery practices using the biblical story of Noah and his three sons. After the flood Noah got drunk and took off all of his clothes. One of his sons saw him naked and the other two sons helped Noah and covered him. As a result the son who saw him naked was cursed and sent away. Southern racists said that the African people were the cursed descendants of the bad son because he was described with darker skin. There's some variation on the story such as that the son did something sexual to Noah when Noah was drunk, but in general that's the story that they used to justify it. I don't think that it should be used as a justification of slavery, but unfortunately they did.

Answer 3

I really can't explain this. Although I am white, my husband is black and we have 3 sons together. We've been married for 10 years, we are both Christians. I have no answer except that they are in for a rude awakening on judgment day.

Answer 4

I actual have lived in diverse different areas previously settling in the Carolina area and that i easily have considered so lots extra racism right here from whites and blacks than I actual have in the different area I actual have lived in. i think of lots of it has to do with harsh thoughts being handed during the generations and infants are purely reported with that form of lack of understanding.

Answer 5

It was a sinful, willful twisting of the truth of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood/sisterhood of humankind. People sometimes do twist things to suit them don't they? Go figure how a life of hate = Our Loving Father's will?

Answer 6

With all due respect, you just showed intolerance with your comment about Southern people. It makes me sick when all of us are thought of as morons or racists (and I'm only half white, so that should get your attention.)

Rephrase it and then get back to me.

Answer 7

Ham was a bad son, so when he had children, they were called Hamites. And colored people of the earth descended from the Hamites.

Also the verse about "flat noses" not being allowed in the congregation of God backs this up, since blacks have flat noses.

What's surprising is that there are plenty of black Christian churches in the South. Guess they have their own interpretation.

Answer 8

Yeah they are biggots and scumbags. They think they are better than everyone else. They apearently dont get the fact that Jesus was not a white. Amazing isn't it. THey will eventually hang themselves by their own rope. Hopefully sometime soon so they can meet their maker. It could get really hot down there.

Answer 9

Sadly, the ignorant and fearful always use God as a backdrop for their foolishness. You've got to blame someone for what you can't understand.

Answer 10

racist are very uneducated and scared about the world they are losing,you can use the bible to go against anything you want,theirs something for everybody,its a sad world and a sad country where we let those poor uneducated anti-american southern scumbags live

Answer 11

There are Northern racists as well.

I am a Southerner, one of my best friends is black, and you are offensive.
Most Southerners are not racist.