Discussing the situation during a TV news segment a guest commentator questioned
the sincerity of Deen’s apology. He suggested that in order for her to really
show contrition, she should donate the proceeds of one of her cook books to
some group that furthers the cause of racial diversity.
Unfortunately many of us are just like the commentator when we put
stipulations and price tags on forgiveness. “Be
kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ
God forgave you.” (Eph 4:32 NIV)
1 comment:
Gail;
-----I’ve been following this mugging as it progresses through the news gauntlet. I might be wrong, but I am all the same thoroughly convinced that Paula Deen’s inquisitors are not about repentance or forgiveness or graciousness or mercy or even righteousness, love,kindness, or compassion. These are truly evil people who know individual hearts make a society, and that a society transforms the being of weak hearts. The more weak hearts that can be pounded into conformity with chosen ways, the more society can be owned. I was saddened and sickened and somewhat contemptuous of how easily Paula folded to these thugs.
-----”We all make mistakes,” is the attitude where we all need to be, because it is true. So somebody at Paula Deen’s restaurant continually referred to a black cook as “my little monkey”. Also, somebody of the New Black Panthers called for the beating and killing of white-crackers, starting with their babies. I never did hear cat calls for apologies. And somehow I don’t think there would have been the exacting measurements against perfection of any apology had it been given. Moreover, we saw Barack Obamah and Eric Holder simply dismiss all charges against two New Black Panthers armed with clubs for intimidating voters at the doors of a Chicago polling place. But Paula Deen’s mistakes subject her to the alligator pit.
-----The message is plain to see. The new social pressures flow from the left. If you do not overtly portray left-wing ideology and are iconic at all, especially if you have any visible connection to traditional moral principles and old American values, you will be drug to Caesar’s statue, then thrown into the Coliseum regardless of how much homage you paid while kissing those stone feet bathed in your own tears of fear. The point is not about mending racial divides. It is about the unevenly distributing political power. By the overwhelming majority of the news and entertainment media, the university and school faculties, the politicians and justices, the bureaucracies and foundations and philanthropies all cat calling the same “man can make utopia” hogwash coming from the same collectivist fencepost, social power is focusing into thoughtless hands. Thus society itself is being turned into a fascistic mill for grinding ordinary people into meal for the feeding of left-wing minions held at the trough by their own fear of becoming the meal. Paula is caught in a machine of social psychopathology rising like a rogue beast out of a sea of deceived and deceitful people. Eventually, it will drag everyone to the feet of Caesar’s statue. Know your Father well, and fear Him alone.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
Post a Comment