ex-idaho

Why is it that religious African-Americans do not share an agenda with religious white protestants? While we have the Religious Right pushing prayer in school, the 10 C's and morality laws the black churches seem to support Democratic candidates that oppose these measures. Why?

Is there an institutional racism here? Is the Religious Right inherently bigoted towards non-whites? Or is this purely a difference in priority?

Orpheous99

The religious reich have always wanted to impose their belief system on all. Blacks, which at times past were kept as slaves by the ancestors of these same people, would understand more why imposing one's beliefs on all against their will is wrong and immoral.

sighhswolf

I dont know if the religious right is bigoted
against blacks, but the majority of blacks have traditionally been democrats.
The simple fact is that the republican parties agenda and economic concepts do not favor the
lower and middle class demographic.
Be they white , black or gray.

Beelzebub

IMHO, a lot of the religious right motivation is that WASP's are losing their majority status in the U.S. This applies equally to "prayer in schools" and "flag burning". It's not just about religion. It's about control of the culture. Blacks were the losers when these people controlled things before, so why support them now?

sullster

This topic makes me think about how I have always had different reactions to fundamentalist whites and fundamentalist blacks. I always feel anger and offense when anything from white fundies comes up. Yet, black fundies never rile me up, even if they say the same theistic drivel.

I am an atheist white guy from a Northern damn yankee state, yet if I were travelling in the South and my car broke down, I would feel better about going into a black baptist church than a white one to ask for help. I just feel that the whites would be nasty and would insult me by damning me to their god's hell and then telling me that there was no help to be had. The blacks seem like they would be friendly, not bring up religion, except in friendly terms and help me on my way. Strange feelings,no? I just can't get all worked into my anti-theist frenzies when I think of black theists.

As far as the religious right goes, I think blacks know darn well that the type of society that the fundy elite envisions, doesn't do them that much good. What use do they have for a repressive theocratic society, they of all people, know what a repressive society is like.

ImGod

It seems like such a big jump from the first to the second paragraph. It's a stretch to label the general religious right as racist because they have a different religious agenda than the religious left.

It makes sense that the political aspects mentioned above contribute to the differences in the two groups.