Revealing Racism Among the Pious

THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY pays attention, to everything. Public education and higher education combine to produce assiduous scholars whose work illuminates the world, and makes our modern high standard of living possible. this is why republicans, fifty eight percent of whom say that higher education is detrimental to the United States are, to say the least, way off base, as usual. The fact that institutions of higher learning tend to be populated by liberals is not, as conservatives tend to believe , because a liberal conspiracy has insidiously taken control of higher education, with designs on the rest of America, but rather, because people who hang around college campuses tend to be intelligent. While Obama was president, a scholar or two devised an interesting experiment. Knowing full well that Obama is black, but that whoever followed him into the presidency would likely be a white male, our inquisitive scholars went out among the evangelical Christian community with but a single question: should the president of the United States be forgiven his sins? thirty percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. yes, of course, the president, like everyone else, should be forgiven, assuming repentance. Seventy percent did not agree. Sure enough, Trump, who is a white male, succeeded Obama, and our intrepid questionnaire bearers sallied forth again, with the exact same question. this time, seventy two percent declared that, indeed, the president should be forgiven his sins. Obama, who probably sins no more than, and probably much less than the rest of us, a quick background check reveals, lost the voted by forty two percent. Trump, the New England Patriots of sin, as accomplished, demonstrably, as anyone who ever boasted of his ability to sexually molest women with impunity, the winner by a landslide. Why the difference? The only possible conclusion is that the survey reveals a visceral disdain for Obama, and a pr3eference for Trump, either because Obama is a "liberal" democrat, black, or both, or because Trump is a "conservative", white, or both. Italics because neither man can be neatly placed within the respective political categories. Obama is certainly far from liberal, and Trump is not a true conservative, but rather, a political chameleon, available to any popularity-measuringy poll taker. The indisputable remaining factor is race. Thus, the evangelical community has exposed itself as racist. Not that this is anything new, or that anyone should be surprised.