a church, really?

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/07/16/church-sign-generates-emotional-debate-over-race/

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CHICAGO (CBS) – A sign posted outside a south suburban church is generating a powerful debate over race in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict.

The marquee outside the First Baptist Church of University Park earlier this week read: “It Is Safe To Kill Black People In Amerikkka.”

On Saturday, a jury of six women in Florida acquitted Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Several comments on the church’s Facebook page took issue with the reference to the Ku Klux Klan in the word Amerikkka, with many saying the church’s sign is hateful and divisive and implies that all white Americans are racist.

The church responded by saying: “The message on the sign is not a message of hate. It is a message of awakening and call to action. It is a message not intended to divide, but to cause honest reflection in order to make this country a better place for ALL.”

The wording has historical precedence, according to the church’s Facebook page.

After the shooting of a black man by a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1949, Rev. Vernon Johns posted a sign outside the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church that read: “It Is Safe To Kill Negroes In Montgomery.”

The church has since changed the wording into a question: “Is It Safe To Kill Black People In America?”

“The initial sign, which has caused such a furor, stated, “It is safe to kill Black People in the United States of Amerikkka.” Much focus was placed on the intentional misspelling of America,” the church responded on its Facebook page.

“The use of “kkk”, was done to call attention to the fact that, just as in the ‘glory days of the KKK, it appears far too often that the murder of African Americans is permitted, and the mistreatment of African Americans historically and currently is far too cavalierly considered.”

wowOwow! where has the time gone?

i have not been 'round these parts' in ages. it seems the time 'tween visits is getting wider and wider. *sigh*

manOman! we used to have so friggin much fun with this bloggin' stuff when Spaces first started. i remember lurking for a quite a spell, cuz i had no idea what would happen if i actually posted a comment to one of these cyberstranger's blogs. then dear jockfullofnuts posted a blog about all his great *buys* he got at the dollar tree??? i laughed so hard while reading it that i could not help myself and i just HAD to comment. that post made me feel so happy inside and it made him real ... not just words on a screen. the blogs almost became my entire social life. i could not wait to get to the puter in the mornings just to see what i had missed the night before. good times indeed.

now, i mostly hang out on ecig/vaping forums. i'm over 2 years smoke-free and have almost replaced my "junque" addiction with a vape gear addiction, although i have slowed down on the vape gear purchasing considerably.

i still hit the thrift stores occasionally, but now i am generally focused on buying silk clothing to cut up for shirret rugs. the silk rugs take a helluva lot longer to make than the wool, but hey! it's good idiot work and they are pr'E trash art when finished. i s'pose i should call them 'repurposed art' - y'know to attempt to fit in with that *green* crowed.  haHaHA!   this, from a person that does not even recycle.

i'm actually working on a silk shirret jacket at the moment. it's taking f.o.r.e.v.e.r., but it was 97 degrees here yesterday, so it's not like i need to be in any hurry to finish it. :-/

that's all for now. i just wanted to give the government some of my useless text to take up space on their servers in their not-so-super-secret-anymore data vault.  ;-D