What is the white culture ?

Equality 7-2521.

The US constitution says very clearly that there shall be no religious preaching on state owned property (for example schools) or financed by the state. That's why the US army had to remove a consignment of ammo which had bible references written on them. The US constitution also bans the schools from starting their lessons with prayers. This in state owned schools in state owned properties. The conservative right around Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin is therefore running up against the US constitution in their demand for prayers in the schools.

The US Constititution also bans the state and the US people from vetoing the building of a mosque at Ground Zero. A veto from President Obama in this case would had been unconstitutional. Those who demanded a veto therefore acted against the US constitution. 

The US constitution is perhaps the most liberal and personal freedom minded constitution ever written. It is a piece of pure brilliance. That's why the majority of the democratic states set up post year 1790 has copied the major pillars of the US constitution.  

 

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - August 30 2010 at 09:04

I take it you've never watched a C-SPAN viewer call in. 

Here is a taste of 'white culture' English style. Makes me well up with pride, it does..

Morris dancing

Edited by Blacksword - August 30 2010 at 09:52

The Norwegian constitution still says (paragraph 2) that the country is ruled by the Protestant Christian faith. The ban on Jesuits and the Jews from entering Norway was not good liberal thinking too..... But humanity and common sense won the day some decades later and a debt of gratitude is paid back to  Henrik Wergeland every 17th of May. 

The US constitution says no religion has any place in the state. This partially based on the bad experiences from England, who persecuted the Irish catholics and their own catholics without remorse. Mayflower was in fact quakers seeking asylum in America. This is the things in the US constitution which some on the religious right is fighting. You will find them in the Tea Party.  

But I agree that the Norwegians constitution is a great document we are rightly proud of.

Btw. I don't like the fanatics on the left in the USA either. I am not subscribing to the idea that George Bush was a horrible man who ate small children for breakfast. I think he was a well meaning man not up for the job. Neither do I subscribe to the idea that Jon Stewart and others gurus on the left are fantastic people. I am a middle of the road conservative dull man who does not like change whatsoever.  

To hell with the tea party.  I'm joining the Big Mac, Fries and a Diet Coke party which is mostly made up of folks who don't give a sh*t about anything.

As for there being only blacks in church in the US.  You gotta stop getting all your cultural information from Tyler Perry movies.

And anyway, where I come from most of the white people are not very cultured at all....aint that right Cletus?


Edited by Trademark - August 30 2010 at 10:38

TheClosing wrote: Never take responsibility is their motto. At the start of the election all you heard about was how great Reganomics are. Then things went sour and they shut up real quick about it. So now they're trying to pin it on the colored guy like he's had time to screw everything up. Never mind the real roots like deregulation of the financial sector that's taken decades to feel the true effects. Conservative is just another world for moron. Things need to improve because the old way just won't cut it forever, OBVIOUSLY.

The real culprit of our boom-bust economic cycle has been government involvement in the economic sector. And as much as you hate to accept it, the "old way" (large excessive federal debt, protectionist trade policies with high tariffs which kill economic competition and encourage monopolies, federal control of the money supply) are liberal policies which have been around since Wilson, if not Lincoln. There hasn't been true de-regulation  of the financial sector since Jackson and even then he had his hand in executive orders such as the Specie Circular


Edited by mr.cub - August 30 2010 at 10:52

Considering that blacks only make up about 12.4% of the US's total population, and considering that 76.5% of people in US identify as Christian (whether they are genuinely Christian or not), it cannot be the case that most Christians in the US are black.

Epignosis wrote: Considering that blacks only make up about 12.4% of the US's total population, and considering that 76.5% of people in US identify as Christian (whether they are genuinely Christian or not), it cannot be the case that most Christians in the US are black.

Percentage wise of the two communities, my friend. 

I am still confused when it comes to what is supposed to be my culture....

Would you say Christianity is a white culture, Epignosis ? 

I would say that Christianity is a religion and not a culture in and of itself.  I would say that shared shared religion can be a part of an overall culture.  Whites and blacks in the US are predominately Chrisitan in their faiths, but celebrate those faiths  (often) in different ways (styles of worship).  Christianity is (pr was) a part of the US culture AND it is also part of the separate black and white sub-cultures in this country.

The problem that you are running into is in trying to make serious sense out of a statement that was meant only to anger and inflame emotions.  Once again television personalities (Glen Beck is an entertainer not a serious journalist) are not the best source for information.  Trying to make sense of this is a futile as putting a camel therough the eye of a needle.