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Originally Posted by Elphaba
I never said any Christian group should give up the cross. I never said anyone should give up the cross.
Oh please. Can we stop beating up on the gays?
What does this even mean?
The KKK burning the cross in front of a black family's house while it rapes and murders them is the equivalent to your friend’s inability to reveal her middle name? Is she going to be tortured or lynched for it? Does she spend her life in terror that someone is going to kill her because of her name?
…sigh…
I never said any church whatsoever should give up the cross, and it's a bit obtuse to assume I did.
I am referring to this lighted cross only. I am saying the AFA should not sell it because it is an image that could, for many people, represent unspeakable acts, not faith. Obviously that's what I saw, and I am not alone.
Additionally, it is not an image anyone gave up to them, them” being the KKK and other white supremacist groups.
To compare a burning cross to a regular cross is to be ignorant of its history. It is an image of vile hatred and atrocities, not Christianity.
It is the atrocities that insist the image of a burning cross is obscene.
Elphaba
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I confess when I looked at it, I saw only a Cross, such as you would see on a rooftop or on a church at Christmas. I didn't think of the Klu Klux Klan at all. I noticed other people saw the same thing. Some of them anyway. When I did read the posts about it being like a Klu Klux Klan cross I was somewhat surprised. Having lived most of my life in the SW and the NW, racism is not much a part of the picture in my life. I do believe racism exists, but that it is quickly fading and non-existent for many people today.
I don't see a burning cross.... just a lit cross.
Of course, my friend isn't going to be tortured to reveal her middle name. My only comparison there is that we shouldn't change the meaning of things to please a group who want to change it. The color purple or the word gay shouldn't be changed to mean homosexual, nor should a cross mean KKK. I'm not sure why the KKK started using the cross when terrorizing people. It's a bad fit.
I understand where you are coming from since the picture reminds you of a burning cross. I sincerely doubt if that was the intention, and certainly the AFA might want to revisit the idea of marketing it. It makes me curious to know how many black people have purchased it, and how many have the same response that you did.
Sister of Jared