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Urban Myths that Never Died
Rick Scarborough is leading a breakout session at the 2012 Voter Values Summit. He will retell his more than a decade old story of how he had an impact at Pearland, Texas. Rick is to lead a session named, "Debunking the Myth of Separation." Scarborough's legendary story of his activism in Texas has been shared from coast to coast. I have heard it over three times myself. According to the legend, Rick turned the tide and changed the region as Tom DeLay used to say. |
Truth is most of the influence Scarborough is supposed to have possessed would be hard to find. Few if any councilmen in the town probably even remember the story. Rick won't mention in his dramatic presentation the torn up church, divided city, deacon suicide nor his loss of political clout over his abuse of influence. He won't' mention the headline story in the Houston Chronicle about alleged corruption that resulted from the linking of First Baptist Pearland with the city council. The myth that Rick is the highly esteemed champion of values in the city just never seems to die. Voter Summits and the like keep repeating it.
Star Parker is onboard as a sponsor. Star likes to promote her version of American history that LBJ harmed Black people with his Great Society. Other Black leaders like Star suggest the entire movement might have been intended to harm black people.
Glenn Beck, the chief spokesperson for urban myths, will be there to spin his tales of government conspiracies. Tim Wildemon will add his portion to the movement with is views that FDR was a socialist. Liberty University is in the house. Their history as a university headed by a man who claimed government 501c3 was a mere attempt to silence pastors makes them a good fit. Liberty would like Scarborough's conspiracy theory that Christians are being banned from the public square. One of the larger Baptist churches in our own area sent us a recent letter warning that if we do not take a stand in this election we might be cast into jail in the near future.
The documentary, 2016 Obama's America, rehashes some of these old Obama theories about his true vision for America. Dinesh D'souza has created a film that is now being viewed by millions and it is challenging box office smashes for tickets purchased by movie goers. The Los Angeles Times claims the work is short on facts but long on opinions. The Washington Post commented on the film noting the view of the producer concerning the President is; "...by stripping wealth from the upper classes, bankrupting the country so it can be remade into a socialist state, depleting America's necular warheads and permitting a United States of Islam to align between Morocco and Pakistan and squelch Israel." D'souza is not as epic as the latest Obama scare in our region that states Obama is bringing in 100 million Muslims illegally into the nation to make this a Muslim country.
It takes a creative mind to conjure up urban myths. I was in my home state last week and heard a legendary story about catfish so large at the Oklahoma dams that they were eating divers. There are no real facts to back up these stories but it didn't stop River Monsters of the Animal Planet from running a series on it. It's almost as if society needs these myths to give us fodder for gossip.
Jackie Robinson was brought before Congress to response to the rumors that Blacks would not defend America if the Soviet Union attacked us. Southern culture still holds that King was a secret Communist. Jesse Helms, once granted a statesman of the year award by Southern Baptists, was the hold out for allowing the King national holiday. "Reliable sources " had confirmed that King was associated with known radicals and Communists. We ought not to be surprised when the Black President keeps being accused of these leanings, it goes with the myths.
Matt Taibbi wrote about these myths. Particularly the Truthers who believe 911 was orchestrated by the government. Truthers believe that the government secretly dropped portions of an old cargo jet in strategic places to make it appear as if a plane, not a missile, hit the Pentagon. This happened in front of workers, reporters and government workers and they never noticed. How can you ever use any logic with folks like this?
As Earl P. Holt III recently wrote about the Democratic Party in the Citizen s Informer, "In any event, this is an appropriate and fitting denouement for a party that has displaced the Communist Party of the United States as the most leftist, destructive and anti-American political party in our history, and the greatest obstacle to good government in more than a century." Earl and his crowd note this election is a mandate for the country to beware. As martial art king Church Norris,( imminent historian that he is) remarked, if Obama wins this will mean the loss of our civilization for the next 1,000 years. To these folks voting for the Democrat is as foolish as swimming next to the dam in an Oklahoma lake.
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