A Birmingham Baptist church is targeting Black voters with a sign calling those who plan to vote for Trump "ignorant stupid negroes."
"Attention to all blacks who plan to vote for Trump," the sign outside New Era Baptist Church reads, "you are an ignorant stupid negro." The other side says, "Warning African Americans: A vote for Trump will put Blacks back to picking cotton."
That word may be ordinary in Spanish, but something tells me (the complete lack of other Spanish words, as well as the context) that in this case it was meant in the "archaic" form.
Also idk if it's "archaic at worst," "at worst" it is still a slur in many contexts. Like, you can talk about The Negro League in historical context referring to baseball and be completely fine, but you absolutely cannot go up to someone and say "What up my Ne--o" (gonna bleep that one, but leave enough context so you can tell it's not intended to be the other one.) "You are an ignorant stupid ne--o" seems to fit squarely in the context of slur to me and imo its use here is in bad taste at best and frankly I think it is racist.
Not that I disagree with hating trump, I just think hating trump so hard you become racist isn't really a good solution to the problem, and the church could probably rework that sign.
I mean I agree with the sentiment, but churches have been openly discussing and endorsing specific political views and candidates for quite a while now, and this trend is getting more and more widespread and extreme.
This church hurt my feelings so their First Amendment rights should be violated.
I agree that churches playing politics should be taxed as long as the law is applied consistently. With 100% certainty this Trumper would shit his pants in rage if the such justice occurred to a MAGA church.
In fact, all churches should be taxed. Those doing charitable work can apply for the nonprofit status like everyone else.
According to US case law. The power to tax is the power to destroy, so the state government cannot tax federal government.
There are several arguments for taxing church and I can't help but think that soon we will be just having a closer relationship between church and state if the pastors start pandering for the current government.
He believes diversity is a bad thing so getting diversified is not something he wants happening to him. I don't think it goes beyond that, just a dumb fascist being a dumb fascist.
This church has an almost entirely black congregation and is led by a black pastor. I am A+ 100% OK with them using edgy language to call out racism. I'm glad they're being so vocal about it.
I sure do hope Trump's hiring a racist comedian and Speaker Johnson's self-defeating stupidity is enough to overcome Democrat's self-defeating stupidity.
Whomever came up with this should be investigated for voter intimidation. Threatening people with slavery if they don't vote for your preferred candidate is not only stupid but illegal.