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Liberal media say I'm racist

By Mark Canipe. D.Min.
Beech Island, S.C.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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    Until recently, I had no idea I was a racist. I pastor a local church, where we have black and Hispanic members and deacons. Last year, I performed five interracial marriages. One of my best friends in the ministry is a black pastor.

    However, according to the liberal media, I am a racist. The reasons are that I do not agree with the new health-care law; auto-industry bailouts; bank bailouts; stimulus spending; high debts and deficits; same-sex marriage; an anti-Israel policy; never-ending entitlements, etc. Well, actually, it does not matter what I disagree with, because if I disagree with any policy or stance of this present administration, then it has to be because I am a racist.

    This is not to mention that I am a white, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-Constitution, conservative Christian. Now I guess I am considered evil also. I’m too scared to even mention the Tea Party!

    Mark Canipe. D.Min.

    Beech Island, S.C.

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    Insider Information
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    Insider Information 06/26/12 - 01:52 am
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    If you check the Democratic

    If you check the Democratic playbook (written by Saul Alinsky), it tells you that when all else fails dust off the ole race card and play it over and over and over again.

    myfather15
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    myfather15 06/26/12 - 03:23 am
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    The last sentence in your

    The last sentence in your article explains the entire liberal agenda. It is what they hope for and the ultimate goal they shoot for. That you will soon be to SCARED to stand up against them. To SCARED to make a stand for strong morals. To SCARED to question any liberal policies. To SCARED to make your voice heard. To SCARED to stand up for God!!! Scared of losing your job. SCARED of losing respect. SCARED of what people might preceive you to be. SCARED to tell the truth. SCARED to use common sense. SCARED to be called bigot. SCARED to be called racist. SCARED to be called homophobe. SCARED to be called sexist. SCARED to be called insensitive. SCARED to be called intolerant.

    They just want good conservative people to be plain SCARED. Well, I can tell you one thing, this MAN is NOT SCARED. I shall never be scared and when that day comes and it shall come. I will stand STRONG and do whatever I must to stand for my prinicpals.

    Jon Lester
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    Jon Lester 06/26/12 - 03:27 am
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    Saul Alinsky was a great American.

    And you, as a pastor, ought to at least know the commandment forbidding bearing false witness, as well as numerous admonitions in scripture against gossip and hearsay.

    News flash: the house of David was not "Caucasian."

    carcraft
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    carcraft 06/26/12 - 03:54 am
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    Jon Lester-No, I believe it

    Jon Lester-No, I believe it was mideastern and Jewish!

    copperhead
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    copperhead 06/26/12 - 05:41 am
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    A liar is a liar no matter

    A liar is a liar no matter what their skin color! A failure is a failure no matter what their skin color!

    dade30906
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    dade30906 06/26/12 - 06:10 am
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    Our nation is now facing an

    Our nation is now facing an ugly backlash of racism and intolerance, especially since the election of Barck Obama - and also a frightening rebirth of anti - Semitism, homophobia, and other crippling prejudices hate crimes have sky rocketed since president took office. Racism in American is taught to our children and spread like a virus across our communities by conservative news media with hate in their hearts. But people were not born to hate.

    copperhead
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    copperhead 06/26/12 - 06:15 am
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    dade30906,are ALL non-black

    dade30906,are ALL non-black Americans racists and haters?

    nofanofobama
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    nofanofobama 06/26/12 - 06:21 am
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    lester explain the false

    lester explain the false witness*the news media does protray opposition to obama as racism..without the white vote he would never been prez..*obama squaudered the good will of all americans by being so partison, liberal and by having a messiah complex**and why has david not being white relevant...only liberals like to classify people by gender and race..

    allamr18
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    allamr18 06/26/12 - 07:21 am
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    Saul Alinsky?

    You guys find the most obscure people to attach to the democratic party. Ive been a democrat for at least 14 years and I havent heard of of Saul Alinsky until Republicans told me I read him. Or George Soros or some of the other I guess big scary old democrats. Just as an aside I think anytime people have to quantify how many people of color they know it always looks rather odd.
    all the stuff you talked about are legitimate things to disagree with, but for us as democrats how is it that literally no complaints about these things were made prior to this administration coming into office? The auto bailout, bank bailout, stimulus, high debts and defecit happend prior to this administration. Im not blaming bush because I know how much republicans hate that their republican president do all those things, but i mean it did happen under him. Health care medicare part d happened under bush, expansion of government in education under bush, three new govt agencies were created under bush. And this level of vitriol and discontent aimed at the current administration for what happened under Bush leads democrats to think why? what is different about it now? Is it bc hes black? I dont know but what else causes it?

    Iwannakno
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    Iwannakno 06/26/12 - 08:09 am
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    Race card...

    Unpublished

    southernguy08
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    southernguy08 06/26/12 - 08:36 am
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    ALLAMR

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    Bizkit
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    Bizkit 06/26/12 - 08:37 am
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    I love the progressive

    I love the progressive mindset because they believe there are races so actually they are the racist. There are no biological races only ethnicities. Then the ignorance that the line of David wasn't caucasian. Absolutely false- the caucasians are aryan , semitic , and hamitic (or Proto-IndoEuropean, Proto-Semitic, or Prot-Dravidian if you prefer)-it isn't your skin color dummies (that's an american adaptation but it is a gene pool). As long as you judge by skin color then you are racial profiling and a racist-just what progressives complained about in Ariz.

    Bizkit
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    Bizkit 06/26/12 - 08:44 am
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    Allamra, I know it is hard to

    Allarma, I know it is hard to keep up. Fundamentalist Christians took over and morphed the GOP, and while we were sleeping progressives took over the Dem Party. Personally, I am not one for either extreme, and the reason I've abandoned either political party. I miss Clinton Democrats.

    Bizkit
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    Bizkit 06/26/12 - 08:52 am
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    Dade racism is taught and it

    Dade racism is taught and it associates with low socioeconomic groups. So poor whites, blacks, hispanics, asians and other ethnicities are statistically likely to be racist. It isn't a white problem but an education problem. But this is America so no matter how much it offends people do have the right to be prejudiced against any group they like-as long as they aren't violent. So people can hate blacks, jews, whites, asians, christians, atheist, Rep, Dem,homosexuals, heterosexuals, asexuals, etc,etc, etc. It is a part of diversity. The problem is you can't legislate a change a heart (with hate crimes) but you can educate one.

    allhans
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    allhans 06/26/12 - 09:35 am
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    More of the same, day after

    More of the same, day after day....
    Can we just copy and paste this..."we dislike Obama because he is black. It has nothing to do with his destructive policies" (- :

    howcanweknow
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    howcanweknow 06/26/12 - 09:38 am
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    Jon Lester

    Where, specifically, has the Pastor lied or gossiped? Can you please give specifics?

    Or, it is that you can't argue with a single point the Pastor made, so you can only resort to baseless slander yourself?

    KSL
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    KSL 06/26/12 - 10:17 am
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    allamr

    Hillary did her thesis on Alinsky. It was locked up for awhile, pretty much like Obama's past still is. Mr. Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is in use by the progressives in the dem party.

    iLove
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    iLove 06/26/12 - 10:59 am
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    House of David

    Unpublished

    iLove
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    iLove 06/26/12 - 11:05 am
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    Maybe not YOU but...

    Unpublished

    KSL
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    KSL 06/26/12 - 11:06 am
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    Caucassian??

    Caucassian??

    Iwannakno
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    Iwannakno 06/26/12 - 12:03 pm
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    How many indeed?

    Unpublished

    burninater
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    burninater 06/26/12 - 12:04 pm
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    The liberal media is calling

    The liberal media is calling this man racist? Strange. I just did a google news search of this man and only found this editorial. Are we supposed to know who this man is?

    KSL
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    KSL 06/26/12 - 12:21 pm
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    Burn, come on. You know what

    Burn, come on. You know what he meant. Posters here do the same thing. It happens everyday.

    DMPerryJr
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    DMPerryJr 06/26/12 - 12:21 pm
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    Do Like I Do -

    Just don't watch TV. Your grandma called it "The Idiot Box" for a reason - all the idiots live inside of that thing.

    Why worry about what the media thinks of you?

    I'm with myfather15: I ain't SCARED of anything the media or anybody else has to say about me. I'll call a spade a spade and if you don't like it, well....that's your problem.

    burninater
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    burninater 06/26/12 - 12:34 pm
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    Actually KSL, I really

    Actually KSL, I really thought he meant it. I'm predisposed to take the word of religious leaders at face value -- my time in the South is rapidly curing me of that.

    Southern Leslie
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    Southern Leslie 06/26/12 - 12:53 pm
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    The President referred to

    Unpublished

    DMPerryJr
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    DMPerryJr 06/26/12 - 12:57 pm
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    The ironic thing

    is that the letter writer is also a Democrat from Minnesota. Says so right beside his name.

    InChristLove
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    InChristLove 06/26/12 - 01:03 pm
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    burninator, evidently you

    burninator, evidently you haven't been in the South long enough to understand the southern language. Mr. Canipe said "However, according to liberal media" which mean based on the description, reasons, and guidelines set by the liberal media, not that the local media "personally" called him a racist. By using those guidelines as a description of a racist person, he would falls into the category. Doesn't mean those guidelines are accurrate (in fact they are not accurrate) so Mr. Canipe still holds his integrity.

    Southern Leslie
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    Southern Leslie 06/26/12 - 01:04 pm
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    I believe that is Doctor of

    Unpublished

    howcanweknow
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    howcanweknow 06/26/12 - 01:23 pm
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    I had the opportunity to meet

    I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Canipe a few years back. You'll never meet a more pleasant, intelligent, friendly, and caring individual. This is a good guy who lives what he preaches.

    I'd listen to what he says.

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