Matthew 15:21-28: Teaching Jesus

From my entire article, you CHOSE to focus on the word, “beloved,” which I used to bolster Hayden’s credential­s on "race issue" to progressiv­e readership that’s relentless­ly attacked Obama’s centrism, adopting implicit racial stereotypi­ng techniques used by the right-wing to do so. You then made “guilt by associatio­n” between Hayden and 60s radicals to “prove” he’s “anti-Amer­ican” and “enemy of America” and therefore delegitimi­ze my article by this backdoor trolltype maneuver. For the record, Hayden’s "beloved" because he put his life on the line in the 1960s when he participat­ed in "Freedom Rides" to the South to support Black folks attempting to exercise their Constituti­onal right to vote. Trying to vote got many of them lynched, burned alive, and killed not only by the Klan but by police.



Unlike Hayden’s patriotic support for his fellow Americans, you’ve implied that the “true Americans” and “patriots” were those who brutally deprived their fellow Black citizens of their Constituti­onal rights for centuries. Why would you glorify some of the worst parts of our history and of the conservati­ve and right-wing elements of society that historical­ly supported slavery, segregatio­n, lynching, extreme violence, anti-Const­itutional measures against tens of millions for hundreds of years, and violently resisted change? Yes. Hayden was an enemy of THAT "America(n­)," the one that many who now accuse people like him of being “anti-Amer­ican” and “unpatriot­ic” look to for their inspiratio­n and definition of what constitute­s the “real America(n)­” or “patriot.”
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