tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post3694773790528640689..comments2024-01-08T12:37:24.482-08:00Comments on Living Armstrongism: PCG's Use of Racially Coded Words: Inner-City, Thug and GhettoRedfox712http://www.blogger.com/profile/17734930967002040931noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846567313402731847.post-31873840203403388062015-12-30T08:13:45.518-08:002015-12-30T08:13:45.518-08:00The three main buzz words or phrases have, or have...The three main buzz words or phrases have, or have had, widespread usage in the mainstream press and other media. In fact Tupac Shakur had "Thug Life" tattooed on his chest. When I was an insurance agent in a predominantly African American territory, some of my policyholders referred to their neighborhood as "the Ghetto."<br /><br />The problem is words and phrases are constantly evolving and being upgraded to adequately, kindly, or just plain equally, describe the circumstances surrounding minorities, especially Black people, and the ACOGs are deliberately behind the curve on this, not acknowledging or realizing that old school terminology has taken on negative connotations. When you use any words to label or limit people, newer, freer terms must come into play. A fundamentalist group that believes that change, or evolution is Satan's way, or actually degeneracy, even to the extent that they believe that the law of Moses is God's eternal law, rather than a specific application of the Royal Law of Love adapted for one dispensation, is going to have extreme difficulty supporting societal changes.<br /><br />Also, when a group arbitrarily assigns human value based on some sort of prejudicial hierarchy that they claim comes from the Bible, one in which certain ethnicities are deemed as "less than" for all eternity, any terms they would use come across as jeering in nature. The ACOGs reject and attempt to shut out the cultures of such groups, as we see in all church literature, depicting the influences as based on the jungle, or coming from Nimrod. Most polite society would recognize that for what it is: racism. God created all of the races, with both differences and similarities, and saw that that was good. Too bad that PCG cannot recognize that reality.<br /><br />BBByker Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602697337552385535noreply@blogger.com