@snood,
snood wrote:
Okay, let's go for a moment with the assertion that the reason for their immediate, public, dramatic announcements of forgiveness come from their being "religious". How do you account for the fact that the only ones you see on tv making those personal absolutions of murderers are black people? Are white evangelical Christians somehow less religious? When a white person is murdered violently, do you ever see the FIRST reaction of white victim's families be to run out and pledge their forgiveness to the murderer? No, what we see are expressions of sorrow, and anger and a desire for justice. That is quite understandable, and human, and probably healthy.
These rushes to shower forgiveness on the perpetrators of violent crimes are not out of some self-nurturing religious faith.
In my own observations, white folk, that had a family member die, might make reference to the belief that he/she is looking down from Heaven at that moment that they are on camera? Would this imply that most Blacks being Baptist believe in Resurrection, rather than being in Heaven?
This "Forgiveness Pageant" that you have identified might have the positive result of taking white folks off of their "moral high ground high horse" with this forgiveness that others could not muster? As you well know, white folk have a short memory when they are the perpetrators of non-Christian behavior; just my Jewish opinion.
