{"id":893,"date":"2013-07-02T22:18:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T02:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=893"},"modified":"2013-07-02T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T02:19:32","slug":"paula-deen-and-the-anti-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2013\/07\/paula-deen-and-the-anti-racists.html","title":{"rendered":"Paula Deen and the &#8220;Anti-Racists&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 30 years ago, when she was but an obscure employee at a bank, Paula Deen was robbed at gunpoint by a black man who she had previously tried to help procure a loan.\u00a0 While relaying her harrowing tale to her husband, Deen used \u201cthe N-word\u201d in connection with her assailant.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the celebrity chef has been crucified by the agents of the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC), the \u201canti-racists\u201d whose every waking moment, supposedly, is devoted to eradicating \u201cracism\u201d from the land.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the usual suspects who have been tireless in their hand wringing over Deen aren\u2019t in the least bit concerned with \u201cracism.\u201d\u00a0 In fact, they aren\u2019t even concerned much with Deen.\u00a0 Rather, the latter\u2014a white, Southern, Christian, heterosexual, and remarkably successful \u201ccapitalist\u201d\u2014is a proxy for the very America that leftists have been determined to \u201cfundamentally transform,\u201d as Barack Obama has said, for close to a century.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201canti-racists\u201d want to humiliate Deen not for who <i>she <\/i>is, but for what she <i>represents: <\/i>an America that they\u2019ve longed to relegate to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n<p>To see that \u201cracism\u201d has nothing to do with this, one need only consider the brouhaha over Deen in light of the deafening silence with which these very same \u201canti-racists\u201d greet the shocking degree and nature of black-on-white violence.<\/p>\n<p>An especially grisly tale from Knoxville, Tennessee supplies one particularly instructive illustration of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>University of Tennessee student Channon Christian and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, couldn\u2019t have envisioned the horror that would define their last night alive when they set out together on January 7, 2007.\u00a0 That night, the young white couple would be carjacked, abducted, repeatedly raped, beaten, tortured, and eventually murdered by four blacks from East Knoxville: \u00a0George \u201cDetroit\u201d Thomas, Lemaricus \u201cSlim\u201d Davidson, Letalvis \u201cRome\u201d Cobbins, and Vanessa Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Assistant U.S. Attorney David Jennings, the <i>Knoxville News Sentinel <\/i>reported that Christian and Newsom were forced to \u201cendure one of the most horrendous, hellacious days anyone could ever endure [.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knox County Acting Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan \u201ctold jurors that Newsom was repeatedly raped and then blindfolded, gagged, arms and feet bound and his head covered.\u00a0 Barefoot, he was either led or dragged outside the house to a set of nearby railroad tracks, where a gun was placed to the back of his head and fired.\u00a0 He was shot twice more, once in the neck and once in the back.\u00a0 His body was then set on fire [.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Christian, she \u201csuffered horrific injuries to her vagina, anus and mouth\u201d as a result of being both raped and \u201csavaged with \u2018an object\u2019 [.]\u201d\u00a0 She was also \u201cbeaten in the head\u201d and had a chemical agent forced down her throat and scrubbed all over her body, \u201cincluding her bleeding and battered genital area\u201d\u2014and \u201call while she was alive [.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Christian\u2019s ordeal wasn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>Later, she was \u201c\u2018hog tied\u2019 with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered tightly with a small white trash bag and her body stashed inside five large trash bags before being placed inside a large trash can and covered with sheets [.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner concluded that \u201cChristian died slowly, suffocating [.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past May, George Thomas was found guilty\u2014again.\u00a0 And yet to judge from the national press, none of this had ever happened.<\/p>\n<p>Good chances are, very few readers are familiar with this story.\u00a0 But this is the point: had the races of the perpetrators and victims in Knoxville been reversed, there isn\u2019t a person in America\u2014and probably beyond\u2014who wouldn\u2019t know about it.\u00a0 It would inspire books, television shows, films, and college seminars.\u00a0 It\u2019s all that the \u201canti-racists\u201d would talk about.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world, however, they only have Paula Deen to fuss over.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate, the \u201canti-racists\u201d are most definitely <i>not 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