In Watts, One God, Two Cultures

So what? The fact is that most Blacks are probably baptists or methodists or pentecostal. Most Hispanics are catholic. I am a White presbyterian.

You probably will not find too many Muslims and christians worshiping together. This is a non-story.

Blacks and Latinos have different cultures and different worshipping styles, just like Whites, and this isn’t going to change. Why don’t these social engineering types just give it up and let people do what they want and stop trying to force that which is not wanted.

Where is Commissar Obama to decry that “sunday is the most segregated day in America.” We clearly need to a federal program to force these people to integrate.

“…Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts is a forbidding place, plagued by violence and poverty…”

In another life, that I’d like to forget, I used to pass this wretched housing project on my way to work. One of my female colleagues had the driver’s side window of her car smashed in while stopped at a red light directly in front of the project, her purse grabbed and the jewelry from around her neck ripped off. The criminals would lie in wait, wait for the light to turn red, run out and rob stopped motorists then scurry like rats back into the projects.

The ‘red light rip-offs’ became so bad around Nickerson Garden that it was eventually surrounded by a fence made up of closely-spaced metal posts, about eight feet high, curved inward toward the projects, with each metal post tipped by a large sharp spike.

Also this from the article:

”’…In reality, many of Banks’ efforts to bring blacks and Latinos together have ended…with less interaction than he would have liked…”

Gimme a Break!

Another in a long line of foolish White do-gooders, this one from the church, who believes he is going to ‘break down racial barriers’, ‘help burst preconceptions’ and ‘break down prejudices’ and then is shocked, Shocked! when HIS preconceived notions of ‘universal harmony among men of all colors’ are proved so wrong.

Reminds me of the young, miseducated Teach For America types, full of marxist clap-trap, who believe THEY will be able to accomplish universal peace in violent ghetto schools and save non-White children from evil, murderous Whites. And why not, they’re taught all their lives that this is an achievable, possible, desirable, heroic goal.

Maybe, just maybe, the preconceptions and prejudices the hispanics and blacks have for each other are justified. And maybe they don’t want to be forced together, just as most Whites would rather be around their own kind.

Do you think after 30 years Father Banks has reached this inevitable conclusion? Nah, he’ll ask for more donations to continue his work.

Bon

One of my female colleagues had the driver’s side window of her car smashed in while stopped at a red light directly in front of the project, her purse grabbed and the jewelry from around her neck ripped off

This happened to a girlfriend of mine in Myrtle Beach, S.C. idling on the BLVD in traffic in her Corvette a black walking between traffic suddenly reached in, grabbed $30,000 worth of gold from around her neck and ran away. I’m lucky in that I have friends in low places and WE caught him later.

“His Latino congregants might be surprised to learn that violent crime was down at Nickerson, that gangs were not as pervasive as they once were and that, contrary to stereotype, a majority of the residents are Latinos.”

Is Bloomekatz implying that since Latinos have become the majority in this project, violent crime and gang activity have gone down? If so, that would be more of a miracle than any priest could ever pray for! Get real!

“In reality, many of Banks’ efforts to bring blacks and Latinos together have ended like the posada at Nickerson Gardens, with less interaction than he would have liked.”

…and there seems to be no evidence to suggest that his “efforts” will magically bring about the change he desires if the results have always been the same in the past; “in reality,” that is.

Padre, you need a reality check and so does Ari Bloomekatz!

Thomas wrote at 6:15 PM on June 12:

“So what? The fact is that most Blacks are probably baptists or methodists or pentecostal. Most Hispanics are catholic.”

For years now Latinos (along with Whites) in the United States have been leaving the Catholic Church in droves. In fact, it’s gotten so bad that according to recent studies less than 60% of Latinos now identify themselves as Catholic.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2002-12-12-hispanic-catholics_x.htm

While some of them are being drawn to other churhces (like the Pentecostals), the largest segment of them appear to be following Whites into a secular lifestyle. This is no doubt the main reason why the Catholic Church is going gung-ho to smuggle illegals into this country. It’s a transparently desperate attempt to fill rapidly emptying pews.

The only pertinent line in this article:

“The Latino visitors walked briskly through a parking lot and into Nickerson’s gym, some casting nervous glances over their shoulders.”

Nobody likes blacks (including other blacks) and everyone knows why, even if they don’t want to admit it. That’s the main reason why you can’t get anyone (in appreciable numbers, anyway) to want to worship with them if they can help it.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

http://www.apa.org/science/fmri-adult.pdf (see pg. 20)

What bothers me as a faithful Catholic is that priests, for the most part, still believe in the typical idea of the leftist-establishment that people can transcend race or break down racial barriers. If this were the case, then why are there still in existence different races? This priest should be worried about his flock’s Faith, their individual and group morality, and all other concerns that every Catholic community has. Introducing another race into the equation (another race that probably isn’t even Catholic, but it wouldn’t matter even if they were) does nothing but complicate the already-desperate attempt to get people to live moral lives by Catholic standards.

Let’s hope that traditionalist Catholics start to gain more influence in the Church—they will put an end to this madness.

There is also the fact that most blacks are protestants and most hispanics are Roman catholics.

But I guess that the ignorant idiot that wrote this never learned that in his multicural garbage college classes.

This posada thing is another manifestation of the California catholic church’s total rejection of any other kind of catholic than mexican. It’s only a mexican custom by the way, unheard of in other spanish language countries.

I well remember being in a Roman Catholic church in a totally white anglo area near LAX, Westchester, the Loyala University Chapel. Around the middle of the service a bunch of mexican kids marched up the aisle dressed up in nativity scene customes and did their posada thing. There was no mention in the program that this would occur. The kids were bussed in from somewhere.

Then at the coffee and pastry time after the service, the priest who brought the kids did a presentation about Posada.

I was totally offended. The white anglo irish type parish will be invaded by mexicans soon enough.

One thing I know about the American Roman Catholic Church. Until it decided to kick the rest of us in the teeth to mexicanize itself, the church always resisted what it called “national churches”.

This meant that the official position by both the pope and the cardinals and bishops who carry out his orders did not allow the different immigrants to split off into italian catholic factions, german factions, polish factions, slovak factions, croatian factions etc.

As late as the 1960’s there were very small towns in Nebraska and Kansas that had 2 roman catholic churches. One would be Irish English, the other would be German, or Bohemian, or some sort of eastern european, even though the parishioners were in the case of the eastern europeans 3rd generation, and in the cases of the irish english, descendents of old settlers from the 1700’s

The church wanted all american catholics to belong to one church. Now it has changed and wants a seperate mexican church.

When a parish goes mexican, naturally posadas and that stupid wedding parade church service without a groom that they hold the morning of the qunicerianna will come naturally.

But the church does not want to wait. They want the church to become mexican indian peon culturally.

“Is Bloomekatz implying that since Latinos have become the majority in this project, violent crime and gang activity have gone down? “

It is very true. The more hispanics move in, the lower the crime rate in Nickerson Gardens.

There is nothing wrong with people worshiping and congregating with their own kind.