Say No to Racism

The article on Ethics Daily today entitled "Georgia Speeds Down Arizona's Anti-Immigration Highway" is unwelcome but not unexpected news. My son and I discussed the racism of the South last week as I was helping him move his family from California to Georgia.

Monica, my daughter-in-law, is a Mexican national and rightfully proud of her nationality. She is a fully documented, legal immigrant in this country. She found California to be an open and welcoming community after experiencing some mild racial profiling in Oklahoma. She's braced herself for worse in Georgia.

I would like to be able to tell her that Baptists have put their racist past behind them, but we all know that Baptists still comprise the bulk of the racists in the South.