Blaming the Republicans for Threats against Ian and Chrissy
Posted by Adam Graham in : Idaho Conservative, TheBSU football player Ian Johnson and his fiancee Chrissy Popadics have been receiving some vile threats related to race. According to a news report:
The couple will marry today. Johnson has reported receiving more than 30 threatening letters and phone calls from inside and outside Idaho.
Thirty people, some in Idaho, some out of state. It’s awful that that this happened, but this doesn’t reflect who Idaho is or who Americans are.
Tim Burkhart writes a letter to the Editor blaming Republicans and Idaho in general for this situation:
Why is it that racial and cultural ignorance is so prevalent when it involves white and black?
I don’t think thirty people is prevalent. It’s a tiny minority.
I was raised in the Midwest and lived in California for a short time. In those parts of the country (as others) diversity is simply part of society. Idaho sorely lacks racial diversity. I was shocked at how white this state is when I moved here. However, after my first year in Boise, I now understand that it will probably remain a white state for as long as it is dominated by narrow-minded Republican politicians. Let’s face it. Republicans just don’t understand average Americans.
I guess that would be why we Republicans have elected a Hispanic Superintendent of Public Instruction. Right. I think painting people with a broad brush show it’s own special type of arrogance and prejudice. I think it is fairly commonplace here in Idaho to see an inter-racial couple. All the Black people, I’ve personally known here in Idaho are married inter-racially. It’s not a shock. Mamie Oliver understands the real cause as she told Dan Popkey:
But what’s happened to the couple has nothing to do with Idaho’s rank as the seventh-whitest state in the nation, Oliver said.
Instead, she said, it’s about human nature.
“There’s some people that have the attitude that people don’t have the right to be in love with who they’re in love with. It became the black young man proposing to the white girl. People have baggage, and it just caused that stuff to come out.”
Of course, how much is in-state and how much is out of state is not something that’s even mentioned. Regardless, all the best to Ian and Chrissy as they begin their new life together.
Comment by BillH
30 nasty letters, and not all from Idaho, eh? If Idaho is the 7th “whitest” state in America (only liberals keep track of that btw)and out of 1.5 million people they only generated fewer than 30 hate mails for the “biggest wedding of the year”, I can only say “Shame on our silly media for even reporting it!” I’d guess most of the conservative bloggers get that many in a normal week
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Comment by Adam Graham
Well, I don’t know if I get that many threats, generally just two death threats a week from Binky Boy. Still, it doesn’t have anything to do with Republicans and making it a partisan issue shows incredible pettiness.
Comment by YMG
To label it as a Republication issue is a cheap shot. However, if majority of the population in Idaho are registered Republicans then there could be some truth in that. Having even one person bring up the issue of interracial marriage should be a concern to all of us. What happens between two people in love should be respected. I’ve lived in Idaho for almost 13 years and have lived in several different parts of the world. I have spoken to many people who will say they are open to diversity, welcome it, but at the same time, tell you the reason why you didn’t get the promotion is because “you just don’t fit in the community” “we picked someone who fits the community”, and when pressed to explain what do you mean “fits the community” – they say, just look at the people living in that community, you’ll know what we mean. So, I’m glad this came out in the media. We need to really look at how our prejudice has gone underground and how we continue to make excuses for the 30 people who expressed a lot of people’s point of view. Yes, we may have gotten rid of the physical buildings that represented “white supremacy”. But, it’s more difficult to eradicate the mental secrets of the individual mind.