White liberals think that because non-white minorities tend to vote for Democrats in America, therefore the Darker People (as they think of them) in the rest of the world must be secular liberals.
This is exacerbated by American universities, which, in their zeal to foist their warped ideology on young minds, trains non-whites to think of their skin color first in their intellectual formation. The schools also established things like Third World Studies and African Studies, where entire regions are seen primarily through the prism of exploitation, colonialism, and racism.
So it must be a continuing surprise every time the Darker People show they have not only minds of their own, but spines. How much more awful when the DP, having received the Gospel, refuse to abandon it for money.
The Anglican bishops of Africa deeply disagree with their Anglo-American co-religionists on the acceptance of homosexual acts and unions. Their faith teaches them that those acts are gravely sinful. While they are poor, they refuse to give in to their richer (and increasingly less numerous) white brethren.
In their latest gutsy move, the African Anglican bishops have agreed to pull their theological students from corrupt Western schools:
The Primate of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, put it bluntly: "Now we have discovered that they have a new theology and a new religion we feel it would be dangerous for the future of our church to continue to send our own future leaders to those institutions."I nominate the Anglican bishops of Africa for the Catholic Light Total Badass award for November.
You wrote: "the Darker People (as they think of them)"
They don't think of thum (us?) this way, they (we?) are "people of colour." Note, not "Coloured people." Remember Genitive = PC Adjective = racist.
That was the subtext of my comment, Han. Most left-wingers are racialists at heart, if not racists. By "racism," I mean that they believe there are innate, morally significant differences between different races, and that some races are better than others. In other posts here on CL, I've shown examples of how the Left doesn't hold "people of color" morally accountable for their actions, the way they would if it were the Pale People performing the same actions. E.g., Arab terrorism is understandable and cannot be stopped any more than we can stop the wind, and we can't expect Arabs to stop blowing up buildings and beheading innocent people.
Mr. Johnson,
I understood what you meant, I was just piggybacking my own little gripe onto yours. Sorry for not being more clear.
Don't forget, some of the best Catholic priests visiting the USA are from "the dark continent." They come to go to college, they live at local rectories where there's room, they say Mass on weekends, and people can't get enough of them.