Mike Huckabee Solves America's Centuries-Old Problem Of Racism -- 'Convert To God'

Former US Governor Solves America's Centuries-Old Problem Of Racism
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Former Arkansas governor and Republican 2016 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee solved America’s centuries–old problem of racism on Tuesday. After the deadly shooting in Charleston last week in which nine African-Americans were killed in an historic church by a suspected white supremacist, Huckabee demanded the country stop talking about race and instead turn to God.

Speaking on Fox News, the former pastor applauded the decision of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley to remove the confederate flag from the statehouse, which many decry as an emblem of slavery and segregation, however said recriminations about race were unproductive.

“I keep hearing people saying we need more conversations about race,” Huckabee noted. “Actually we don’t need more conversations. What we need is conversions because the reconciliations that changes people is not a racial reconciliation, it’s a spiritual reconciliation when people are reconciled to God.”

The former pastor added: “When I love God and I know that God created other people regardless of their color as much as He made me, I don’t have a problem with racism. It’s solved!”

With that in mind, here are some passages from the Bible to help America heal:

Leviticus 25:44

  • Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

Exodus 21:20-21

  • Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

Ephesians 6:5

  • Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.

And finally this touching scene in which God orders the ancient Hebrews to engage in genocide against other tribes:

Deuteronomy 7:2-3

  • And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

And here's a blog that says the Bible has often been twisted and misused to justify racist acts, and argues that Scripture makes a strong case against racism and for racial equality.

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A man kneels across the street from where police gather outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church following the shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. (credit:Wade Spees / The Post And Courier / AP)
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Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of the shooting. A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church, killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A distraught man is comforted as a group of concerned people arrive inquiring about the shooting. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Charleston police officers search for a shooting suspect outside the Emanuel AME Church. (credit:Matthew Fortner / The Post And Courier / AP)
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Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle early Thursday, June 18, 2015, down the street from Emanuel following the shooting. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Worshippers gather to pray in a hotel parking lot across the street from the scene of the attack. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Worshippers gather to pray down the street from the Emanuel church. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Police close off a section of Calhoun Street near the church. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Charleston Emergency Management Director Mark Wilbert on Thursday holds a flier that was distributed to media with surveillance footage of a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting. (Photo: David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Surreace Cox, of North Charleston, South Carolina, holds a sign during a prayer vigil down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday. (Photo: David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Worshippers gather to pray in a hotel parking lot across the street from the church. (Photo: David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Rev. Sandy Drayton sheds a tear during a prayer vigil held at Morris Brown AME Church for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church on Thursday, June 18, 2015 in Charleston, S.C. (credit:Grace Beahm / The Post and Courier / AP)
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Parishioners listen during a memorial service at Morris Brown AME Church for the nine people killed Wednesday during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A parishioner prays during a memorial service at Morris Brown AME Church for the people killed Wednesday during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Police arrested 21-year-old suspect Dylann Storm Roof Thursday in Shelby, N.C. without resistance. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Natasha Wright speaks to her two daughters, Thursday, June 18, 2015 at a make-shift memorial near the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, was arrested Thursday in the slayings of several people, including the pastor, at a prayer meeting inside the historic black church in downtown Charleston. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, center right, joins hands with Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley, left, and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., right, at a memorial service at Morris Brown AME Church for the people killed Wednesday during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People sit on the steps of Morris Brown AME Church while services are held June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Police on Thursday arrested a 21-year-old white gunman suspected of killing nine people at a prayer meeting in one of the nation's oldest black churches in Charleston, an attack being probed as a hate crime. The shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the southeastern US city was one of the worst attacks on a place of worship in the country in recent years, and comes at a time of lingering racial tensions. (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
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A South Carolina State Trooper walks past as people gather for a vigil while services are held at Morris Brown AME Church June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. (credit:BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images)
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Charleston police Lt. S. Siprko removes flowers from the backseat of a patrol car, Thursday, June 18, 2015 to a makeshift memorial in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. T (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D-Kershaw) gets emtional as he sits next to the draped desk of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Thursday, June 18, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Pinckney was one of those killed, Wednesday night in a shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A group of women pray together at a make-shift memorial on the sidewalk in front of the Emanuel AME Church, Thursday, June 18, 2015 in Charleston, S.C. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, was arrested Thursday in the slayings of several people, including the pastor at a prayer meeting inside the historic black church. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Tyler Francis, right, hugs Shondrey Dear after praying together, Thursday, June 18, 2015 at a make-shift memorial near the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. Shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, 21, was captured without resistance in North Carolina Thursday after an all-night manhunt, Charleston's police chief Greg Mullen said. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Sheby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)