"Tunnel of Oppression" elicits more response

The column "Tunnel of Oppression reinforces victimhood," which first ran on this blog on February 14, and was printed by the Georgia Red and Black on February 23, elicited an immediate reader response. Included in the blog posts immediately previous to this one were an email from a reader, and the author's response. The following is a comment posted in the online feedback forum of the Red and Black online. Below is the author's response to this comment.

"The “homophobia” room, for example, has signs which scream “Thank God for AIDS” and “Burn in hell, fag” — something I have personally never heard spoken in my life by anybody other than gay rights activists who say these things when they accuse me and others like me of secretly thinking it."All you have to do is google Fred Phelps. This type of language exists and is quite prevalent from the group you claim - mainstream Christian America.

And the response from the author:

While you're at it, you may want to google David Duke, David Koresh, and Jim Jones...then sit back and realize that NONE of those represent mainstream Christian America. Mainstream Christian America is what you see all around you every day--not the extremists you want it to be so that you can continue to justify your hatred of it.
--J.P. Emanuel