A Roy Moore win will signals that Conservative Christianity now equates to female sexual abuse

Watching the Republican Candidate for the United States Senate Judge Roy Moore continue to proclaim his innocence in mistreating young girls and women in the midst of a rising tide of accusers forces me to try to understand this skullduggery. It doesn’t make sense for him to try to make us believe all of these ladies are lairs and only he is telling the truth. 

After several attempts to understand Moore’s motivation, it appeared his antebellum heritage might underpin his mindset. Mary C. Curtis in an article “Opinion: Remembering Recy Taylor and the Too Familiar State of Alabama” started me to thinking along the path that Moore may be assuming he is antellemeum privileged.

“In “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” a recently released documentary, you see the face of bravery. It is Recy Taylor, the 24-year-old African-American — a wife and mother of an infant daughter — kidnapped in 1944 by a carful of young white men, some the sons of the “respectable” leaders of Abbeville, Alabama, where they all lived. A gun held to her head, she was blindfolded, driven to a remote spot and violated in unimaginable ways. She escaped being killed by promising to keep quiet. . .”

Curtis continues, “Taylor suffered mightily for speaking her truth, though the 1944 crime was investigated by NAACP activist Rosa Parks, not the meek seamstress of Montgomery bus boycott fame, but a longtime warrior for justice. Taylor’s story was shared across the world by the black press, who celebrated Taylor’s strength and resolve, though that — plus witness testimony and Taylor’s identification of the perpetrators — was not enough to convince two grand juries in her home state.”

Curtis’ article suggested that I might look into how black females were treated during the antebellum epoch roughly 1830 to 1860. A Wikipedia article, “Treatment of slaves in the United States” gives a bone chilling account by today’s standards. “The sexual abuse of slaves was partially rooted in a patriarchal southern culture which treated all women, black and white, as property. Although southern mores regarded white women as dependent and submissive, black women were often consigned to a life of sexual exploitation.”

Wikipedia went on “Children (especially young girls) were often subjected to sexual abuse by their masters, their masters' children and relatives. Similarly, indentured servants and slave women were often abused.”

A holistic look at the accusations against Moore suggest that he is operating off an antebellum epoch mindset where his nefarious actions against a white child (pedophilia) or woman he viewed in a lower caste were acceptable in the economic mainstream. These complainers against Moore in his eye must be low caste white women hoping to gain fame through their encounters with him.

Moore knew he did not have to worry about any reprehensible actions because President Donald Trump has revealed how he abused women. He also knew of the nefarious actions of the late South Carolina US Senator Strom Thurmond – noted racial segregationist – who impregnated 16 Year old African American Carrie Butler getting a daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams. The Thurmond family finally has accepted Mrs. Washington-Williams as a family member to give her offspring their heritage.

Race started to divide the plight of African American and Caucasian women on August 18, 1920 with the passage of the Amendment to the US Constitution granting the vote to women. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. . .”

Black America’s ability to vote was very seriously encumbered. When Blacks moved to get respectability in the economic mainstream there was backlash in Southern states as Alabama. Rosa Parks helped to get the black ball rolling with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The Urban Dictionary offers a flavor of the disdain showed for Parks’ memory. “Rosa Parks was an uppity nigger bitch who thought that she didn't have to move for the white people on the bus. 

“I'm going to beat your ass you uppity nigger, now get back in the field and pick my fuckin' cotton.”

The real divergence of Black and white women’s power was on display for the world when African American Law Professor Anita Hill found herself revealing what now African American US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had done to her sexually. Although Hill should have been considered in the higher caste she was treated like the typical lower caste bed wench. It was if the US senate held onto antebellum customs.

“African American women had to endure the threat and the practice of sexual exploitation. There were no safeguards to protect them from being sexually stalked, harassed, or raped, or to be used as long-term concubines by masters and overseers. The abuse was widespread, as the men with authority took advantage of their situation. Even if a woman seemed agreeable to the situation, in reality she had no choice. Slave men, for their part, were often powerless to protect the women they loved.” 

 The alleged actions of Judge Thomas on Professor Anita Hill suggest that he saw himself as her slave overseer. Surely Judge Thomas knew the plight of the African American slave woman. “Early adolescence for female slaves was often difficult because of the threat of exploitation. For some young women, puberty marked the beginning of a lifetime of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse from masters and mistresses, overseers, male slaves, and members of the planter family. For others, work in the planter's home included close interaction with their owners, which often led to intimate relationships with white men or friendships with white women.”

The Voting Rights Act and the Women’s Movement united females based on sex. The Caucasians realized that they could now bring down powerful men who treated them disparagingly in the pass. The Internet took away the cloak of hiding with time limit on dasterly deeds.

The efforts of the Catholic Church to expose pedophilia under the guidance of Pope Francis is morphing this pedophilia crime into worldwide condemnation.

Hence a Roy Moore win will signal the world that Conservative Christianity now equates female sexual abuse as normal. Can we be upset with Muslims if our president’s past activity is comparable to their when it comes to treatment of women?