Edward Hum – 7/9/15

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Why are Christian churches segregated?; Edward J. Hum; Beaver County Times; July 9, 2015.

An editor’s note for a previous letter asserted, “The writer is a 1948 graduate of Geneva College.”

Mr. Hum has written more than 69 letters since mid-2004, including a 10-month hiatus from September 2007 to July 2008 and another from November 2012 to July 2014. Long after George W. Bush left office, most of Mr. Hum’s letters still are no more than exercises in bashing President Bush and/or other Republicans. Mr. Hum’s letters are also flame-throwing exercises. I don’t know if Mr. Hum actually believes what he writes, or if he simply likes to stir things up to call attention to himself.

Mr. Hum frequently includes “fellow Republicans” or something similar in his letters and is one of a group of local Republican impersonators (The group also includes Messrs. William A. Alexander, Arthur Brown, George Reese, and Oren M. Spiegler) who write claiming to be disgruntled Republicans. You have to give Mr. Hum “credit,” however, for going the extra mile to further his impersonation. As of September 2006, Mr. Hum was actually registered as a Republican despite the fact he’s no more a Republican than is Dennis Kucinich.

Given his body of work, for a while I wondered what Mr. Hum would use for subject matter now that Barack Obama is President. Mr. Hum wrote three letters in support of a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly (here, here, and here), then he reverted to his Bush-bashing habit, as in “Bush earns status as ‘most liberal.’” I guess some addictions are too tough to overcome. The last Hum letter I critiqued was entitled “What have we done to solve racial issues?”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“There have been a number of black church fires recently. It raises the question of why Christian churches are segregated. Is there an obscure verse in the New Testament requiring black and white Christians to worship in separate churches?”

[RWC] As I’ve written before, you have to appreciate the chutzpah when lefties like Mr. Hum ask questions like these. Mr. Hum’s ideological/political ancestors and contemporaries (Democrats) supported slavery and continued to abuse blacks overtly through the 1960s and by stealth since. Please read “Lefty Race Baiters” and “Ferguson, MO” to see what I mean.

“Is there a high-placed bishop out there who could become the Branch Rickey of church integration? Of course, since Jackie Robinson got into the Major Leagues, you don’t hear much about the Homestead Grays, Kansas City Monarchs or the best of the Negro League teams.”

[RWC] Is Mr. Hum living under a rock? Anyway, a man of Mr. Hum’s age should remember there were two Pittsburgh teams in the second Negro National League (NNL, 1933 – 1948), the aforementioned Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords. Between them, the Pittsburgh teams won 11 of the league’s 16 championships. The Grays predated the NNL by about 21 years and continued operating for about 12 years after the NNL disbanded. The Crawfords moved to Toledo in 1939 and Indianapolis in 1940, then disbanded.

“However, maybe, in these great United States, we would all be better off if we knew each other better.”

[RWC] As I noted in my critique of his last letter, Mr. Hum didn’t tell us what he’s doing to address the situation.