Rick Perry Devotional: Niggling over the N-Word

Editor’s Note: Gov. Perry is our guest devotional writer.
“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions”(Isaiah 43:25).
As the ancient Latinos used to say, “Mea culpa.”

Prayer Time With Perry

I admit it, our West Texas family hunting camp had “Niggerhead” painted on a rock. Everybody knows it now, and I’m not a bit proud of it. We painted over it at the first opportunity. Initially we changed it to “NigraHead” and later to “ColoredHead” and finally to “NegroHead.” None of these satisfied the haters. So we just whitewashed the whole rock. Now my support of Confederate flag symbols is being criticized, too. Honestly, don’t we all have some shameful things– skeletons in the closet, if you will? I’ll bet Herman Cain has probably spit in somebody’s pizza he was makin’. Mitt has surely forgotten to wear his sacred underalls once or twice. Newt … well that goes without saying. Let’s just bury the past, forgive and refocus this campaign back on important issues, like whether Obama is a Shia or a Sunni Muslim.