- Feb 28, 2009
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Thank You ALL for your BlacKTasTic RE~sponse's!
I'm thinking
IF these things are true...
THEN....what is the "problem" many of us have with christ-insanity:?:
I know, I know....I did not HAVE to put that out there like that...yet...that IS how I think about it anymore. At least, the surface ish which I suspect is what most respond to in that religion....surface stuff and not what's buried deep down inside.
IF things are truly about the Power of Our Minds....what we THINK...the Energies we send out.....THEN....would it not be strategic to support, encourage, educate the masses on USING THOSE ENERGIES towards something that is palpable....like....
"healing for the Afreekan people":?:
or..."Oh Lawd...help us BLACK get our sh*t together":?:
or something else to that effect...
INSTEAD of trying to convince them that they are WRONG in their thinking or beliefs?
IF We KNOW the bible and other christ-insanity tools are REALLY from US, about US etc...THEN....how can we BUILD on that as a bridge to support OUR Collective RE~connections.
given the staunch divisions inherent in many conversations between Afreekans who subscribe to christian beliefs?
I KNOW something "good" has come for many who practice in various RELIGIONS....and IF that "good" has MORE TO DO WITH THE ENERGIES BEING SENT OUT....THEN......
I imagine tho...with the teachings of "love EVERYONE"....including the enemy who whited-out the truth in the "word of god" it may be a hard sell....yet...I'm certain MANY christians have family members who they want to GET THEIR SH*T TOGETHER.....even as a BLACK MAN/WOMAN....almost ESPECIALLY as a Black man/woman cause they know....."You Mama raised you better than that"!
Ask them to JUST focus on God helping BLACK PEOPLE get it together.
M.E.
You've brought up some very interesting points here. However, sadly, it is one thing in theory yet another in practice. Too many Black people just don't seem to be happy unless they can tear another down; and concentrating on our differences in religion and ideologies, we just widen the divide instead of bringing the chasm closer together.
Too many have to have an "us-against-them" mindset by pointing fingers of blame and disapproval because they don't agree with the other group's philosophies or religions even though they all may be striving for the greater good of Black people.
This has shown itself from Booker T and W.E.B. to Malcolm and Martin and to every religion and organization and ideology which Black people adhere to.
One group feels it has the right to denounce another group because they are deemed to be working against Black improvement with their beliefs, poisoning the minds of Blacks with their teachings or conspiring with the White power structure, etc.. And while we do this, in the meantime, our communities are still filled with drugs and crime and murders; and our children are still being neglected and abused and have no stable nurturing family unit and are propagating the cycle of dysfunction, and we still have no community economic base.
But, as long as we can assume an air of superiority against another Black dictating what is "Black" and what is not and tear the next Black person down about what they believe in, then we're happy.