NOW SINCE THIS IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH...I BELIEVE IF WE TAKE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT "THE BLACK CHURCH" YOU WOULD
TOTALLY SHOCKED THAT YOU ATTEND A "BLACK CHURCH"IS A MYTH. NOW LETS TRY A LITTLE EVERY DAY COMMON SENSE...WHY WOULD BLACK SLAVES PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE TO GET AWAY FROM STANDING ALL DAY TO HEAR A PREACHER PUT THEM DOWN SO THEY COULD GET A BLACK CHURCH TO BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME THING?!?P-L-E-A-S-E MY PEOPLE HAVE YOU NO IDEA YET WHY FARRAKHAN AND REV. J. WRITHE IS SUCH A TREAT...IT IS ALL ABOUT THEY DON'T PUT US DOWN, THEY BUILD US UP...IN OTHER WORDS THEY REPRESENT WHAT AND WHY WE AS CHATEL SLAVES PUT OUR LIVES ON HE LINE TO BE ABLE TO DO...SPEND ALL DAY SINDAY BUILDING US UP AND GIVING US THAT WE ARE SOME BODY...WE CAN CREAT OUR OWN JUST AS WE HAD BUILD AMERICA INTO A WORLD POWER WE AND DO THIS FOR OUR OWN SELVES...NOW PLEASE THEY HAD GO GET RID OF DR.KING WHEN HE BEGAN PREACING THIS SAME MESSAGE...AND HOW REV.AL AND JACKSON WERE NO LONGER THEMASSMEDIA DARLINGS WHEN THEY BEGNACTUALLY DOING FOR OUR CXOMMUNITY...ANYONE NOTICE HOW ABRUPTLY THEY WERE NOT LONGER ALL OVER OUR MEDIA?!???...YES OUR BIA HISTORY IS SHOCKING IF YOU EVER TAKE THE TIME TOLEARN HOW MANY YEARS IT TOOK THE BACK COMMUNITY TO GET THIS DONE BECAUSE IT TRUTH THEIRLIES ONLY HURT TH ECOMMUNITY AHY LIED ABOUT HELPING...
AND, IF YOU DON'T TAKE AWAY ANY THING ELSE FROM THIS A BLACK CHURCH IS ABOUT UNITY OR OUR PEOPLES AGAINST ALL ODDS BECAUSE WE HAVE HE POWERS TO DO FOR OUR SELVES AND AS LONG AS WE ARE ONT ASKING FOR HAND OUTS WE ARE A THREAT...TH EBLACK CHURCH PROVIDED FOR ALL OF HD NEEDS OF EH BLACK COMMUNITY...AND A TEST FOR IF YOUR CHURCH IS A "BLACK CHURCH OR NOT ANY HOMELESS PEOPLE IN YOUR OCMMUNITY OVER RUN WITH GANGS...OUT OF WORK, ON DRUGS...YOU WILLNOT FIND THIS IN A NOI COMMUNITY NOR IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRINITY CHURCH...OR ANY PLACE ELSE WITH A BLACK CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY...(SMILE)
AND, IF YOU DON'T TAKE AWAY ANY THING ELSE FROM THIS A BLACK CHURCH IS ABOUT UNITY OR OUR PEOPLES AGAINST ALL ODDS BECAUSE WE HAVE HE POWERS TO DO FOR OUR SELVES AND AS LONG AS WE ARE ONT ASKING FOR HAND OUTS WE ARE A THREAT...TH EBLACK CHURCH PROVIDED FOR ALL OF HD NEEDS OF EH BLACK COMMUNITY...AND A TEST FOR IF YOUR CHURCH IS A "BLACK CHURCH OR NOT ANY HOMELESS PEOPLE IN YOUR OCMMUNITY OVER RUN WITH GANGS...OUT OF WORK, ON DRUGS...YOU WILLNOT FIND THIS IN A NOI COMMUNITY NOR IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRINITY CHURCH...OR ANY PLACE ELSE WITH A BLACK CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY...(SMILE)
it was forbidden for the enslaved Africans to
read, if “massa” sent a preacher to tell them that God
was white and they were a cursed people who had no
soul, or if he told them that they were blessed to
have been enslaved because if it wasn’t for slavery,
they would still be “heathens” who never would have
gotten to know “tha lawd”—they believed it. Most
damaging was the teaching that to rebel against
slavery was to rebel against God.
What is most tragic is that this mentality is still in
the hearts and minds of Black people today. Instead of
seeing the Bible as a book to be read and understood,
many see it as a magical good luck charm and if we
place it under our pillows at night, we would learn
“the word” by osmosis.
Because many of us use the King James version of the
Bible, written in Old English, many feel that if
“Jesus” talked like that surely he must have looked
like one of those Shakespearean actors from TV.
Hollywood has also pushed this lie that the people of
the Bible were European, by allowing white actors to
play Moses and Jesus but making Black actors play
muggers and junkies.
As we look at the condition of Afrikan people today,
we can attribute the drugs, the Black on Black
violence and poverty to our being brainwashed by
European “nationalism” under the guise of religion.
How else can you account for our perpetual misery? How
else can you account for the state of mind of our
young Black boys who think that they are thugs and
gangbangers. Or our Black girls who think that they
are “Ho’s”, unworthy of respect. No one has told them
that they are the people of God. No one has told them
that the “Jesus” that they hear about in church was
the same color as the one that they see staring back
at them in the mirror.
Can we really expect to reach out for the Hip Hop
generation with one hand while clutching a figurine of
a lily white “Jesus” with the other?
How else can you explain our inability to respond
effectively to the problems that have faced our people
for the last 400 years. Why do we accept racism,
economic exploitation and racial profiling? With all
our fancy jobs and college degrees, we still cannot
find a way to stop crack from coming into our
communities or AIDS from spreading at an alarming
rate.
The reason that we tolerate such injustice is that we
are looking for a white man to come down from heaven
and save us and if we can’t have “Jesus” right now,
any white man will do.
What we need is Afrikan Liberation Theology; a
theology that reveals the TRUTH that will make us
free. Afrikan Liberation Theology gives us a
theological foundation to fight the battle for the
upliftment of Afrikan people. This theology teaches
that the fight for Justice is not against God, as the
white man has taught us, but is your religious duty if
you are truly a follower of Yeshua, the Black
Revolutionary Messiah.
Afrikan Liberation Theology recaptures the scriptures
from the white supremacist system and brings it back
home to the African people upon which they were based.
Most importantly Afrikan Liberation Theology
challenges us to finally confront the question, “Can a
white Jesus save Black people?” Our current condition
answers that question loudly and clearly.