I have met some of the most interesting people in my life who were dedicated to all things black! From the black cars to the black groups, everything, except their workplace of course, was decorated in black! Now I love me some black too, my black "peoples," black lifestyle, black conversation...but I also have enough sense to know that our world isn't visually all black! In order to survive, I have to get along with people who don't look, talk, or act like me. Now that's common sense, right? But for some, it's all black or nothing at all. Some folks will disrupt peace, love and hair grease (so to speak) just to ensure that whatever they are grappling with on the inside is made manifest on the outside--misery indeed loves company! A bamboozled, hood-winked black on a mission to educate black folks on all things black for all the wrong reasons can be a threat to the black establishment, not a help.
Yesterday, in a previous blog entry, I posted a former Christian minister who exposes how whites had went into parts of Africa and took stories from these lands and placed them in the Holy Bible as well as other interesting information. I thought that some wouldfind his research entertaining, but also thought-provoking because many blacks believe in these types of teaching wholeheartedly.
Now, I'm a Christian bible-reader and I suspected some funny business a long time ago with the Holy Scriptures (that's why I asked the Holy Ghost to guide me through the Bible) after much prayer and fasting, but the tomfoolery in some of the text and missing parts, didn't keep me from a relationship with a personal Creator. I got that experience without need of man, woman or child--praise God! But I was surprised, that a man with 30 years in the ministry couldn't rise above the white Jesus photographs, the questionable biblical history, and anything else the white man did (like use the bible to brainwash blacks during slavery). When it came to the Holy text, this former Christian was to allow the Holy Ghost to guide him, but rather he let a group of men at a meeting show him their own way. He now denounces his faith and does it with his over-the-top preacher sounding voice!
I thought this man was a good case study of how the sick get sicker when it comes to religion in general. I don't consider myself religious, but spiritual that's why I talk this.
Think of the following for a moment. A sick man, who was in need of something, finds a faith and sells out for it. Then along comes a group of men, who look like him, and tells the poor man, "That's wrong, try this..." then he sells out for the new religion. Yet, what happens? Gradually, the man realizes that whatever illness he had before he met the men, it has only worsened since his new faith--new levels, new devils. Now he is in search of yet more teachings, people, and places to heal him. But the healing never comes. So he looks for temporary satisfaction in sharing his enlightened knowledge with those who he considers inferior to him.
Surrounding one's self with all things black brings nothing more than a temporary diversion from one's mental illness--a hatred of whatever didn't work, wasn't right, or didn't look like whoever. Instead of empowering blacks with the kind of knowledge that will better them economically, spiritually, physically--notice many speakers are overweight--the enemy distracts spirtually empowered men with the kinds of things that disempower them like what the white man is and isn't doing for starters.
The day an African American sits down from an outdated black cause, a challenging black partner, and a tired black bar or church, what does he or she have left? A black hole for a heart and it is then that this person looks to have it filled up with just about anything that looks and feels like its for him--its all black or nothing at all for some or all white or nothing at all depending on how deep the self-hatred goes.
If you are in search of something to heal you from past pains, free you of present day burdens, or show you
The Way to your future--whatever that might mean to you, I would have to challenge you to go see a doctor--not the human kind, but one who is a master at healing the sick, casting demons out, bringing peace to a chaotic situation...the one true Master, Great Teacher, Most High, The Holy One! His name isn't white Jesus either, matter of fact, the truth be told, one must go to the Creator for his or her self and ask him to reveal the name of your personal Savior, what do some call Him? Who do you say I AM? Have you been introduced to I AM and we aren't talking about Satan's counterfeit "i am" either.
Nicholl McGuire