I agree dolphinfan. But what gets me is....WHY was THIS news not TELIVISED or shouted about from the roof tops by our leaders?? I didn't see it on the news?? Where was Jesse, Obamma, Sharpton, Farrakhan, Somebody making a HEADLINE speech for us to UNITE??? It just burns me up that our "Leaders" aren't doing as much as they CAN do.
As far as the churches not getting into politics....well, I think that regardless of what is going on inside of the church, they hold the majority of our peoples minds inside of them, and they need to deal with the thangs that effect ALL Black People ~ Woman, Man, and Child outside of the church. The so call pastors and leaders of the churches need to start telling the people the REAL Truth and nothing but the Truth and preparing them for a war that started centuries ago. Do you ever look at Jeopardy and a Black person is one of the contestants? And just by chance (ALLWAYS), one of the topics is dealing with Africa or Afrcans.....and the whites know more about US ...Than US!!! They have been studying and they are Strategized!!! We ARE VERY< VERY< VERY LATE in this game they play. The LAWD will not provide until we help ourselves.. Everybody ain't gonna get on your boat. You can grab some, but let's face it, every body ain't gonna make it....OR Be WILLING To GO!! MIND CONTROL.....it's like a virus. We, those that can, must DEMAND FOR ALL....not cry ~ By ANY MEANS NECESSARY. The Clock just keeps on ticking. I agree with your thoughts, except one!! I will get to that later.
As for Jesse and the BOYS, they are worrying about what the DEMACRATS think, then what we think. The real reason they don't bring it up is because they don't believe it's gonna happen in our life time!!! There LIFETIMES, so it isn't important enough to speak on it.
Now to my second favorite subject......CHURCH, the Black church.
Sometimes when I bring this subject up, people take sides, without even thinking about what was said or why it was said.
I think if your a YOUNG Black women, Or successful BLACK women, or a Blackwomen with kids. The Black church is the right place for you.
It protect the kids and of course teaches you and your children how to believe in gawd, as taught by the bible, right.
Wrong!! the bible in itself is niether right or wrong to me, because I no longer practice Christianity as my religion of choice. Nor do I have to ATTACK it, to make my points.
But I can ADDRESS how it's been used!!!!.
Thats when people go off, even when my points are VALID one's.
When you think of all the Accomplishments, Black folks made. Most will tell you, it took hard work, and determination to get whatever they did DONE. Most after the fact, THANK GAWD and the Church for the inner strengths, patience.
But rarely, do you ever hear in black history, of the Black Church doing anything, other then harboring the racist views of white people. Controling us, using religious rhetoric. To make it seem like ,if you do anything, to try to UNDO the injustices done to us. It's against gawd, if it hurt them in any way.!!! Bullshit.!!!
The black Church was a tool and still is a tool through the DEMOCRATS now. To keep us in Bondage, to white folks.
When there are real problems to be solved in our communitys, REAL BLACK FOLKS STEP UP, not the church!!, they may even try to include the church, but if it not about making money, or helping kids in AFRICA, or maybe having a speaker (white) who only comes around, when he or she needs votes, is Crazy!! Pure and simple.
When I think about Rosa Parks!!, she may have gotten her inner strength from GAWD!!tthrough the church. But we know what really happen that day. She got tired of taking the shyt she went through, and then, refused to sit in the the back of the Bus!! not the black CHURCH.
Most of the time Church going Black folks had to hide the fact of what they were doing in fear, whites would either take there lands they had church on, or take away the preachers right to teach and preach the Bible.
Hell they even TOLD them what to TEACH, to CONTROL THE FLOCK.
Again, I don't hate the black church or the BIBLE, I see it for what it is.
The bombing in Alabama Churchs, were a message that most of the churchs heeded. BUTT The attacks by us on us, was just as firece!! because we didn't want it to come down to our homes!!!!, most, we didn't own. When I look at most of the Historical facts. BLACK FACTS, they, our heros and sheros, may have gone to church, may have even gotten inspiration, from the word ,taught in the church.
But not ONE not even EBENESER (i spelled it wrong) The Church that BIRTH, DR. Martin LUTHER KING, stood in the for front until there was money to be made.!!!
IF half the Black churchs stood up as much as they claim now, two thirds of black men, wouldn't be going to jail, today and thats climbing!!!.
Black women would have a better choice in the black men out there and of course, BLACK FAMILYS would be stronger for it.
THat is the whole directive of the church outside of getting you to heaven, CONTROL.
If this was a bussines for black INTELLECTUAL GROWTH , I would have folded it alone time ago and went to another stragety and bussines, to help us.
I not mad at the Black church for being a church, I'm mad at it becuase it's still a weapon, dare I say of *Mass Destruction* By white people, for black familys run by us.
BLACK folks, just like in the past, will have to put there differences aside, and start addressing the issues that need to be address, YESTER-YEAR!! (NOT DAY).
The meer FACT, that I believe, the last number I saw was something near seventy percent of most black Churchs are filled with women.
Black men are Pushed out once they get past the CUTE stage of LIFE. Just like the MORMANDS DO, in UTAH. Think about it.
This is not about you and your personal beliefs, or what a few churchs may have done. This is about, the, so called overall stragety of the black church for us. It ain't working ESpecially for BLackmen and familys.
Sudan; this was a very brief view of what I feel about the black church.
There will be a few who will come to it's defence. Because they have great jobs, and health. But they will never fully talk about the results, of this TYPE of teaching of the BIBLE.
If the earth is destroyed and one day aliens visit, and they find a dictionary, and look under the word PROCRASTINATION, they will see a smiling black preacher and a picture of black folk, waiting for some type of JUSTICE.
NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!