Sunday, August 10, 2014

GLASS HOUSES

I'm sick and tired of people criticizing Christians and referring to our faith and beliefs as brainwashing. Just because a person does not believe what you may believe does not make them “brainwashed" or “unenlightened".

So many people criticize the Christian faith, and yet do not make any attempt to read the Bible, Quran, or Torah and discern for themselves. But you'll faithfully tune in to VH1on Monday nights watching garbage on a plasma/LED tv that you used your income tax refund to get, or worse yet, it's a set that you're “renting to own".

You point your finger at a person's way of life, but you yourself do not invest in your family, home, or community. You emasculate your men, and refuse to educate your children. You dress your young daughters up like whores, and you cling to your fatherless sons, using them as a scapegoat for your lack of romantic love, and male companionship. You tell your children that it is okay to lay down with someone, plant a seed, and then just walk away. “I don't need a man! " you say. You nor your children know anything about saving, and investing to leave a legacy. You don't teach your children the importance of being healthy and honoring their mind and body. You don't teach your children how to use the natural resources that God has provided, so that you may be self sufficient, because you yourself do not know. These are all things that I have learned and understand from my Bible, and my religion. So instead of picking up a book, you surf social media, and invest your time in pop culture, allowing them to tell you how you should live your life.

You say that the Christian is judgemental and yet you're the one who refers to them as lost or stupid,

I view all this talk of religious brainwashing as prejudice. A person chooses to believe what they want, the manipulation comes from the messenger, not the message.  If you do not believe in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so be it. But I'm not going to label you a Neanderthal, just as you shouldn't label the believer a zealot.

I know that many Christians come across as self righteous, but honestly a lot of the non believers do too. We need to learn to first respect and honor one another as human beings, and then share what we believe in love. Allow ourselves to have discussions instead of one-sided hate debates.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. -Warren Wiersbe

Sunday, May 25, 2014

PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS

By now we are all quite familiar with the remarks made by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and recently Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks) has made a few "racist" remarks of his own.  I've tried my best to hold my tongue about both situations and keep my opinions to myself, but it seems every where I turn I am bombarded with memes, radio broadcasts, and news shows pertaining to these two powerful men.  I personally have grown quite irritated with the whole thing.  I'm not irritated at the fact the these men made the comments; what irritates me is the number of African Americans who are outraged by the opinions and ideals possessed by these men.  It's as if Black people have forgotten that racism still exists.  Does racism have to be as blatant as a white hood and a burning cross for young African Americans to realize that there is still a vast number of white Americans (and other ethnic groups) who are bigots?  The fact that we have a Black President does not magically erase the 250 years of slavery nor 90 plus years of Jim Crow.  It's called "conditioning" and many White Americans have been conditioned to feel a sense of entitlement and superiority towards other races, especially those of African descent.  I'm sure these are not the only people of power who feel the way they do about their employees and consumers.  I personally wish that more of the elite 1% would come clean about their racism.  I'm curious to see what we (as African Americans) would do as the nation's number one consumer.  From what I've seen we will do nothing.  Sure we will rant and rave, and post to social networks, but what difference does that really make?  If you really want to make these men (and others like them) know that the African American public will not stand to be viewed as a commodity, stop supporting their brands and buying their products.

Here is a cold hard fact. Racism will never disappear as long as we keep feeding into the idiosyncrasies of what it is to be Black.  So many of our people are feeding into racial stereotypes in a effort to "keep it real".  Enough is enough already!  We are more than a nation of saggy pant wearing, rapping, booty clapping, jiggaboos.  So I say particularly to my young African Americans, stop buying into these ideals of what it means to be Black, and furthermore African Americans have got to let go of the "house nigger" mentality.  Massah takes us in his house, feeds us his scraps, let us sleep at the foot of his bed, and he will even plant his seed in the wombs of African American women.  And from these actions the house nigger thinks, "Why Massah must love me, cause he treats me just as good as his dog."  And it is because of this exact mentality that all our people will do is get mad and take to our social networks, instead of hitting these racist tycoons in their pockets, where it really hurts.

Gil-Scott Heron wrote that "The revolution will not be televised." maybe that is because the revolution will never exist.