... For "All" God's 'Chillun' ??
For much of last week, and, I expect for most of next week, we have, and can expect to see, "leaders" who are prominent on the public stage, "reset", "adjust their image", or, "otherwise posture" in the wake of the announcement of the death of Nelson Mandela.
The likes of Newt and Ted Cruz, both champions of the White-Supremacist Right, are struggling to "get right" with what is unfolding politically; not only here in the U.S., but around the world. White Politicians; most of whom can count on the fingers of one hand the "non-whites" they are truly close to; are scrambling for face time in the Media to keep their "charges" properly reassured regarding their racial stances.
What can we expect ahead? As a citizen of this country with the misfortune to be born "Colored" in Apartheid North Central Missouri in 1939; I, like Nelson Mandela, was born into Methodist Christianity. As the President of the Richard Allen Club at the Historically Black College where I began my advanced education in 1957, I knew full well the hypocrisies and poisonous "teachings" that persons of color received from white Christian religions. My maternal Grandmother also reinforced the requirements of firmness of mind and intellect to withstand their corrosive effects.
To this day, the message from the line in Phillis Wheatley's poem from the 1700's: "Remember Christians, Negro's black as Cain, May be refin'd and join th' angelic train." is believed and firmly held by blacks and whites alike. The Religion is the root of the Evil. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america/
Black South Africans, to include Mandela, were successful in adapting their religious teachings into what is effectively a different religion. Blacks and other non-whites in this nation have failed to do so, and suffer untold pain, sufferings, and tragedies as a result. The fundamental lesson we need to learn here and throughout the Americas, is how to "Overcome" the crippling effects of that variant of Christianity to widely practiced in this country in the Eleventh Hour on Sunday Mornings. "Forgiveness" to Mandela, did not have the meaning taught here by white Christians: a "pass"; freedom from guilt for their deeds.
Those with Catholic upbringings face even stiffer challenges. Throughout the Americas, Catholics, John Kennedy is the best known exception, have held more firmly to the racist and fascist strains that survive today within that religion. Thank God(?) the Fascist Pope resigned! Maybe Pope-Too can make significant changes.
After the myriad and ugly "truths" revealed, to all who will see, in the Trayvon Martin tragedies (events before, during, and after the murder and "trial"); it is especially incumbent on Mothers of Non-White Children to understand the implications of race across this country today and what they must do to keep the babies they bring forth healthy and alive while they grow up here. They must also instill in them the resolve of Mandela; to fiercely, intelligently, and always resist white-supremacist teachings and practices wherever they are encountered in their daily lives.
Stay Vigilant! Free Your Mind(s)! Begin by reading Willie Lynch, and stop thinking the white baby is "pretty" and your baby is "ugly". Hollywood and our Media will work against your success!
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