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Understand that blackness is not really a skin color. From a colonial standpoint sure probably so but in the truest and most spiritual sense this is not the case at all. Just look at the wide variety of colors that black people possess throughout the diaspora. Even many albinos identify as black people.
For ages and centuries, and most importantly still to this day, to be black is to be extremely thirsty and awfully hungry for justice. I could produce an enormous list of atrocities if I were to look back at the last five hundred years. To a time before we were labeled black or African or African American or any label other than our true name which would have been given by loved ones in our native tongue, and that language would've undoubtedly been one spoken by ancestors five hundred years prior. I could produce this list but it would only make you emotional. Real justice is holy and handed down from a holy and just God (The Almighty).
So understanding that truly this deep craving for justice is the real identity of our people, we should see an end to these Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter counter protests. And more people can wake up to see how wrong it is to form any organization or alliance in contrast to the yearning of a suffering people, living in a barren land where justice has been like a mirage.
At the same time, black people (regardless of race), we must be absolutely outraged and even more passionate and so much more vigilant in protest when little black skinned boys are out here killing each other, and over worldly things especially - like sneakers, reputation, drugs, and prostitution. May those cries for justice be pure and holy. We need to be just as ready to toss some furniture for these atrocities. Don't even protest the police force no more and don't record them if you're expecting their transformation to be the fix in our communities. You remember the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". We can't be okay with these outrageous rap lyrics that black skinned young men and women are spewing over our communities, even while playing the songs around the infant children, then turn around and expect the police to come and restore the peace after the block was gunned down at the house party that was too loud and flagrant five hours ago. I don't care what they call them. We are the peace keepers and we must be willing to give all it takes to ensure that justice and peace and can truly be quenched here. We have to till the soil. We have to pray for the rain. We have to dig the wells. We have to fix the busted pipes. No other force can assume that authority and we won't have that authority in our communities unless it's handed down from the King of Kings, the only true authority and only by His spirit at work within us thru a relationship with the Most High God by faith in His sovereignty and power to do so.
In closing, there are many ways to protest that do not involve unrest, no shouting, no signs, or being in mass gatherings, getting on TV, or going to jail. In this age, it's a protest just to live right. In the face of all the wrong ways to go and all the temptations and societal ills abound - that's right. It's counter culture to live righteously. One example: Ok, so you got the girl pregnant, now it's time to man up, take responsibility and be there for her as she carries your child and be a Dad to your child. If you stay as a couple, accept the challenge of being a good mate. It's time to make that commitment and accept the changes and challenges and the blessings. This is an act of protest. Not just for yourself but for the whole village. There was a saying that goes, "the revolution will not be televised". You probably heard that before. I don't know where it originated from but I heard it from Gil Scott Heron. He is essentially saying that the true transformation is a spiritual one. When the soul of a man is freed, he is no longer bound to the chains and he does not return to those chains. He goes on walking in freedom and becomes everything he truly is as an ambassador for the God of Justice. This is the most powerful display of protest any man or woman can be regardless of what you look like or the uniform you wear.
For ages and centuries, and most importantly still to this day, to be black is to be extremely thirsty and awfully hungry for justice. I could produce an enormous list of atrocities if I were to look back at the last five hundred years. To a time before we were labeled black or African or African American or any label other than our true name which would have been given by loved ones in our native tongue, and that language would've undoubtedly been one spoken by ancestors five hundred years prior. I could produce this list but it would only make you emotional. Real justice is holy and handed down from a holy and just God (The Almighty).
So understanding that truly this deep craving for justice is the real identity of our people, we should see an end to these Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter counter protests. And more people can wake up to see how wrong it is to form any organization or alliance in contrast to the yearning of a suffering people, living in a barren land where justice has been like a mirage.
At the same time, black people (regardless of race), we must be absolutely outraged and even more passionate and so much more vigilant in protest when little black skinned boys are out here killing each other, and over worldly things especially - like sneakers, reputation, drugs, and prostitution. May those cries for justice be pure and holy. We need to be just as ready to toss some furniture for these atrocities. Don't even protest the police force no more and don't record them if you're expecting their transformation to be the fix in our communities. You remember the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". We can't be okay with these outrageous rap lyrics that black skinned young men and women are spewing over our communities, even while playing the songs around the infant children, then turn around and expect the police to come and restore the peace after the block was gunned down at the house party that was too loud and flagrant five hours ago. I don't care what they call them. We are the peace keepers and we must be willing to give all it takes to ensure that justice and peace and can truly be quenched here. We have to till the soil. We have to pray for the rain. We have to dig the wells. We have to fix the busted pipes. No other force can assume that authority and we won't have that authority in our communities unless it's handed down from the King of Kings, the only true authority and only by His spirit at work within us thru a relationship with the Most High God by faith in His sovereignty and power to do so.
In closing, there are many ways to protest that do not involve unrest, no shouting, no signs, or being in mass gatherings, getting on TV, or going to jail. In this age, it's a protest just to live right. In the face of all the wrong ways to go and all the temptations and societal ills abound - that's right. It's counter culture to live righteously. One example: Ok, so you got the girl pregnant, now it's time to man up, take responsibility and be there for her as she carries your child and be a Dad to your child. If you stay as a couple, accept the challenge of being a good mate. It's time to make that commitment and accept the changes and challenges and the blessings. This is an act of protest. Not just for yourself but for the whole village. There was a saying that goes, "the revolution will not be televised". You probably heard that before. I don't know where it originated from but I heard it from Gil Scott Heron. He is essentially saying that the true transformation is a spiritual one. When the soul of a man is freed, he is no longer bound to the chains and he does not return to those chains. He goes on walking in freedom and becomes everything he truly is as an ambassador for the God of Justice. This is the most powerful display of protest any man or woman can be regardless of what you look like or the uniform you wear.
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