Sunday, March 3, 2013

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'S BLACK MINORITY: A 'PECULIAR PEOPLE'

Reading Benny Mays' amazing biography by Randal Jelks: 

The African American freedom struggle has been the most remarkable in history! 

The black slaves in Haiti were the majority, when they ousted the French, and defeated the Spanish and the British by force of arms. 

Majorities also obtained in India, when Mahatma Gandhi and followers ousted the British colonialists, nonviolently, as did the African National Congress, in South Africa, when Apartheid fell, nonviolently to black majorities.

Likewise, Zimbabwe nee "Rhodesia" fell to Robert Mugabe and other guerrillas' violent peoples'-majority.

Across the continent of Africa
, black majorities threw off their shackles, most nonviolently, but some violently.

The same is true throughout the world. Oppressed majorities rose up violently as in Vietnam or nonviolently to throw off European oppression.

Only in USA was freedom finally obtained, by an enslaved minority. This first came after a violent civil war, whose favorable outcome the black minority's 200,000 soldiers and sailors, incontrovertibly determined; which was followed by a nonviolent minority-led, freedom movement, a century later, that finally "secured these rights," so long denied, led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a black Baptist preacher who was taught by, then-President, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

We are 'a peculiar people,' 1 Peter 2:9, special people; the peculiar people of God, who yet abides, rules and super-rules! Don't hate. Celebrate GOD'S great glory!