WE ARE GODS WHO DON'T KNOW IT!
Reading the "Preface", written by abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, to NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, an AMERICAN SLAVE (1845, 1994), I have now acquired a better basis for understanding the epic fear that has afflicted by so many fully-armed, law enforcement white people who usually claim to be afraid of confronting or even speaking to unarmed black people, of any age or gender, size or economic class.This irrational "fear" had left me and had left us black people flummoxed, bewildered, confused; since, during slavery we lived in extremely close associations, from 1619-1865. But now, I do see the answer to its mystery.
First, Garrison lauded our enslaved people, when describing, when ascribing their spiritual essences to Douglass, who was then, yet and still, a runaway slave, to "godlike nature of its victims." In referring to our enslaved African forbears, as having a "godlike nature," Garrison was just echoing the sentiments of ancient sages like Homer, Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Plato, etc,, who had described ancient Africans of Kemet and Nubia similarly. Garrison also said in 1841 that the African slaves were "needing nothing but a comparatively small amount of cultivation to make him (and them and us) an ornament to society and a blessing to his race."
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But he did not stop there! William Lloyd Garrison, the foremost white abolitionist in the North, "LIBERATOR" publisher, President of the New England Abolition Society, continued, using the young fugitive, Frederick Douglass as the apostrophe, as our representative symbol of manhood:
"He has borne himself with gentleness and meekness, yet with true manliness of character . As a public speaker, he excels in pathos , wit, comparison , imitation, strength of reasoning, and fluency of language. There is in him that unity of head and heart which is indispensable to an enlightenment of the heads and winning of the hearts of others. May his strength continue to be equal to his day! May he continue to 'grow in grace and in the knowledge of God' that he might be increasingly serviceable in the cause of bleeding humanity, whether at home or abroad...Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.
"It may, perhaps , be fairly questioned whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent. Nothing has been left undone to cripple their intellects, darken their minds, debase their moral nature, obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind and yet how wonderfully they have sustained the mighty load of a most frightful bondage under which they have been laboring for centuries!"
P.5-6
Given these effusive praises of the character of our enslaved people, as embodied in Douglass and quite independent of his descent , it has now becomes crystal clear why repressive whites fear these "godlike" African American descendants: We/they are godlike! "We are gods" indeed as Psalms 82:6 has so boldly declared in even more ancient days pre-1841.
"Fear the wrath of God! Flee the wrath of God," the Bible says to such demonic persons, who have wronged, despised, tormented, unmercifully, these gods! blessedly divine people, who have, by grace and mercy, like Jonah, Daniel, Shadrach Meshak and Abednego, also have survived: the belly of the whale; thrived in the lion's den; and basked in the 400 year old fiery furnace of United States of America's cauldron, hell!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison
WE ARE GODS WHO DON'T KNOW IT!
Reading the "Preface", written by abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, to NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, an AMERICAN SLAVE (1845, 1994), I have now acquired a better basis for understanding the epic fear that has afflicted by so many fully-armed, law enforcement white people who usually claim to be afraid of confronting or even speaking to unarmed black people, of any age or gender, size or economic class.This irrational "fear" had left me and had left us black people flummoxed, bewildered, confused; since, during slavery we lived in extremely close associations, from 1619-1865. But now, I do see the answer to its mystery.
First, Garrison lauded our enslaved people, when describing, when ascribing their spiritual essences to Douglass, who was then, yet and still, a runaway slave, to "godlike nature of its victims." In referring to our enslaved African forbears, as having a "godlike nature," Garrison was just echoing the sentiments of ancient sages like Homer, Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Plato, etc,, who had described ancient Africans of Kemet and Nubia similarly. Garrison also said in 1841 that the African slaves were "needing nothing but a comparatively small amount of cultivation to make him (and them and us) an ornament to society and a blessing to his race."
P.4
But he did not stop there! William Lloyd Garrison, the foremost white abolitionist in the North, "LIBERATOR" publisher, President of the New England Abolition Society, continued, using the young fugitive, Frederick Douglass as the apostrophe, as our representative symbol of manhood:
"He has borne himself with gentleness and meekness, yet with true manliness of character . As a public speaker, he excels in pathos , wit, comparison , imitation, strength of reasoning, and fluency of language. There is in him that unity of head and heart which is indispensable to an enlightenment of the heads and winning of the hearts of others. May his strength continue to be equal to his day! May he continue to 'grow in grace and in the knowledge of God' that he might be increasingly serviceable in the cause of bleeding humanity, whether at home or abroad...Let the calumniators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and henceforth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.
"It may, perhaps , be fairly questioned whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent. Nothing has been left undone to cripple their intellects, darken their minds, debase their moral nature, obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind and yet how wonderfully they have sustained the mighty load of a most frightful bondage under which they have been laboring for centuries!"
P.5-6
Given these effusive praises of the character of our enslaved people, as embodied in Douglass and quite independent of his descent , it has now becomes crystal clear why repressive whites fear these "godlike" African American descendants: We/they are godlike! "We are gods" indeed as Psalms 82:6 has so boldly declared in even more ancient days pre-1841.
"Fear the wrath of God! Flee the wrath of God," the Bible says to such demonic persons, who have wronged, despised, tormented, unmercifully, these gods! blessedly divine people, who have, by grace and mercy, like Jonah, Daniel, Shadrach Meshak and Abednego, also have survived: the belly of the whale; thrived in the lion's den; and basked in the 400 year old fiery furnace of United States of America's cauldron, hell!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison