Monday, December 31, 2012
LITTLE CHILDREN
PRAYER
Sunday, December 30, 2012
TALLY-HO! 'FISCAL CLIFF'
The so-called "fiscal cliff" automatic budget cuts represent the only realistic opportunity to make military/defense budget cuts since the Eisenhower administration, who warned about the coming military-industrial complex in the 1950's. Since then, Congress has declared zero wars, but we have been continuously fighting "undeclared" wars world-wide of the hot and cold variety, without constitutional sanction!
Dr. King equated wars overseas with domestic neglect at home, fiscally and humanistically. He saw an inverse relationship between the two, with unauthorized wars winning hands-down, over domestic relief for the downtrodden and oppressed in America.
Both men, King and Eisenhower are/were right! Almost 600 billion dollars is allocated for national "defense" annually. This sum is wasteful and unnecessary in the absence of a Congressionally authorized war anywhere ! Our government has been hijacked by these military-industrial interests, who fund their political minions and who seed popular culture to assure continued "hegemony," or dominance at home and abroad.
Therefore, let us leap into the abyss! Over the cliff, a New Congress can fashion a new set of constitutional priorities free of the old constraints, under the guidance of a benevolent President. Tally-ho, mates!
Dr. King equated wars overseas with domestic neglect at home, fiscally and humanistically. He saw an inverse relationship between the two, with unauthorized wars winning hands-down, over domestic relief for the downtrodden and oppressed in America.
Both men, King and Eisenhower are/were right! Almost 600 billion dollars is allocated for national "defense" annually. This sum is wasteful and unnecessary in the absence of a Congressionally authorized war anywhere ! Our government has been hijacked by these military-industrial interests, who fund their political minions and who seed popular culture to assure continued "hegemony," or dominance at home and abroad.
Therefore, let us leap into the abyss! Over the cliff, a New Congress can fashion a new set of constitutional priorities free of the old constraints, under the guidance of a benevolent President. Tally-ho, mates!
Thursday, December 27, 2012
IS THAT 'BLACK ENOUGH' FOR YOU?
THIS MUCH-CRITICIZED PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE, ITALICIZED BELOW, WAS FOLLOWED AND EMBODIED BY BISHOP RICHARD ALLEN, FOUNDER OF THE AFICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH; BY TOUSSAINT BREDA, KNOWN TO HISTORY AS "L'OUVERTURE" AND BY HIS MILITARY SUCCESSOR, JEAN-JACQUE DESSALINES, THE FIRST RULER OF LIBERATED 'HAITI' AS HE RE-NAMED IT!
THIS EXECRABLE SCRIPTURE--AS SOME HAVE DEEMED IT TO BE--WAS ALSO FOLLOWED, AND EMDODIED, BY MILLIONS OF SLAVES DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, THEIR "FREEDOM WAR," REMAINING 'OBEDIENT' TO, AND CARING FOR, OLE MISSUS AND MASSAH, EVEN AS MANY LEFT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
SUCH OBEDIENT LOYALTY IS SUPERNATURAL AND DIVINE IN ITS OWN RIGHT!
NOW, IF THAT AIN'T 'BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU,' LOOK UP ITS MEANING ELSEWHERE!
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.
9 And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
EPHESIANS 6
THIS EXECRABLE SCRIPTURE--AS SOME HAVE DEEMED IT TO BE--WAS ALSO FOLLOWED, AND EMDODIED, BY MILLIONS OF SLAVES DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, THEIR "FREEDOM WAR," REMAINING 'OBEDIENT' TO, AND CARING FOR, OLE MISSUS AND MASSAH, EVEN AS MANY LEFT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
SUCH OBEDIENT LOYALTY IS SUPERNATURAL AND DIVINE IN ITS OWN RIGHT!
NOW, IF THAT AIN'T 'BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU,' LOOK UP ITS MEANING ELSEWHERE!
5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people, 8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do, whether they are slave or free.
9 And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
EPHESIANS 6
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
YOU ARE THE LIGHT
8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 14 This is why it is said:
“Wake up, sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. 18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
The Pathology of Race Prejudice
This is the classic 1927 article by the nation's preeminent sociologist.
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