SUPPRESSION REPRESSION
Suppression is slavery. Repression follows slavery. Thus, the will, mind, means of men, are pirated by other men , in either case, for filthy lucre.
BUT:
The tables do turn with the planet; day after day, year after year; person to person; group to group; as in nature: today's savanna is tomorrow's desert.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
SUPPRESSION REPRESSION
SUPPRESSION REPRESSION
Suppression is slavery. Repression follows slavery. Thus, the will, mind, means of men, are pirated by other men , in either case, for filthy lucre.
BUT:
The tables do turn with the planet; day after day, year after year; person to person; group to group; as in nature: today's savanna is tomorrow's desert.
PERFECT YOURSELF
BE PERFECT YOURSELF
Should perfection again become a standard for all to pursue in their personal life, in social life, then all who are imperfect must fly or die.
With God all things are possible, including mankind's re-attaining perfection. So taught Jesus Christ in Matthew 5: 48, "Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect ." Sadly, those who most loudly claim to profess Jesus as their "Lord and
MAGIC
MAGIC
A sown seed yields its kind in season.
No one knows its rhyme or reason. It is magic.
Seed sower field season are four.
Yet inside of each fact lies so much more.
No one knows its rhyme or reason.
It is magic.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
NAACP MISSOURI TRAVEL ADVISORY
NAACP MISSOURI TRAVEL ADVISORY
I am pleased to read that the state and national NAACP travel advisory that was issued for Missouri is working! Rumblings of protests are coming in from the tourist and hospitality sectors or their agents of the Missouri economy. this testifies o its efficacy!
Something good needed to happen here for us! Our Missouri legislature and governor are both Donald Trump-Republicans, They have been downright disdainful; in fact, scornful of black folks' interests!. Our state officials had ordered the arrests of a bunch of preachers, from all over Missouri last year,(2016), who traveled by buses to Jefferson City to pray and to protest about and against unfair health care policies. These preachers went to trial in "Jeff" earlier this year and made plea deals to avoid jail.
Attorney Rod Nimrod Chapel, President of the state NAACP,was evidently the one who CONCEIVED the absolutely brilliant idea for the "travel advisory," after his microphone was cut off while he was testifying against less favorable amendments to a civil rights statute. .I know that pre-amended statute well. I had filed a number of successful lawsuits under it, while actively practicing law, to avoid using the harsher federal law--Title VII--, and appearing before the far more "conservative" (wink) federal judges who used to almost automatically grant summary judgment--judgment without a trial-- to corporate or institutional defendants, who had discriminated against my poor, impoverished, usually-black or Hispanic, clients. Thanks, NAACP!
The travel advisory could as well have been issued for any of the lower 48 lower states of the United States, in addition to Missouri. So what! it is here. and justly reciprocates blow-for-blow for pain.
"THE ROAD NOT TAKEN" by Robert Frost
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BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
EARLIEST RELIGIOUS RIGORS IN MISSOURI
Earliest Religious Rigors in Missouri
The church tread has been less trod, less traveled, than the trade tread of American history has been traveled, by historians, clergy, laity.
These thoughts occur to me as I read: "Slavery and Schism: The Rupture of the American Home Missionary Society in Pre-Civil War Missouri," by Scott N. Morse, Esq., in MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 111, No.4, July 2017.
This deft scholarly essay is an easy, logical, informative examination of broadening differences in polity, and doctrine of Presbyterian and Congressional Churches in wake of their institutional expansions into Missouri, a new slave state, that was also western, via the American Home Missionary Society's efforts.
Slavery strained, tested, snapped the former bonds of fidelity existing between and among their mutual Christian fellowships, the foremost educated of those of American Protestant denominations--Baptists and Methodists having been less rigorously educated. But, educated or not,there were splits, not only within their denominations, but also within the American Home Missionary Society, itself, nee the American Missionary Society, before the Civil War, definitively divided the states, churches, even families.
Scott Morse writes early-on about the implied dangers of the slaves' education in Missouri that even Sabbath School represented to state slaveholders:
"[A]s he wrote in 1847, 'ninety-nine hundredths of them receive no instruction, not even in a Sabbath school.' Public sentiment in Missouri against teaching slaves amounted to a 'prohibition equally effective.' In fact, in 1847 the Missouri legislature enacted a statute making it illegal to 'keep any school' to educate blacks. Violation of the statute was punishable by fine or imprisonment for a term of six months. Some blacks received oral instruction but usually from 'preachers of their own color.' Reverend Hill found them to be 'lamentably ignorant--scarcely able to read a sentence much less able to comprehend and explain its truth.' The slaves' preference for black preachers perhaps arose because white preachers spent so little time with them. However, if white preachers did otherwise, they might raise the suspicion of being abolitionist .
"To Hill's dismay, slaves were almost never included in family worship. Often when he prayed with a family , Hill's heart would sink as his mind wandered into 'that dark kitchen where the slave must remain.' To that slave, 'no Bible is opened; for him, no prayer is heard.' Only a very few slaves ever attended preaching . They were kept at home on the Sabbath 'to cook, feed stock, catch and take care of horses and carriages for the family.' If their master allowed them to attend church, it was often the white church and was motivated by a desire to keep them from associating together outside of his watchful eye."
African American theologian, Dr. Howard Thurman in his profound book JESUS AND THE DISINHERITED (1949) has poignantly expressed similar facts with respect to slave masters' insecurities and to the slaves' own particular preferences for their own black preaching and preachers in his native South Carolina, similar to those of Scott Morse.
"Protestant Christianity dominated American public life during the antebellum period. The Calvinist denominations, the Congregationalist and Presbyterians in turn dominated establishment Protestantism."
Christianity is well over a thousand years older than the United States of America, or of homegrown-American racism. Christianity in fact came to America before racism was conceived and constructed here as the expedient, cultural, economic, legal, political, religious paradigm, that it became, after the American Revolution, and Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia .".
The uprooting of American racism, whose extremes were exemplified in 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina and most recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, therefore, requires re-traveling "the road less traveled," to quote poet Robert Frost. American racism's complete extirpation requires being true to the Christian religion, not false to it. True to its teachings were: General Toussaint L'Overture of Haiti, Prince Hall of the African Lodge Masons, Class Leader, Denmark Vesey, Bishop Richard Allen in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Absalom Jones in the Episcopal Church and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Baptist Church, and many unnamed others. Christian truth "will make all the difference," as Robert Frost intimates in conclusion.
The church tread has been less trod, less traveled, than the trade tread of American history has been traveled, by historians, clergy, laity.
These thoughts occur to me as I read: "Slavery and Schism: The Rupture of the American Home Missionary Society in Pre-Civil War Missouri," by Scott N. Morse, Esq., in MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 111, No.4, July 2017.
This deft scholarly essay is an easy, logical, informative examination of broadening differences in polity, and doctrine of Presbyterian and Congressional Churches in wake of their institutional expansions into Missouri, a new slave state, that was also western, via the American Home Missionary Society's efforts.
Slavery strained, tested, snapped the former bonds of fidelity existing between and among their mutual Christian fellowships, the foremost educated of those of American Protestant denominations--Baptists and Methodists having been less rigorously educated. But, educated or not,there were splits, not only within their denominations, but also within the American Home Missionary Society, itself, nee the American Missionary Society, before the Civil War, definitively divided the states, churches, even families.
Scott Morse writes early-on about the implied dangers of the slaves' education in Missouri that even Sabbath School represented to state slaveholders:
"[A]s he wrote in 1847, 'ninety-nine hundredths of them receive no instruction, not even in a Sabbath school.' Public sentiment in Missouri against teaching slaves amounted to a 'prohibition equally effective.' In fact, in 1847 the Missouri legislature enacted a statute making it illegal to 'keep any school' to educate blacks. Violation of the statute was punishable by fine or imprisonment for a term of six months. Some blacks received oral instruction but usually from 'preachers of their own color.' Reverend Hill found them to be 'lamentably ignorant--scarcely able to read a sentence much less able to comprehend and explain its truth.' The slaves' preference for black preachers perhaps arose because white preachers spent so little time with them. However, if white preachers did otherwise, they might raise the suspicion of being abolitionist .
"To Hill's dismay, slaves were almost never included in family worship. Often when he prayed with a family , Hill's heart would sink as his mind wandered into 'that dark kitchen where the slave must remain.' To that slave, 'no Bible is opened; for him, no prayer is heard.' Only a very few slaves ever attended preaching . They were kept at home on the Sabbath 'to cook, feed stock, catch and take care of horses and carriages for the family.' If their master allowed them to attend church, it was often the white church and was motivated by a desire to keep them from associating together outside of his watchful eye."
African American theologian, Dr. Howard Thurman in his profound book JESUS AND THE DISINHERITED (1949) has poignantly expressed similar facts with respect to slave masters' insecurities and to the slaves' own particular preferences for their own black preaching and preachers in his native South Carolina, similar to those of Scott Morse.
"Protestant Christianity dominated American public life during the antebellum period. The Calvinist denominations, the Congregationalist and Presbyterians in turn dominated establishment Protestantism."
Christianity is well over a thousand years older than the United States of America, or of homegrown-American racism. Christianity in fact came to America before racism was conceived and constructed here as the expedient, cultural, economic, legal, political, religious paradigm, that it became, after the American Revolution, and Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia .".
The uprooting of American racism, whose extremes were exemplified in 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina and most recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, therefore, requires re-traveling "the road less traveled," to quote poet Robert Frost. American racism's complete extirpation requires being true to the Christian religion, not false to it. True to its teachings were: General Toussaint L'Overture of Haiti, Prince Hall of the African Lodge Masons, Class Leader, Denmark Vesey, Bishop Richard Allen in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Absalom Jones in the Episcopal Church and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Baptist Church, and many unnamed others. Christian truth "will make all the difference," as Robert Frost intimates in conclusion.
Monday, August 14, 2017
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