Ephesians 5:29
AFRICAN DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA HAVE "HATED" THEIR OWN BODIES, THROUGH CONDITIONING, AND TOO MANY STILL DO.
"BODIES" MEANS: THEIR IMAGES, FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, INSTITUTIONS, HISTORIES, GOALS, AND ASPIRATIONS. SO, THEY STRIKE OUT TO BLOT OUT THAT HATRED BY MURDER, MAYHEM, MALEVOLENCE, AND MADNESS OF ALL KINDS BY THEIR SCIONS.
THIS UNUSUAL HATRED WAS ONCE RESISTED BY FAITH IN GOD. THIS FAITH PROPELLED THEM TO FREEDOM. THIS FAITH AND SELF-DETERMINATION, ITS CONSTANT CONSORT, POWERED THEM THROUGH SLAVERY, THE CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS BETRAYAL, AND THE EXODUSES OUT OF THE SOUTH.
THEREBY, THESE HEROIC AFRICANS REALIZED "ONENESS" WITH THE FATHER THROUGH JESUS, HIS SON. BUT, SUCH VITAL SOUL-RESISTANCE INEVITABLY FADED AS ITS SOURCE, "FAITH," ALSO FADED OVER THE YEARS, AND OVER THE MILES FROM THE RURAL SOUTH, WHERE IT BEGAN AND FLOURISHED. EMBOLDENED WHITE TERRORISTS --NO LONGER FEARFUL OF PROSECUTION BY EQUALLY TERRORISTS, LEGAL OFFICIALS-- EXTIRPATED THESE COMMENDABLE GAINS AND KILLED MANY SAINTED ONES, NEAR THE CUSP OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN TOO MANY CITIES TO NAME.
BUT, THROUGH IT ALL, OUR PEOPLE PERSEVERED. THROUGH TERRORISM, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, COMMUNALISM, ATHEISM, AGNOSTICISM, GARVEYISM, PAN-AFRICANISM, ISLAMISM, ESOTERICISM, SEGREGATION, INTEGRATION, PEONAGE, SHARECROPPING, GHETTOISM AND SUBURBANISM.
WE ARE STILL HERE; ALBEIT WITH A PERSISTENT AND PERPLEXING ITCH, CALLED "BLACK-ON-BLACK" CRIME, AND AN IDIOPATHIC PARESTHESIA, KNOWN AS "MASS INCARCERATION."
THIS "BODY" --THIS PEOPLE--MUST BE "FED AND CARED FOR" BY THEMSELVES, AND NOT REMAIN HELPLESS MENTAL VICTIMS, PSYCHICALLY, SPIRITUALLY. RATHER AS FERTILE SPIRITS AT ONE WITH THE CREATOR, WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF ANYTHING, THEY MUST SURGE FORWARD IN FAITH, LOVE, AND POWER, KNOWING THAT "WE CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE WILL" TO QUOTE MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY! -- WHATEVER ONE IMAGINES AND WORKS TO ACHIEVE IN ACCORD WITH THE GLORY OF GOD.
THE SAPPING VICTIMIZATION SPIRIT HAS LINGERED IN TOO MANY AFRICANS, AND THEIR DESCENDANTS FAR TOO LONG. THE BATTLE HAS BEEN WON; THE COST HAS BEEN PAID. RISE UP AND CLAIM YOUR OWN IN KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, VIRTUE AND GLORY
