ONE-DROP RULE

For there is no difference between the Jew(black) and the Greek(white): for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For Whosoever Shall Call Upon The Name Of The Lord Shall Be Saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent?..................................................THE BOOK OF ROMANS


WASHINGTON ---- The Justice Department is suing the city of Ferguson in an attempt to forcibly overhaul the city's troubled police and court operations, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday. 

Lynch said the residents of Ferguson have been waiting "decades for justice," having endured civil rights breaches that establish a pattern and practice of racially biased policing.

 "I think the city of Ferguson had a real opportunity to step forward here, " a visibly disappointed attorney general said. " Instead, they have chosen to step in the past."

Apparently, Attorney General Lynch has forgotten that black people have no rights that America is obligated to acknowledge, honor, protect, or enforce.

She has forgotten the One-Drop Rule.

The One-Drop Rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that is historically prominent in the United States and became codified into law in the 20th century. It basically asserts that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan- African ancestry("one drop" of black blood) is considered  to be black, non-human and an alien.

Having One Drop of black blood has always been a serious problem in America.

Consider this:                                                    

In 1950, Luther Cox, a well known segregationist, was the authority figure in charge of registered voters in Forrest County, Mississippi. Cox would only authorize a registration of a black person if they could answer the question "How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?"

Because of the multiple complexions of black people - a variety of tests were instituted and performed to distinguish whites from blacks. The pencil text is a method of assessing whether a person was black or white.

The pencil test involved sliding a pencil or pen in the hair of a person whose racial group was uncertain.  If the pencil fell to the floor, the person "passed" and was considered "white." If it stuck, the person's hair was considered too kinky to be white and the person was classified as "coloured" (of mixed racial heritage.)          

America has always instituted laws and programs to maintain separatism. Not long ago in American history the United States had a law called the anti-miscegenation law(also known as miscegenation laws). These laws were laws passed by individual states to prohibit  miscegenation, nowadays more commonly referred to as interracial marriage and interracial sex.

In many states in America interracial marriage was a felony offense.

The laws not only prohibited interracial marriages but also prohibited clergy from officiating such ceremonies.  Sometimes, the individuals attempting to marry would not be held guilty of miscegenation itself, but felony charges of adultery or fornication would be brought against them instead.

In light of a plethora of shenanigan's instituted against black, poor, and oppressed people in this country, for the federal government  to have to force the city of Ferguson into police reform makes it all so obvious that black people in America - are still- under siege.

You cant legislate laws that change peoples hearts away from their culture, up-bringing, and beliefs.

The hearts and minds of Americans has to be changed -- there has to be a re-birth of spiritual righteousness and unfortunately government laws and practicing religion cant do it - only God can do it.

 But Americans have to want to be born again.

 They must want a change of heart, mind and soul because God is not going to force "love' on anybody.

 But He can make you wish that you had excepted righteousness willingly.

As President Obama's term winds down, the message of Republican candidate Donald Trump has resonated with many white voters who feel their place at the top is being usurped. His racial coded language has not stopped thousands of mostly whites who fill venues to hear his message.

Why is Trumps message 'to take our country back" so popular?

Because there is a fear in many Americans that support Trump  that white people are being left behind and soon will be vanquished.

That's why the widespread violence that is alive and well in Ferguson and other cities across America is like a clarion call to white race warriors.      

Khari Enahoro, author of "Race Code War, The Power of Words, Images And Symbols on The Black Psyche states that, "All police are not white supremacist, but there are white supremacist who will disguise themselves as police, and they will engage in racial injustice.    

 As a child my mother always taught me that, "You are not better than anyone else, but no one else is better than you either.........amen

Marvel not....Ye must be born again!!!!!!

                                                                    TG4RG

                                                                       

Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Hand Make This World A Better Place...If You Can......................Diana Ross.......1970

                                                       

WHITE HIS - STORY MONTH

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.


Probably the greatest act that crystallized the justification of European slave trading was the Catholic priest Bartholomo de las Casas' writing in his encyclical to the papacy that these people (the Africans) were without souls and suitable for the torturous work in the Americas.

 The result was carte blanche exploritation justified and sanctioned by the Western Church, marking the very beginning of racial prejudice.

 It was at this point in history that Western culture determined all evil as black and Satanic and all good was white and of God. Based upon the assumption of Padre de las Casas the Western Church for more than 300 years, without any compunction or intervention, practically authorized the massive trafficking in human cargo.                                                                                            

The Western Church of America and the world has yet to acknowledge the inadequacy effectuated upon the people of color--the unjust recipients of the evil masterplot to exploit and pillage under the protectorate of The New Covenant.

Maybe - if, from the very beginning the Western Cristian Church had taught the truth and the mercy of God and had administered love and kindness to those whom they taught, to this day there would not be so many thousands upon thousands of black men and women, boys and girls incarcerated, homeless, jobless, confined to mental institutions, uneducated, mis-educated, and literally despondent - without hope in this land of plenty.

Had only the white ministers been true ambassadors for Christ.

You cannot pick up a news magazine without finding an article on racism. The need for reconciliation and healing between the races surfaces in nearly every form of media. It cries for attention and healing.

 Racism is a complex and sensitive issue.

Yet, the healing of our communities and our cities will not occur until the church is re-born, delivered of cultural pride and insolence. The only why for the church to become a source of healing it has to become a source of truth first.

 It has to be born-again of the spirit of God and up rooted from the many practices of religion.

Much of the violence we are reaping in our cites today was sown during the era when blacks were enslaved. To understand racism and its effects upon our society we must step back into the days when slavery was an American way of life. We must understand that racism is to modern times what slavery was to our forefathers; racism is the spirit behind slavery.

Although slavery was legally abolished in the eighteen-hundredths, racism continued.

The fact is, much of the violence in our cities today is the bitter fruit of a tree America cultivated in the soil of racism and slavery. The wounds of slavery remains in the soul of many Black young males and females today, propelling a growing percentage of Black youth to violence.

These young people neither understand their actions nor can they find a way out from the shroud of death which broods over their neighborhoods.

After studying what has been done to the black race, it is amazing that anyone should be puzzled by the deterioration of society in the black community.

If we continue , to fail, to obey God, our cities will continue to bear an increasing likeness to hell.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

TG4RG

 

You've Got To Believe In Somethin Why Not Believe In Me........Pointer Sisters...1976





FEED MY PEOPLE

                                                                        

This is no time for fine words, but a time to lift one's voice against the savagery of a people who claim to be the dispensers of democracy..............Marcus Garvey

Praise God!!!........Why?.........Because He has never left us alone.......God has always ordained that his spirit would manifest in the flesh of up-right men.

 Men who were called, chosen, qualified and then sent to feed Gods people with the bread of life and  water from the cup of righteousness. Our Creator has never failed to send to us somebody who's only concern for living was to up-lift fallen humanity.

Christ, the Master Teacher, and perfect example, gave a mandate to His disciples to 'feed my people'.

One of the most effective teaching strategies used in academia is called "explicit teacher modeling,' whereby the teacher embodies or demonstrates for the student the academic concept to be learned.

 The concept decreed by God requires that if I love you- like I say I  do - I will prove it by living a life of truth. Not talking about truth....... but becoming truth....in thoughts, deeds, and actions.

The way is already set.

 Many others have attempted to follow The Christ mandate. The love teachings of Christ has been often imitated but never duplicated.  So how will you know Gods men? You will know them by what they do - not by what they say.  God has called some men to up-lift fallen humanity by Gods permission and on Gods authority, but you can only know them by their spiritual message, not by their huge following.

 Unfortunately, not many are being called today because our people are not being fed but rather are being mislead by pimps in the pulpit.

Its apparent that most of todays so-called leaders are masters of deception  because there is no love and no acknowledgement of God in the land.

There are thousands of preachers in America talking about God but none are acting like Him.

Many of them just don't know any better but the majority of them are just afraid to speak out against injustice for fear of reprisal from the government.

In 1954, then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, introduced House Resolution 235, which added churches to section 501C3 of the tax code.

The resolution ordered that all churches and non-profit organization were restricted from speaking in favor of or against political candidates and political and social issues. In essence what they did was silenced the church from speaking truth to power about politicians and programs that were detrimental to the Black community.

Today, the masses of Gods people  are lost because America is practicing economic racism and the church is sticking its head in the sand and pretending to not see.

 Politics and economics are inseparable.

Yet, the so-called leaders/preachers in the community are telling the masses that all that is required is to just believe in Jesus. Our communities are under attack and plantation religion is partly responsible.

We are being given pacifiers instead of food because the church doesn't want to lose its tax status.

Black Americans spend in excess of $1.2 trillion annually in the nation's economy yet that kind of spending volume has not translated into real economic power.

                                                                        Why?

 Because the so-called leaders are not concerned with feeding the people; they are only concerned with feeding themselves and not making the government mad. 

They love to talk Jesus to you,  but no one wants to be like Him.

 Cant you see why?

Ye must be born again!!!!!!


                                                             
                       TG4RG

We Are One......Maze featuring Frankie Beverly.......1983 

FEAR HIM

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you. FEAR HIM.

WASHINGTON(AFP) - US President Barack Obama wept openly as he urged America to wake up to the need to tackle the gun violence that claims tens of thousands of lives in the country each year.

Tears streamed down the President's cheeks as he summoned the memory of the 20 elementary school children slaughtered three years ago in Newtown Connecticut.

"Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad, "the president said."

Senseless violence is tragic indeed - but it is not new. Not in Amerikkka.

Malcolm X described the violence that plagues this country as "chickens coming home to roost" or its just America "reaping what she has sown'" or as The God Father of Soul, James Brown described it, "The Big Pay Back."

Granted, we should sympathise with the victims at Newtown and with all the other victims of horror that have constantly been making the news, but while we are weeping lets weep for some victims of violence that didn't appear on Prime Time TV, for instance:

In May 1917, three thousand white men gathered in downtown East St. Louis and attacks on blacks began. The NAACP estimated deaths at 100-200. Six thousand blacks were left homeless after their neighborhood was burned. The true number of deaths will never be known because many corpses were not recovered, or did not pass through the hands of undertakers.

Exceptional outbreaks of terror and violence is at an all time high in America, however, violence against people of color in  America has always been - the rule -  instead of - the exception.

White power promoters have taken off their robes - well some of them - but the idealism that one part of the human race should live in perpetual servitude and indebtedness to another is built into the fabric of the country.

 Even today, in St. Louis,  there is a secret society called the Veiled Prophet Organization that was founded by prominent St. Louisans around the early 1900's. Each year they hold a parade/event, and a gala ball to honor themselves, their accomplishments and their power to define their control over the St. Louis political, business, civic and social industries.

Currently the 4th of July weekend event is called Fair St. Louis.

 The name had to be changed because, somehow, someone let the "cat outta the bag" that a private organization was using public tax-payer dollars to promote and sponsor their private parties.

So they had to re-name the festivities from - The VP Fair to Fair St. Louis  - to continue to use city money for their shindig.

However, everything else has remained the same.

The organization is still comprised of the elite social hierarchy members of the Ku Klux Klan.

 Down through the years prominent individuals in St. Louis, and the world, with names like Danforth, Busch, Schnucks, Maritz, and McDonnell have all been chosen the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan and resided over the week-end gala event.

 Ellie Kemper, the daughter of David Woods Kemper, chairman and chief executive officer of Commerce Banks, and the temporary co-host of the NBC News morning program, "The Today Show was once crowned the "Queen of Love and Beauty and made up the "Veiled Prophet's Court of Honor." 

Currently, the parade, ball, and gala week-end is basically a show, for all the world to see, of force and power of the elite, Christian, white privileged class controlling St. Louis, the region, and more.

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath the power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, FEAR HIM.

Ye must be born again!!!
                                                                 TG4RG

There Is No place Like America Today.......Curtis Mayfield - 1975 

AMERICAN TERRORISM

     "You can tell what they are by what they do"

In 1942 the Justice Department determined that there were 1,100,000 "enemy aliens" in America.

These individuals were deemed "enemy aliens" because they  represented a clear and present danger to the security of the U.S.A. The total included 92,000 Japanese, 315,000 Germans, and 695,000 Italians. This group of people were required to carry their "enemy alien registration cards" at all times.


Today, Donald Trump, American business magnate, investor, author, television personality, and candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election is the front-runner in public opinion polls for the Republican Party nomination.

His popular anti-illegal immigrant politics, and his latest Geo-political tirade - the call for a moratorium on foreign Muslims entering the United States - has earned considerable support among working class voters.  Its ironic that many of these working class voters are - for the most part - descendants of the people deemed "enemy aliens" of yesterday.

Mr. Trump is playing into the anti-Muslim sentiment sweeping this country like a plague. His position is, if we curtail Muslims and their movements - terrorism will cease.

 Mr. Trump is to intelligent to believe that.

Although, he did reiterate  that America is as guilty of perpetuating violence in the world, as any other country. Still, Mr. Trump needs a history lesson on what violence is.  Maybe then he will realize that America is not as guilty but America leads the world in violence.

Old Testament Scholar Terence Fretheim writes:

For many people....only physical violence truly qualifies as violence. But certainly, violence is more than killing people, unless one includes all those words and action that kill people slowly.

We must insist that there are many other forms of violence.

Violence also refers to that which is psychologically destructive, that which demeans, damages, or depersonalizes others.

In view of these considerations, violence my be defined as follows: any action, verbal or nonverbal, oral or written. physical or psychical, active or passive, public or private, individual or institutional/societal, human or divine, in whatever degree of intensity, that abuse, violates, injures, or kills.

 Some of the most pervasive and most dangerous forms of violence are those that are often hidden from view - against women and children, especially. Violence that festers and grows just beneath the surface in many of our homes, churches, and communities. Violence and abuse so horrific its more than enough to freeze the blood.

 Moreover, many forms of systemic violence often slip, - by intent or design -past our attention because they are so much a part of the infrastructure of American life (e.g., racism, sexism, and ageism).

America has been practicing genocide and terrorism against Black people even before the first slave ship docked.

For more than four hundred years Black people have been terrorized simply because we wanted to be treated in a humane manner.

 We have been bombarded by America because we believed in and practiced the commandments ordained of God that we should love God first with all our being and then love they neighbor as thyself.

Striving for righteousness has been the cause of our untimely demise. Because unrighteous and hypocritical America refuses to accept and honor Gods word.

God said do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Mr.Trump has just a few more hurdles to jump. 

He has already persecuted homosexuals, Latinos, and Muslims. So you really don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what group or race of people are next on President Trumps hit list?

Time is short, the hand writing is already on the wall. The Divine Judgment of God is already in motion. Unity will be thrust upon us even if we don't embrace it willingly.  Chose you this day who you will follow.

Ye must be born again
                                                                           TG4RG

The World Is a Ghetto......War........ 1972

CRUCIFY HIM

Why, what evil has he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.

King Herod Antipas and Pontius Pilate, governor of Roman Judea, wanted nothing to do with the execution of Jesus the Christ. It was the Hebrew Nation - not the Romans - that wanted His head served on a platter. The massive chant "crucify Him!!!"  - "crucify Him!!!"came from His own family men, His own kinsmen, they where the ones who wanted Him dead. The pompous and religious Isrealites, the ones that thought they knew Him, the ones that thought He wasn't nothing but the son of a carpenter, with a rag-tag bunch of outkast following Him. These are the ones who cried out "crucify Him" for He is not the one we want.

Although, the masses of the Jewish Hebrew community were just following their leaders - the pharises, the sucusess, and the priests.

Why are we so fixated on killing God's messengers?

The reason is partially become many of us still harbor that - crabs in a barrel - plantation mentality, every time one of us stands up for righteousness and truth, we the people, are often the very ones to bring Him down.  Many of us are about to miss the return of Christ simply because He will not be what we expected.  The bible states that He will not come with peace but yea a sword.

God has gotten tired of our foolishness. There is a stench in the nostrils of God because of our disobedience.

Children of the Most High God do we realize that we are killing each other in the inner cities of America in an unprecedented way.

During the darkest days of slavery when the masters would pit the strongest of  us against one another, to fight to the death, so that they could make a profit and be entertained by our misery - we never killed like this. In those days we were forced to kill one another....nobody is forcing us today.

 We are killing one another just for being Black and breathing air.!!!!

 Satan has our communities and many of us on a certain and clear path to destruction.

Why?

Because of our separation from God and His righteousness. Our only hope is in becoming godly sorrow and pleading to God for a true remission and repentance of sin followed by instruction in - and a return to  - the righteousness of God which will cause righteousness toward self and others.

The late Gil-Scott Heron, artist, poet and musician, once said; " America is sitting on the edge of it's seat, defeat is on the horizon, and it's very surprising that we "ALL" can see the plot, yet claim that we cannot."

Many believe that the crisis plaguing America, and especially Black America, is not an accident. Sam Blumenfeld, a leading advocate for phonics and the founder of "Hooked On Phonics", believes the inability to read is one of the major problems effecting us in our communties. He blames functional illiteracy as a major cause of the devastation in the Black community. Functional illiteracy has a substantial link to poverty and crime. He further states that, "Functional illiteracy is not a mystery, it is a Socialist plan to dumb-down the American people, particularly the Black and poor.

Christ came professing that, "ye must be born again." In order to be freed from the madness and trickery of this world you have to have an "inner' change. In order to get something you never had, you have to do something that you have never done. Who you are -  has to die, so who He wants you to be - can live. There has to be a manifestation of the spirit of God in the flesh of man/woman in order for righteousness to prevail in thoughts, deeds, and actions.

The religious leader's of that day had Him crucified for telling the truth about God. 

Who will they be crucifying today?

Know who you follow.

                                                                             TG4RG

                                                                                

                                                  Better Days Ahead.....Gil Scott Heron

OBEDIENCE

    "I came into the world to save sinners of which I Am Chief"

Federal law suits were recently filed against the county towns of Ferguson and Jennings, Missouri on behalf of poor people who spent time in their jails for failure to pay fines for traffic violations and minor offenses.

 The lawsuits claim that those jailed were held indefinitely; were not provided with attorneys; and were kept in unsanitary conditions without adequate medical care. The suits claim that at least four people unable to pay for their freedom have committed suicide in jail in the past five months.

The U.S. Constitution, explicitly, forbids incarceration as punishment for indigence...or... in other words... incarceration for being poor in America.

How can it be that the most wealthiest and professed - holiest - nation on earth still maintains poverty and racism as the darkest scourges in the fabric of American society?

Today the spotlight is on Ferguson and Jennings. A few days ago the spot light was on New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina.

Who can forget that for a week the world watched people walking for miles in waist-deep water, the countless children that were separated from their parents, the cries of people dying in the streets and living on roof-tops and on Interstate 10? Who doesn't remember the countless bodies floating in contaminated water, and the human beings begging for a drop water? All those drastic visions only dramatize the magnitude of the problems and the shame of America's failure to deal justly with the poor.

It's written that God's people suffer for a lack of knowledge.

Primarily a lack of knowledge of God and His Creation, followed by a separation from God and His plan of salvation. Further we suffer from a lack of knowledge concerning ourselves - the children of God - and a lack of knowledge concern the world we live in. 

We have become weaker and wiser...wise to worldly things and weaker to what God requires...obedience.

 Doing what's right in the eyes of God requires constantly striving to stay in a state of constant prayer. Attempting to always be conscious of God's presence in our lives. Being determined to over-come sin's of the flesh with right thoughts, deeds, and actions that proceed from the heart.

In most jurisdictions within the United States, people can be held in contempt of court and jailed after "willfully" non-payment of child support, garnishments, confiscations, fines,  and back taxes.

However, if you make, "ALL" your court appearance's, and tell the truth, chances are, you can stay out of jail. Often we go to jail for dis-obedience..."willfully" failing to appear.  And then when we do appear, we attempt to lie our way out of the situation.

To take your place as a child of God requires.... aspiring to perfection in this life....living up-right...repenting...and allowing God to draw and guide your soul to Himself.

Church Fathers and theologians distinguish three stages or states of perfection. The state of beginners,  the state of the progressing, and the state of the perfect.

You must practice what you profess.

It all starts with obedience.........Ye must be born again!!!
                                                         TH4RG

Keep Ya Head Up.......2PAC.....1998