This chief in the attached video, got it right…maybe because he is living with the reality of the truth. Every day dozens of African American kids are killed or injured in America’s inner cities. No one gives a damn about these kids who are dying everyday! Who is fighting for their civil rights? We have our Civil Rights leaders who are sitting on a lot of grants and donated monies which they use to enriched themselves. They are just sitting around waiting for incidences such as Ferguson to go screaming in microphone with catchy rhymes and controversial slogans. We have kids killing each other in a neighborhood where the leader of our country resided for years, yet he has yet to speak into or about this ongoing tragedy. Every weekend in South Florida an African American kid is gunned down. Just today, two teenagers were shot near a local school. No one asks who they are…no one shouts out catchy rhymes and slogans for them. Only their families know who they are!! Their deaths don’t bring in donations to the NAACPs of the world. Their deaths don’t raise the ratings of the local news programs. Oh yeah, their deaths don’t have the excitement of that racial component drama.
The Civil Rights Movement (CRM) that our grandparents and parents knew and were a part of no longer exists. The CRM that is in operation now cannot even be described as a shadow of the past. The movement is now headed by those who are looking for opportunities to enrich themselves first. Then there are those who will forever and always view all the issues with the African American community as a cause of racism. The views and messages that they expressed are “though you are doing wrong to your own” it not your fault, racism is the cause. Your violation of the civil rights of your neighbors is caused by others. All along, these CRM leaders would like the situation to remain the same. If it changes for the better they may just become redundant. Grants and donation may cease as their purpose or justification to exist diminishes.
So what do we have in return? We have leaders who are so far removed from the messages of Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks and many more who have sacrificed and died for this noble cause. These leaders of old paved the way through a righteous message, clothed with the Gospel. These leaders took nothing to enrich themselves, only seeking to enrich others. They preached the Love that can only be found in Christ. They demanded nothing from anyone; they just dreamed of a fair chance at the opportunities that are available to society as a whole. They did not demand any special treatment, nor did they demand any handouts. They believed that the people they championed were just as capable of being upright, productive citizens as any other peoples, given the same opportunity.
Today, most of the civil rights violations that occur in the African American community are from within. These violations occur in the form of crime, abortion (which I believe is a crime also), and suppression of one’s capabilities. Crime has ravaged these communities to the point that people become prisoners in their own homes. Kids are in grave danger just by doing innocent things such as playing in parks, waiting at bus stops, and frighteningly, even just sitting on their daddy’s lap. As a matter of fact, there are those who choose to sleep on the floor in their homes because of the fear that bullets may penetrate the walls of their homes.
Percentage wise, abortion has taken the lives of more African American babies that any other race. We are talking about millions of lives whose basic civil rights to live were snuffed out. Abortion is a practice that the CRM not only allowed to occur, but promoted its expansion and lobbied for the its legalization.
Then there is the civil rights issue by which the people are made to believe that they are not able to overcome their circumstances, and the only way of survival is by government assistance. This government assistance, better known as the Welfare System, has trapped many to be dependent upon the government. This existing state of the Welfare System has imprisoned many generations of families within it’s systematic entrapment policies. A system the discourages the unifying structure of the family as God created it to be. The CRM of today supports this welfare process and champions it as the saving grace for African Americans, at the same time ignoring its role in the destruction of the building block of any community and country: the family!
Speaking of the destruction of the family, we now have an African American president who has done more for the behavioral practices of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community than he has for the African American community. The president has placed more credence on the lifestyle practices of these people than the protection of the innocent lives of the unborn and children growing up in their neighborhoods. As a matter of fact, our president has made more supporting remarks for the LGBT way of life, than for the thousands of aborted and murdered children that occurred within blocks of the community he resided in before moving on to Washington. The CRM leaders have not challenged the president on the deafening silence towards this great tragedy that is ongoing. However, our CRM leaders did join him in convincing the American people that there is a war against women and the trumped up accusation that the opposition is trying to reinstitutionalized slavery. All is done for the cause of political gain, ignoring the true and real issues that are holding back an entire race of people.
My prayer and dream tonight is that God will give us Civil Rights leaders who are upright in their ways. Civil Rights leaders who have a heart after God’s own Heart, that when they speak the love of Christ is expressed. Civil Rights leaders who will ensure that there are justice and morality within and around their own communities, before they go searching for it elsewhere. Change must come, before justice prevail!
“Looking in before we go looking out!” (https://thebranchlife.com/2013/07/23/looking-in-looking-out/ )
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