Advisory:This post is off-topic and not about Christian Fiction. I was disappointed earlier this week when Jesse Jackson made a commenting negating Barack Obama's commitment to sound-boarding human rights issues. Christ died so that we could be free from our sins. Martin Luther King, Jr. died so that we may live free in this world. We are free. We don't need a spokesperson to declare our freedom. We are freedom. It's time that we start living a free life. No black person defines our thoughts, nor motivate us to act. Injustices does that. And that should be enough.
I understand Rev. Jacksons passion for the Jena 6, but stating that a black man is "acting white" belittles the Jena 6 case and the Civil Rights Movement( I will expound more in my next post.) Yesterday's protest wasn't about systemic racism against blacks, but injustice everywhere. Moreover, that comment--to me- stinks of prejudice. African-American people are not robots. We do not look, act, or think the same. Grant it, it is horrid that we do not know or understand American Immigration History, especially as it relates to the History of African-American Slavery, Native American Seminole dissidence,Creole Concubines, Sierra Leon Migration, Sugar Plantations and Caribbean Immigration of the 20th century and African exiles post 1990s.
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