The sad fact to face as a lay person, and a pastor is the resistance of Black and White Americans to go against the traditional relationship set up between slave and master (black and white) in the American lexicon of relationship. The question we all ask ourselves at some point in our existence is what do we do about it when we see it affecting our offspring. But, the interpretation of the Eastern document (the Bible) by Western thought binds honesty to a pillar thus preventing clarity from gaining power in the consciousness of everyone bound by the rules of subjugation.
Freedom is feared amongst Americans because of its demands to look each other in the eye and tell the truth, and to look one's self in the eye and decide to embody the truth. Because white Americans chose to view the Bible as a means to subjugate they are unable to lose themselves from the bondage they created. Entombed in fear the white man turns white with the element, and Black men turn grim against the reasons to become men and become free. Black people, as a whole have become Wasicun Sapa (Black White People) in the name of survival, and white Americans have learned to bully. This is why the symbol of Jesus remains, by popular denial, white. This is the American story, and why so many Christians from other countries come here as missionaries. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7.24.13
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