My Journey Through The Roots Of Being Black
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"When the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning in the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Church Studies and You
It is very important that the African American People go back in time to define our identity. I am ashamed that I know more about white history than I do Black history. I took for granted that my white education was the keys to open up doors, versus the black history of our people, which releases the chains that has bonded us. This is only the beginning, I encourage everyone to get this book "Black Church Studies" An Introduction, because it explains the heritage of our people before the injecting of the European christian religions and take us back into the history of our ancestors. What the Black Churches of today and yesterday is a continuing force on how we celebrate our beliefs in God and the gospels. Before we go and reach out to even more versions of Christianity, other gods and spirituality, we need to go back in time and identify with our own. We believe in God, way before the slaves hit the shores of America. What has happen, it was indigenous of our roots in Africa, not of the Europeans that enslaved our ancestors. Therefore, our history in the Black Churches are hidden to us and replace by dogma of America and European Christianity. This is in no means of separating what has been brought together, but to understand our place in society today, we need to travel back in time and discover our roots from the past. Please get this book and make it a group study, I promise you will not regret it.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Black A Life Cycle
This is my journal of finding the roots of Black America. Let's be straight forward, are people of Black skin still living in the state of being docile. Our ancestors were consider being influence by white american cultural and today, that still stands true. Where is our cultural boundaries? Have we yet fully identified who Black Skin People really are? Are we really making a true statement, when we say, we are all the same and race should not define who we are? Does race really make the difference in our present state and our own cultural norm of society? How does the social justice systems work for us or against us? Hopefully, this blog will start a dialog that will help not just African Americans/Africans to start talking about these issues, but will evolve into a national foundation where racism can no longer be ignore.
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