Every person that is born into this world is firstly identified by his race. His racial identity is just as important as his s*xual gender is because the person is either born male or female.
The next thing for the person to do is to look around and see if there are others that look like him. If the person was one of a kind then the person racial identity would not be a factor, but when he sees 41 million other people that looks like him then he obviously knows that he belongs to a race and that he is not just one of a kind. Am I right so far?
Going a little further than physical traits and features the person learns that he is in the same negative suppressive and racist circumstances as the other 41 million of his people are in. So, the person knows that he is also a part of this specific group of people by circumstances as well.
This Black American John Doe comes to realize that he and his people are racially suppressed in many ways. He learns that he is a descendent of plantation slaves. He sees that Black Americans are racially suppressed by White America’s Christian religion. I say it this way because most so called Muslims were once Christians themselves. Siebra Muhammad’s family was once Christians. Elijah Muhammad came from a Christian family. Our Black American John Doe concludes that being in such a situation him and his Black American people are nothing and have nothing and will never have anything if he and his Black American people doesn’t reach and cry out to God for help as the Children of Israel did am I right.
Our Black American John Doe knows that he can not present himself to God in the religion and prophets of other people because we are not those people and so we must have our own prophet and religion with us when we go to God.
From God we want our own seat in the audience among the other different races of people in the world such as the Jews, European Gentiles and Arabians have with God. Then we want our own prophet, and then we want our own religion. And, then we want our own country. These are the things we want from God. And, God has guaranteed to us through me that these things and more will be given to us. The first thing we have is our first genuine prophet. How else would you know all these things if there is not a prophet to tell us?
So, how important is RACE? Very important because knowing who we are and how we got here is very important since it reflects how much we know of ourselves and how intelligent we as a people are.
Many of us like Dr. King, Elijah and Farrakhan thinks that they are intelligent, but it is a false positive.
A change is coming and has already started, but many of you all don’t see it yet.
Only God can help us. Not even the best intent of White American can help us.
Good morning Harry!
Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 12:05PM
Yaiqab Saint
Race/Nationality/Origins... yes Race Matters.... you silly ole dummy!
Tuesday, February 5th 2013 at 7:08PM
Cynthia Merrill Artis
Cynthia,
Since you say that race matters then how does it matter? Steve believes that it does matter. As a matter of fact Steve believes that we all one race and that there are no differences between the billions of people on this earth.
Get it right Harry. Of course there are differences among the billions of people on planet Earth. But all are of the one species Homo Sapiens.
Wednesday, February 6th 2013 at 7:55AM
Steve Williams
I've posted my contribution to African American History Month. Enjoy Harry.
Presidential Proclamation: National African American History Month, 2013
By The President of The United States of America
A Proclamation
In America, we share a dream that lies at the heart of our founding: that no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter how modest your beginnings or the circumstances of your birth, you can make it if you try. Yet, for many and for much of our Nation's history, that dream has gone unfulfilled. For African Americans, it was a dream denied until 150 years ago, when a great emancipator called for the end of slavery. It was a dream deferred less than 50 years ago, when a preacher spoke of justice and brotherhood from Lincoln's memorial. This dream of equality and fairness has never come easily -- but it has always been sustained by the belief that in America, change is possible.
Today, because of that hope, coupled with the hard and painstaking labor of Americans sung and unsung, we live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach for people of every color and creed. National African American History Month is a time to tell those stories of freedom won and honor the individuals who wrote them. We look back to the men and women who helped raise the pillars of democracy, even when the halls they built were not theirs to occupy. We trace generations of African Americans, free and slave, who risked everything to realize their God-given rights. We listen to the echoes of speeches and struggle that made our Nation stronger, and we hear again the thousands who sat in, stood up, and called out for equal treatment under the law. And we see yesterday's visionaries in tomorrow's leaders, reminding us that while we have yet to reach the mountaintop, we cannot stop climbing.
Today, Dr. King, President Lincoln, and other shapers of our American story proudly watch over our National Mall. But as we memorialize their extraordinary acts in statues and stone, let us not lose sight of the enduring truth that they were citizens first. They spoke and marched and toiled and bled shoulder-to-shoulder with ordinary people who burned with the same hope for a brighter day. That legacy is shared; that spirit is American. And just as it guided us forward 150 years ago and 50 years ago, it guides us forward today. So let us honor those who came before by striving toward their example, and let us follow in their footsteps toward the better future that is ours to claim.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 2013 as National African American History Month. I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.
So, when you say get it right Harry and you go on to say that of course there are differences among the billions of people on planet earth what are you say exactly?
Are you agreeing with me that these differences are racial differences? Explain what exactly to you mean when you say differences?
I'll give you an example Harry. We are told (it may be true or not) that everyone's fingerprints are different.
Thursday, February 7th 2013 at 11:20AM
Steve Williams
