justoffal
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There is no question that bad things happen in this world and that our human history is full of a record of bad things....one of those being slavery. Slavery, such as we know it is only a very small part of the whole historical picture...North American Slavery of Blacks is actually one of the smaller components of the entire slavery record with former world powers like Greece and Persia actually conquering and enslaving entire nations based not on skin color but simply on nationality.
That however does not diminish the harsh reality of the North American slave trade and we as a nation rightly bow our heads in shame when we remember it both culturally and as a historical fact...truly a dark chapter on the face of an otherwise brilliant nation.
It is to be expected of course that in the retreat from such poor behavior as a race of people that there will be an awakening and an outcry...this is all part of the healing. However there is also another reaction that is not part of the healing and that is the over-reaction that begs for revenge on a like for like basis...something that is understandable from the standpoint of human frailties but not from the standpoint of logic and reason since it is virtually impossible to do in any case.
This is a very broad subject so we need to specialize in order to present an intelligible post and we will do that by focusing solely on the new age movement that has arisen both from Black Cultural religiosity and righteous backlash against the former practices of one race against another. That movement is known by and large as Black Liberation Theology and suffers the unfortunate fate of being both righteously born even as it is insidiously twisted in both it's aims and its stated purposes as it does more to enslave it's adherents than the original bad practices of slavery did in the 1600's to 1800's of this nation.
First: BLT does more to enslave its adherents than it does to free them.
why do I say this? Because Sunday, in the BLT community is based on a false Christianity that includes skin color only brotherhood....this in turn creates a false sense of righteousness which becomes indignation, exclusivity, condescension and outright anger for the other six days of the week that these people have to deal with the real world that is not all Black. When was the last time you saw any white people at a BLT Sunday Sermon who were there as participants and not as penitents?
Second: BLT practitioners do not recognize individuals of other races...only whole races of people. Case in point right here on these boards are BLT pushers who will refer to you as whitey, whiteman, Crackah, The man...so on and so forth. They relentlessly and fastidiously broad brush all those without similar melanin counts as racist ( self defeating much? ) in some way or another. You see racism is necessary to the structure of BLT because it is a reaction not a genuine organic action and that in and of itself makes the entire motion a net negative for its participants placing them way back in the starting blocks of modern society that has long since shed its emotional and intellectual attachments to skin color privileges....the vestiges remain only because they provide a platform of deceit from which to pontificate and to collect money.
Third: Practitioners of BLT are unable to approach the real world with any sense of directionality since they have already decided that they are alone in society and must fight aggressively for even the right to walk on the sidewalk which makes them totally unaware of the real nature of the world around them and causes them to focus all happenstance solely on their skin color. This becomes apparent when interacting with them ( here on this board for instance) only to find that you are not a person but instead a pronoun in their vision of the world and are unable to stand away from your ownership of racism as far as they are concerned. This should be alarming to any healthy mind...because it smacks of cultism not liberation and not theology. It is strongly akin to movements like AA or NA that depend on the human tendency to over-react in order to react adequately....a poor strategy to be sure but for some perhaps they only way they can survive
We could go on for pages frankly.....but for the sake of humility and the briefness of a good OP Topic let's stop there and invite discussion below.
You can read more here: The Marxist roots of black liberation theology
Or here:Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Words
JO
That however does not diminish the harsh reality of the North American slave trade and we as a nation rightly bow our heads in shame when we remember it both culturally and as a historical fact...truly a dark chapter on the face of an otherwise brilliant nation.
It is to be expected of course that in the retreat from such poor behavior as a race of people that there will be an awakening and an outcry...this is all part of the healing. However there is also another reaction that is not part of the healing and that is the over-reaction that begs for revenge on a like for like basis...something that is understandable from the standpoint of human frailties but not from the standpoint of logic and reason since it is virtually impossible to do in any case.
This is a very broad subject so we need to specialize in order to present an intelligible post and we will do that by focusing solely on the new age movement that has arisen both from Black Cultural religiosity and righteous backlash against the former practices of one race against another. That movement is known by and large as Black Liberation Theology and suffers the unfortunate fate of being both righteously born even as it is insidiously twisted in both it's aims and its stated purposes as it does more to enslave it's adherents than the original bad practices of slavery did in the 1600's to 1800's of this nation.
First: BLT does more to enslave its adherents than it does to free them.
why do I say this? Because Sunday, in the BLT community is based on a false Christianity that includes skin color only brotherhood....this in turn creates a false sense of righteousness which becomes indignation, exclusivity, condescension and outright anger for the other six days of the week that these people have to deal with the real world that is not all Black. When was the last time you saw any white people at a BLT Sunday Sermon who were there as participants and not as penitents?
Second: BLT practitioners do not recognize individuals of other races...only whole races of people. Case in point right here on these boards are BLT pushers who will refer to you as whitey, whiteman, Crackah, The man...so on and so forth. They relentlessly and fastidiously broad brush all those without similar melanin counts as racist ( self defeating much? ) in some way or another. You see racism is necessary to the structure of BLT because it is a reaction not a genuine organic action and that in and of itself makes the entire motion a net negative for its participants placing them way back in the starting blocks of modern society that has long since shed its emotional and intellectual attachments to skin color privileges....the vestiges remain only because they provide a platform of deceit from which to pontificate and to collect money.
Third: Practitioners of BLT are unable to approach the real world with any sense of directionality since they have already decided that they are alone in society and must fight aggressively for even the right to walk on the sidewalk which makes them totally unaware of the real nature of the world around them and causes them to focus all happenstance solely on their skin color. This becomes apparent when interacting with them ( here on this board for instance) only to find that you are not a person but instead a pronoun in their vision of the world and are unable to stand away from your ownership of racism as far as they are concerned. This should be alarming to any healthy mind...because it smacks of cultism not liberation and not theology. It is strongly akin to movements like AA or NA that depend on the human tendency to over-react in order to react adequately....a poor strategy to be sure but for some perhaps they only way they can survive
We could go on for pages frankly.....but for the sake of humility and the briefness of a good OP Topic let's stop there and invite discussion below.
You can read more here: The Marxist roots of black liberation theology
Or here:Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Words
JO