Jonathots Daily Blog
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Humans are the race
Not the color of their face
BAD
Like millions of other Americans, I assumed that we had tracked down Jim Crow, put him on trial, convicted him and imprisoned him forever in a small cell of disgrace.
But lo and behold, it turns out that he was not imprisoned at all. Rather, he was taken into a witness protection program, sent away to be refined, get a little plastic surgery and come back to us in this season.
Shall we call him James Crown?
Mr. James Crown, the grandson of Jim Crow, is not nearly as bigoted, ignorant nor self-righteous. He does not contend that some race is inferior but continues to promote the idea of “separate but equal.” This, of course, was the false premise that began our national trial in the first place.
Black people don’t have to go to their own bathrooms anymore.
But we do signify that whatever they pursue, think, vote, believe and regard needs to have the word “black” in front of it.
- The African American market
- A poll taken in “the black community”
- The black voter
- The black church
- The black culture
Here’s where James Crown is much trickier than his grandpa, Jim Crow. He pulls off this separatism by making sure we never refer to “the white market, the white community, the white voter, the white church or the white culture.” If he did so, it would expose James Crown for being the hidden racist he truly is. Instead, he tries to appear educated and open-minded by talking about cultural differences—how wonderful they are.
We don’t have any sniff of the Ku Klux Klan because we never attribute the same promotion to white people. If we did, we would identify it immediately as prejudice.
But today we have people interested in their ancestry.
At first, this was, “What part of Africa did your ancestors come from?”
But now we ask, “Where in Europe did you immigrate from?”
It’s all very unseemly—very bad. It enables a city council in a Mississippi town to name a street “Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard”–while you could never find a library, municipal building, or decent grocery store with an address on that same street.
The James Crown concept is: “Maybe we can make people more comfortable with this separatism, giving the illusion of equality while never offering a heartfelt all men are created equal.”
SAD
Of course, the sad part of this is that it easily slips into our educational system.
We convince our children they are free thinkers when they’re curious about other cultures and their customs.
Simultaneously, as we establish these differences, we don’t adopt any part of them into our own homes, colors and cultures, but instead, admire them from afar.
It is our current derivation of “separate but equal.”
It is an attempt to refuse to accept people as human beings, but instead, categorizing by race, culture and nationality.
The truth of the matter is that no black person in America would last thirty minutes in Africa. Why?
Because they are Americans.
They are accustomed to our style of life.
They enjoy the freedoms.
And likewise, no white person would survive in Europe, picking up where their long-lost relatives were born. Keep in mind, if Europe had been such a great place to live, our families would probably have stayed there.
They came to America for a better chance.
It is sad to see informed, caring people buying into James Crown.
MAD
But what really makes me mad is that the church of Jesus of Nazareth is a huge promoter of this evil game.
There is a white church and a black church in America.
It is heavily segregated and the arrangement hinges on the supposition that “black people like to worship one way” and “white people like to worship another way.”
Jesus said the only way to worship is in spirit and truth.
There is no spirit in being alienated from your brothers and sisters and no truth in believing it has anything to do with the mindset of Jesus.
Whenever anyone tried to separate people in his presence and criticize them for not being just like the disciples, he always replied, “Don’t forbid them. Those who are not against us are for us.”
I am mad to be part of a faith that has a church that is manipulated and has welcomed racism into its operation.
GLAD
Yet not everyone gets hoodwinked, even when there are hoods available for all.
There are folks out there who refuse to be called “African American, German American” or anything other than American.
There are individuals who will not attend a church unless it is integrated and recognizes that any separation is the definition of inequality.
And there is a small awakening in the political arena which contends that a black voter, a white voter, a Hispanic voter and an Asian voter all have one thing in common:
America.
Answer the questions about our country and you answer the need.
James Crown will hang around until we stand up and call him Jim Crow, which is who he really is.
He is not our witness, so we have no intention of protecting him.
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