WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET THE DEVIL?

                                                             JON HUBBARD


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John Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has written a new book in which he says slavery was “a blessing” for African-Americans, among other questionable statements.

Hubbard, a first term Republican from Jonesboro, Ark., makes a series of racially charged statements in the self-published book, including saying that integration of schools is hurting white students, that African slaves had better lives under slavery than in Africa, that blacks are not contributing to society, and that a situation is developing in the United States which is similar to that of Nazi Germany.

 

The questionable statements in Hubbard’s book, “Letter to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative “were first reported by Arkansas Times and TalkBusiness.net.

 

Regarding slavery, Hubbard wrote:

“…the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise.  The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.”  (Pages 183-89)

On the subject of school integration, Hubbard describe black students as having a “a lack of discipline and ambition,” which he said hurt the entire education system.

Hubbard also tackled immigration and said that Christians in America are in a similar position to that of Germans during Hitler’s rise to power.

…the immigration issue, both legal and illegal… will lead to planned wars or extermination.  Although now this seems to be barbaric and uncivilized, it will at some point become as necessary as eating and breathing.”  (Page 9)

Hubbard declined to comment on the book when contacted by the Huffington Post, saying that he did not have time.

On his campaign website, Hubbard says he will defend Christianity as a state lawmaker.  “And perhaps the most important pledge I can make to the people of District 58, the citizen of Arkansas, and to myself, is to do whatever I can to defend, protect, and preserve our Christian heritage,”  Hubbard says on his website.

“Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, if we as a nation continue to turn away from those Christian principles and values upon which this great nation was founded, we will have truly lost everything worth saving!”

 Welcome to another web edition of Thinking Out Loud, and I'm your host, E. L. Pleasant. Thinking Out Loud, LIKE TALKING TO THE DEVIL!

Now imagine how many white people feel every bit of what Hubbard is saying as if the Lord had given him alone this message to reveal to those that will follow him to the promise land today.  I will be the first to admit that I do.  Just about every word he said is what I have been preaching these past few weeks, short of eating people, is what they see and how they feel when they look at us.  Even those who think they have been accepted into their circle just because they are on their invitation list when a party is given.  These are the same people that put blacks in prison for nineteen years for crimes they didn’t commit.  The same that have held us back with our help and laws created and broken rules to keep us where we are today, because what is good for the whites is not for the blacks and what the whites can do the blacks can’t do.  So what has change?  There are things just for white only and things just for the colors, there just isn’t a sign up but mentally you know without having to question it.  Still the majority after all these years of seeing with their own eyes that these are the same people, because they are the seeds of their ancestors and if cancer can be past between generations, what the hell make you think the same evil that was shown toward Jesus wasn’t past down to them.  Their great, great grand parents were slave owners and those that didn’t have any, it was only because

they couldn’t afford to purchase one, but that don’t mean they didn’t harbor the same hate for us as they do today.  We will still defend them and be the first to say, “All white people are not bad,” when just about every single one of them is in my book.  Ask your self this.  How many do you see marching against oppression and wrongfully arresting blacks?  How many do you see ready and waiting to defend our rights when it comes to fairness, yet you see them protesting for animal cruelty, save the whales, cancer and every and any cause that don’t concern us.  I have and will say once more; change do not mean the same for every one nor do Christianity.  The same pastor who preached that morning was burning down a black person home or lynching them that night.  Don’t be fooled by their smile because that same smile was a frown before you turned around.   For THINKING OUT LOUD, I’m E. L. PLEASANT

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                                                            TANNER COLBY

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

By: Tanner Colby

 

An incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King’s Promised Land. Almost fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, equality is the law of the land, but actual integration is still hard to find. Mammoth battles over forced busing, unfair housing practices, and affirmative action have hardly helped. The bleak fact is that...moreAn incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King’s Promised Land. Almost fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, equality is the law of the land, but actual integration is still hard to find. Mammoth battles over forced busing, unfair housing practices, and affirmative action have hardly helped. The bleak fact is that black people and white people in the United States don’t spend much time together—at work, school, church, or anywhere. Tanner Colby, himself a child of a white-flight Southern suburb, set out to discover why.
Some of My Best Friends Are Black chronicles America’s troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood’s fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish’s forty-year effort to build an integrated church. Writing with a reporter’s nose and a stylist’s flair, Colby uncovers the deep emotional fault lines set trembling by race and takes an unflinching look at an America still struggling to reach the mountaintop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In 2008 few people would ever suspect Tanner Colby had no black friends -- not even Tanner Colby himself. He did, after all, live and work in New York City, socialize among liberal, open-minded people and log several volunteer hours on Barack Obama's first presidential campaign.
But while it was unprecedented, Obama's 2008 election prompted Colby to have a "not-small" realization, as he calls it in his new book "Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America."
"I didn't actually know any black people. I mean, I've met them, have been acquainted with a few in passing, here and there. I know of black people, you could say. But none of my friends were black. I'd never had a black teacher, college professor or workplace mentor. I'd never even been inside a black person's house," he writes.
"What did [Obama's election] really prove except that it's easier to vote for a black man than to sit and have a beer with one," Colby said in an interview with the Seattle Times.
He soon learned that many of those in his circle didn't have any black friends either, a reality that led him to four parts of the U.S. to explore both the successes and failures of racial integration -- Birmingham, Ala., where he attended high school and would examine school segregation; Grand Coteau, La., where generations of his family had been rooted and where he'd examine church segregation; Madison Avenue in New York City, where he had been employed and would seek to understand workplace segregation; and Kansas City, Mo., previously unfamiliar territory, where he'd examine housing segregation.
Following his journey and the release of his book earlier this month, Colby spoke with The Huffington Post about what he uncovered.

 

What did you discover about how these four locales ultimately shaped your circle of friends?
One thing that wouldn't be a surprise to black America, but kind of is news to white people, in that we don't really talk about it on our side of the aisle, is that you have two stories of integration -- one is the overcoming of institutional barriers that structural racism has put in place and then you also have the internal debate within the black community itself of whether or not to integrate. We never really talk about that side of the equation in white America because what black people do or don't do really isn't our concern. Black people are only our concern if they show up in our world.
In all four areas, once you've dealt with the racist institutional barriers, integration really came down to "Do black people want to integrate or not?" Whether it's black ad agencies or black churches, it comes down to [that]. You can take down the barriers, but if blacks choose to stay in their own neighborhoods and institutions, then you haven't changed much. That was new to me

From your research in these four areas, does racial integration really exist?
It does where it does and it doesn't where it doesn't. Segregated schools are really a housing issue at their root. We spend all this political capital on these "integration" programs ... meanwhile nothing was done to fix the housing problem, because Republican or Democrat, whites didn't necessarily want blacks in their neighborhoods. It's much the same with job discrimination in that we've been pursuing all these legal solutions, but so much of workplace discrimination is subtle biases and cultural inclinations that divide us.
 
Do you have any black friends now?
I do -- a couple. But for the opportunity to go out and write this book, I wouldn't have made any new black friends because I'm 37 years old and I'm married and your social universe constricts as you get older.
It took many many months of becoming an educated person about race to the point where black people wanted to be my friend. It's not about me making black friends necessarily; it's about me being a person that black people want to be friends with.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, integration isn't something you do for yourself; it's something you do for your kids. At 30- and 40- something we can be cordial and respect each other, but not get to know each other on an intimate level. It's the responsibility of people our age with children to not pass that on.

 

 Welcome to another web edition of thinking out loud, and I'm your host, E. L. Pleasant. Thinking out loud, Colby Tanner spent a few months trying to get to know blacks and understand us as a race because he spent some time campaigning for a man that has our color but not our demeanor.  This in turn inspired him to write a book about his revelation called, Some of My Best Friends Are Black.” Okay it was a bad joke.  Really it is a bad joke.  The people that he met and spoke with was nothing more than a pet project to him and now he thinks he knows everything that he needs to know when it comes to us.  Like he said in his own words that he didn’t know any blacks, has never considered one of as a friend or cared to when he thought about it.   If you were to ask him before his little adventure into the wild he couldn’t tell you "which" black author that he enjoyed reading, too favorite song or group.  Why?  Because he never had to be bothered with us on a one to one or learned anything about us other than what the media wanted him to know and as they say, “the apple didn’t fall to far from the tree.” Therefore he is 37 years old and it’s like trying to ride a bike for the first time.  If you didn’t learn when you where younger do it really matter now?  So his kids will be taught the same way that he was and that cycle will continue.  If we had our own this and that, many of these problems of yesterday that we are facing would exist and we have no one to blame but ourselves because even as today we continue to allow these things to take place when we don’t equip our young with the knowledge of who they really are, where they come from and what we have done we can do again.  Our blacks are not taught black history, and about all the other great books that are available for their starving minds that want to know their past are greatly related to their future.  Is it because most of them say, leave it in the past it's just too boring or painful?  We on the other hand are force to put up with them and our own that are too ignorant and don’t know why.  For THINKING OUT LOUD, I'M E. L. PLEASANT

 

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WHERE'S THE BLACKS?

AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice toward blacks whether they recognize those feelings or not.

Those views could cost President Barack Obama votes as he tries for re-election, the survey found, though the effects are mitigated by some people's more favorable views of blacks.

Racial prejudice has increased slightly since 2008 whether those feelings were measured using questions that explicitly asked respondents about racist attitudes, or through an experimental test that measured implicit views toward race without asking questions about that topic directly.

In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell.

"As much as we'd hope the impact of race would decline over time ... it appears the impact of anti-black sentiment on voting is about the same as it was four years ago," said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University professor who worked with AP to develop the survey.

Experts on race said they were not surprised by the findings.

"We have this false idea that there is uniformity in progress and that things change in one big step. That is not the way history has worked," said Jelani Cobb, professor of history and director of the Institute for African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut. "When we've seen progress, we've also seen backlash."

Obama has tread cautiously on the subject of race, but many African-Americans have talked openly about perceived antagonism toward them since Obama took office. As evidence, they point to events involving police brutality or cite bumper stickers, cartoons and protest posters that mock the president as a lion or a monkey, or lynch him in effigy.

"Part of it is growing polarization within American society," said Fredrick Harris, director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. "The last Democrat in the White House said we had to have a national discussion about race. There's been total silence around issues of race with this president. But, as you see, whether there is silence, or an elevation of the discussion of race, you still have polarization. It will take more generations, I suspect, before we eliminate these deep feelings."

If you every wonder why, are where, the name came from, "Cracker," well you have been looking at many of them for years and never knew it.  They are the only race that I know of that has skin that crackes which is where the term Cracker comes from and you thought they were talking about something as good as a Ritz.  Now back to the issue at hand, WHERE ARE THE BLACKS?

I don't see a one in the crowd, but then this is the case at every ralley that I have covered during his campaign.  Usually no more than a couple of dozen spreaded across the field to give the appearence we are stronger in numbers, but only at the poles and each time they come up with something new to turn us away.

This is not an unfamiliar seen, but would be consider as petty by the majority of blacks that I converse with.  I’m nit picking, or just looking for a reason to complain about nothing they would say.  These are the people that don’t know when they are being taking for a ride and too smart for their own good, which is why they are always taken advantage of throughout their life.  Afraid to ask questions or to raise their hand out of fear of rocking the both, but they will complain among themselves about what they would say when the time come which has already past.  So here we are four years later still asking ourselves when is there going to be our turn to be the first line to receive a piece of the pie?  Every race that has come to America has prospered to having this and that and everything else.  Where are our hotels, shopping malls, grocery stores and restaurants?  So I wonder what the hell did these black people think Obama was talking about four years ago when he said it was time for a change, because his change, I know for a fact wasn’t what they had in mind.  Every white candidate over the years I have seen going around talking to blacks about voting for him or her and lying about what they are going to do for the black communities or want to see happen.  How many times if ever have you seen Obama speaking to a group of blacks about anything, which is one picture that I yet to run across?  So in other words he haven’t promise to do nothing for us directly because out of his own mouth, “He is not the Blacks President, but of the Nation.”  “If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything every time I’m told.”  It better to be loved for doing something than to be hated for doing nothing, and for THINKING OUT LOUD I’m E. L. PLEASANT.

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FOUR YEARS HAVE COME AND GONE
I''M STILL SINGIN' THE SAME SONG.
A VOTE FOR ME,
WANT SET YOU FREE.
YOU JUST HAVE TO KEEP ON BELIEVIN'
A CHANGE WILL COME,
BUT I'M NOT THE CHOSEN ONE.
HERE IS SOMETHIN' WE ALL CAN SING TOGETHER
IF IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL A LITTLE BETTER...
EVERY BODY, HOLD HANDS IF YOU LIKE,
I JUST DOWN LOADED THIS TO MY IPOD.

Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)

From "Temptations Greatest Hits Volume 2",1970

Lead by Group(Eddie, Dennis, Paul, Melvin, and Otis)

(Eddie)

People movin' out,

People movin' in.

why, because of the color of their skin

run, run, run, but you sho' can't hide

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,

vote for me and I'll set you free

rap on, brother, rap on

(Dennis)

The only person talkin' about love thy brother is the preacher

and it seems nobody's interested in learning

but the teacher

Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration,

Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation

(Group)

Ball of Confusion

(Dennis)

Oh yeah, That's what the world is today,(Group):Hey,hey

(Paul)

The sale of pills are at an all time high

young folks walkin' around with their heads in the sky

the cities aflame in the summertime (Eddie):And, oh

(Group)

The beat goes on

(Dennis)

Evolution, revolution, gun control, the sound of soul

shooting rockets to the moon

kids growing up too soon

politicians say more taxes will solve everything

(Melvin)

And the band played on

(Group)

So, round and around and around we go

where the world's headed, nobody knows

(Dennis)

Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you

just a Ball of Confusion, oh yeah

that's what the world is today, hey

(Eddie)

Fear in the air, tension everywhere

Unemployment's rising fast,

the Beatles' new record's a gas

(Dennis)

And the only safe place to live

is in an Indian Reservation

(Melvin)

And the band played on

(Eddie)

Eve of destruction, tax deduction

(Paul)

City inspectors, bill collectors

(Eddie and Melvin)

Mod clothes in demand

Population out of hand

(Dennis)

Suicide, too many bills

hippies moving to the hills,

people all over the world are shouting "End the War"

(Melvin)

And the band played on

(Dennis)

Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talkin' to you

(Group)

Just a Ball of Confusion,

that's what the world is today, hey

MAN, I FEEL A HOLD A LOT BETTER, HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS?
THANKS FOR HAVING ME AND I'LL SEE YOU AT THE POLLS.

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THIS WEEK ON THINKING OUT LOUD 10-29-12

A CRY FOR HELP

                                                PERCY ROBERT MILLER

Welcome to another web edition of thinking out loud, and I'm your host, E. L. Pleasant. Thinking out loud,

MASTER P.

 

Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967), better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American former rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, and producer. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch Records. followed by Guttar Music Entertainment, Take A Stand Records and No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television.

Miller gained fame in the late 1990s with the success of his group TRU and his fifth album Ice Cream Man, which contained his first single "Mr. Ice Cream Man". In 1997, after the success of one his biggest singles to date, "Make 'Em Say Uhh!," went platinum, Miller grew further in popularity. Then Miller released his second platinum album Ghetto D. Miller also starred in his own street film, mostly based on his life, I'm Bout It.

Business ventures

As founder and CEO of No Limit Entertainment, Miller at one time presided over a business empire that included No Limit Records, Bout It Inc., No Limit Clothing, No Limit Communications, No Limit Films, No Limit Sports Management, P. M. Properties and Advantage Travel. Miller ranked 10th on Forbes magazine's 1998 list of America's 40 highest paid entertainers with an estimated income of $56.5 million. Miller represented former NFL running back Ricky Williams when he was drafted by the New Orleans Saints. Williams' rookie deal has been used in law and business schools as a model for bad contracts. Miller also manages the music, film and television career of his son, rap star Romeo Miller, pop star Forrest Lipton and rap star Gucci Mane

Personal life

Miller has dedicated his time to communities through P. Miller Youth Centers and his P. Miller Food Foundation for the Homeless. On July 28, 2007, Willie W. Herenton, the mayor of Memphis, Tennessee presented Miller with the key to the city.

Miller's financial status has been brought to light as the rapper and his ex-wife are engaged in a heated battle over child support. Though his net worth was once estimated at $600,000,000, he has been ordered to pay just $271 a month in child support for his four minor children. He has nine children in all. Singer/actress Cymphonique Miller is his daughter and rapper/singer/actor Romeo Miller is his son. Rappers Silkk the Shocker and C-Murder are his brothers.


 

Once the master of his game, that he coined the phrase Master P.  The master of his game has now fallen to become the slave of it.  Hustling to become somebody to end right back where he started from, a no body, that only a title remain which he is still trying to cling too; like those old glory days that long gone and he just don’t know it.  A 45 years old man now screaming, “We’re out chere,” a long with poor grammar and a group of fools in training, yes world, we all should be hiding in fear.

As one gets older it is thought that you also become wiser with age.  With nine kids of his own you would think he would know a great deal about responsibility and sacrifice.  Yet it would appear he lost that along with his self respect reaching for what he thought was the top.  Surely this is not the legacy he intended to leave his children with an image of him screaming about killing his own race or any other race for that matter and for over what? Not even Romeo has stooped that low to the ground and he is much younger than his father.

It is sad to say, that all this time he thought he’s been handling his business while all the time he’s been working for the white man destroying the minds of our people, the very frabric of each and every community in which our youth reside in barely being held together today because of these kind of images that you and other portray as this is what life has to offer them.  Reckless, just reckless, like giving a two year old a loaded gun to play with in place of a rattle, these are the kind of images that are just as bad as crack, because tthey both target the mind.  You don’t want your child strung out on drugs, but then you are the drug dealer, now how crazy is that?  You don’t want your child to do as you, but as you say. Yet they learn from  the example we set as resposible parents that try to lead them in the right direction.  Therefore as an adult and parent, my I make a suggestion(s):  Stop wasting your time and give them something positive, that will feed their minds.  Stress education as the key to true success and if you can’t do that, then just sit down and read a Final Call in between making out your bucket list.  For THINKING OUT LOUD, I’m  E. L. PLEASNT

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WHERE'S THE HOOD AT?

Microsoft Corp. is garnering criticism for a patent it filed for an "Avoid Ghetto" GPS app. The app, which links up with your GPS or smartphone, immediately notifies you when you are nearing a neighborhood with high crime statistics.
For example, if you are driving through a safe neighborhood (statistically speaking) of Brooklyn, N.Y., and are nearing Brownsville, the app will most likely alert you. The same applies if you are driving somewhere near Southeast D.C.
The app has its share of critics, including Tammy Chin, author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism, who told AOL that the app could be considered racist. "It's pretty appalling. Of course, an application like this defines crime pretty narrowly, since all crimes happen in all kinds of neighborhoods. I can't imagine that there aren't perpetrators of domestic violence, petty and insignificant drug possession, fraud, theft and rape in every area."
The app is absolutely ludicrous, and Microsoft should be ashamed of itself. To echo Chin's sentiment, why don't we have an app for young black males who are accosted by the police in New York City every day (and other areas across the country) that allows them to map blocks where police pull over or stop people most frequently? Additionally, what happens if someone does use this technology and goes through a neighborhood that's supposedly safe and gets robbed? Does that mean he or she can sue the company?
Word of advice, Microsoft: Scrap this project now because headaches can arise from it in so many different forms.

 

NOTHING BUT THE FACTS

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

 

The African American experience has produced a most resilient and magnanimous people.  African Americans have managed to preserve family, retain a sense of culture, safeguard a strong spiritual integrity, and maintain their humanity in an all-too-often inhumane environment.

 

From the beginning of American chattel slavery in 1619 until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured and raped.  They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual abuse.  Given such history, Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary asks, "Isn't it likely that many slaves were severely traumatized?  Furthermore, did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?"

 

Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Blacks Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage and convict leasing, and domestic terrorism and lynching.  Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, result in yet unmeasured injury.

 

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome:  America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, answers these questions and more.  Dr. Leary encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions and behaviors through the lens of history and so gain a greater understanding of the impact centuries of slavery and oppression has had on African Americans.  "With this understanding we can explore the role our history has played in the evolution of our thoughts, feelings and behaviors, both negative and positive.  This exploration will help lay the foundation necessary to insure our well-being and the sustained health of future generations."

 



THE ORIGINAL AFRICAN HERITAGE STUDY BIBLE

 

MATTHEW 27:  When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away; and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.  11 And Jesus stood before the governor:  and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Jews?  And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.  12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?  14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.  15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.  16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.  17 Therefore when they were gather together, Pilate said unto them, Whom shall ye that I release unto you?  Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?  18 For he knew out of envy they had delivered him.  19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, have thou nothing to do with that just man:  for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. 20 But the chief priest and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.  21 The governor answered and said unto them, whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you?  They said, Barabbas.  22 Pilate saith unto them, what shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?  They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.  24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.  25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on use, and our children.  26 Then release he Barabbas unto them: and when he scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

He never said that he was the king of the Jews nor was he ever mention as being one. If he were their king, why didn’t they put up fight for him? “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.  Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us”.

If Jesus was of the Holy Ghost, once again I ask, how would that make him a Jew?  When the Angel said he will save his people he/she were talking about his creation meaning every living soul.  He didn’t come for just the Jews sake, but for those that had changed their sinful ways because of him and chose to following his path to ever lasting life.  Now we have people fighting so call holy wars, but no one lifted a finger in his behalf.

Hate:  They hated this man for his color more than his preaching or his healing, so much so that they would curse their unborn child and the generation to come; that which you and I have had to deal with today.  If you ever wanted to know why we are hated when we have done nothing to our oppressors, this is where it started.  Now I have told you….  For THINKING OUT LOUD, I'm E. L. PLEASANT

 

 

 

 

                                     CHARLES MAJOR

Author: Become a Mongul - IamCharlesMajor.com

 

"Your Present situation is the residual  of your past thoughts and actions.

Think different 2day & have what you want 2morrow!"

 

  

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