America is the greatest country in the world because it is, in my belief,
blessed by God as a beacon of individual freedom, a place where anything your
mind can imagine and believe you can achieve.
It promises to any and everyone who is willing to work hard, a fair and
impartial opportunity to achieve what is known world wide as the "American
dream".
This is the country that has people around the world lined up at our Embassies
with the hope and dreams of coming to America to participate in this "American
dream." Many have risked and given their lives in this effort.
Some Americans have achieved the American Dream, but despite the advances of
race relationships since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., led the Civil Rights
Movement in the 1960's, far too many have not.
The largest majority of those who have not, are Blacks and other American
Minorities.
It is clear that the notion and practice of racism in America has stacked the
deck against any reasonable expectation of economic gains and the achievement
of the American Dream against Minorities, making all efforts for success a lot
harder then it should be.
The social-economic system has been programmed for minorities to fail,
educationally, socially and economically. When they do fail, in a capitalistic
system such as ours that worships winners, they are unfairly criticized for
failing and being unable to measure up to the performance standards of the
American society.
Despite the tremendous progress America has made, that is supported by a
majority of Americans, in providing equality and equal opportunities for all
of its citizens, racism, and racist attitudes are still alive and well.
These racist attitudes are serious, and have kept America divided into the two
America's that formal Presidential Candidate John Edwards so frequently spoke
about during his campaign.
The two Americas he was talking about are one White, one Black, one living the
American Dream while the other has been disenfranchised, pushed into social
and economic obscurity, poverty and second class citizenship, and is living
the American Nightmare, in abject poverty in ghettos all around America.
All of this pain is based on racism fueled by false information about race
being determined by the color of your skin which is totally not true.
We as Americans are divided nationally in just about every way imaginable. We
are divided politically, racially, within ourselves, and worst of all we are
divided spiritually and racially within our churches.
For example, most of you probably don't know that the two Americas mentioned
above are never more apparent then on Sunday morning in America, which is
probably the most segregated day of the week, when we are all in church.
Given the fact that segregation in our churches on Sunday are often by choice,
sometime it is dictated by our particular faith and geographical locations of
the churches. However, I think for some, the belief and faith in racial
prejudice is stronger than their faith in God.
The evil attitude of racism is not a respecter of person, all Americans are
affected by its devastating influence in some way, especially if you are Black
or one of the other American Minorities.
The cost of racism in the lives of Blacks, White Americans and other
Minorities affected by its influence is incalculable in terms of human
suffering, the loss of life, opportunities and destroyed dreams.
Racism has been the source of too many tragic human experiences in America's
past and present.
It is time to tell the truth about race, and put an end to this lie and
nightmare forever.
If your skin is Black or the color of any of the other Minorities, you have
probably been told that you are of a different race, and that you are inferior
to Whites.
On the other hand, if you are White you have probably been told that you are
superior to all people who are not White.
You have also been told that the color of your skin determines your race. This
is not true. Racism based on skin color stems from a lie that was perpetrated
more than 389 years ago by greedy unscrupulous slave traders and slave
masters.
These were men who needed and used the lies about race as a justification to
dehumanize and condemn a whole nation of Black people to the horrific,
inhumane status of slavery for life.
They needed a free labor source for the European and American colonies in the
new world. This same lie of race and racism has enslaved a nation of people
today almost as effective as it enslaved a nation of Black people 389 years
ago, that nation today is called America.
The ideology and racist attitudes that have classified people into different
racial categories based on the color of their skin, resulting in unimaginable
social pain and death during the past 389 years of racism in America is a lie.
The racist attitude that supports this ideology of race is a sin in the eyes
of God.
Until we Americans as individuals and a nation seek, find and embrace the real
truth about Race, none of us will ever be truly free.
We will all remain in bondage and a slave to the false ideology of "race based
on skin color" with racism as our slave master.
The question to be answered now is what race are you, really?
The answers to the question of race is there for you to find, you just have to
open your eye, heart and your mind and look for it.
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