It seems to me that every year I
hear less and less about Black History month. In fact had it not been for recent conversation I had with a couple of friends, I would have forgotten about Black
History Month altogether. They both mentioned to me that they have not heard
much mention of Black History Month so far this year. One pointed out that unlike the past, her
local library has yet to put up any display honoring people of color. Seems like much of the hoopla of the occasion has died down. I
remember in years past I couldn’t turn on my television or surf the net during
the month of February without being bombarded by countless ads or posts
featuring different people of color in honor of Black History month. However,
so far this year, I have only seen two ads on tv; one during a Celebrity Big
Brother episode where comedian, talk show host Sheryl Underwood spoke about Thurgood Marshall
being barred from something because he was black. The other was an AT&T ad featuring
different everyday people of color while a pre-recorded audio of Muhammad Ali's "I'm great" played in the background. With the month
half-way over, I’ve yet to see a single post on my social media news feed that
mentions Black History Month.
While I have never been
comfortable with our history being condensed/reduced to one month a year or
that there was even a need for a designated month to honor our people who made
a difference historically in this country, I was contented that at least we
were getting some sort of recognition. That was before I had a full
understanding of just how much of our history has been edited, omitted,
re-written, or just plain falsified. Before I had the urge to research my
ancestral history I was convinced that it began with slavery because that was
what all the history books projected. You know the story - that our ancestors were
brought over from Africa in ships and forced to work on plantations, etc. If
you are of West Indian descent your history books may have included that your island
was discovered by Christopher Columbus and that he encountered Indian natives.
How can you discover a place if it is already inhabited? The same is true of
America. When the first settlers came to America, it was not uninhabited. But
that’s another story for another time.
The more I researched my ancestral
history, I discovered so many fascinating facts. Like did you know that people
of color existed back in biblical days? Yep,
people of color are decedents of the children of Israel, you know those people
who were enslaved in Egypt and then lead out of Egypt by Moses or Moshe. In
fact, if you took the time to research it you will discover, both from a
biblical and/or a historical prospective, that we are the people spoken about in
Deuteronomy 28. No other race can lay claim to that because the details won’t
fit. Not even present day Jews can make that claim as they are one of the wealthiest
races in the world and can trace their history of who they really are, Ashkenazi Jews,
back to being descendants of Khazars. To this day we are still the only race in
the world who don’t know who we really are or whose we are. Oh and did you know
that the Messiah and his disciples were not white but actually of dark complexion?
Early paintings depicted their true pigmentation, however as with everything
else, they were white washed to depict the same pigmentation of our oppressors.
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While it can be argued that there
is only one race – the human race - the collection of words used to describe us
as a people/race is vast to say the least (including some derogatory terminologies which I will not mention here), i.e., Colored, Negros, Blacks, People
of Color, and of course African-Americans. None of which constitutes a race per
se, especially the latter which is actually a combination of two nationalities and/or continents – Africa,
which was the name given to the continent of Akebu-Lan by the Romans, and
America, which is the revision name given to the new continent after cartographer
Martin Waldseemuller discovered his mistake of thinking the new world was discovered
by Amerigo Vespucci. Surprisingly to me,
a discovery in the library at Harvard University in 2015 points out that the earliest
documented form of the term “African American” was published back in 1782 in a
book entitled “Sermon on the Capture of Lord Corn Wallis” which was written by “an
African American”. However most of us may remember that it was
Jessie Jackson who encouraged us as a people to adopt the terminology in 1988.
Truth is, while it is fascinating
to learn about all the wonderful contribution people of our race have made to
modern society as we know it, it is just as important, if not more so, that we
also know about the ones who existed before slavery. We come from a rich
history of regal people who educated, built, and contributed to other civilizations. Our
history and artifacts were stolen by other civilization who exiled us out of
our home land into Akebu-Lan for over 1600 years where we were enslaved and
eventually sold/traded to the Europeans who brought us to America in ships,
just as it was written in the scriptures.
We were forced to leave behind everything that made us unique and a set
apart people, ie, artifacts, language, literature, history. Once here, we were stripped
of our identity and treated inhumanely, you know the story. As the years passed
our history was forgotten and future generations would have no clue of who they
are or whose they are.
As noted in scripture, we
continue to be cursed because we refuse to repent and be reconciled back to
Heavenly Father, Yahuah Elohim. Mostly
because we don’t remember who we are and have accepted what we have been given/told as the truth. Scripture warns us to beware of false doctrine/prophets. What we
don’t realize is that “Christianity” as we know it today is the false doctrine.
We have been conditioned to pray to a “white” messiah that we call by a name
that did not exist back in biblical days. In fact the Creator’s name has been
removed from modern day scripture to ensure we stay ignorant of the consequences. Pick up any version of the scriptures before the year 1611, I challenge you to find the name "Jehovah" or "Jesus" in it. You won't because those are not the name of the Creator or the Messiah. Truth is, we are no better off today than when we were first brought to this country. Sure we can say we are not physically enslaved anymore, but there is no doubt that we are mentally enslaved. Bob Marley said it best when he sang:
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look? Ooh
Some say it's just a part of it, We've got to fulfill the Book
Over three hundred years of not
knowing who we are has forced us to build up other race’s countries and nations
physically and economically. We exchange our time for money and turn right around
and give it back by buying things they have conditioned us to believe we need. In
essence, as a people, we have nothing of our own despite the fact that we literally work like slaves. We are still very dependent on the very people who captured us,
beat us, enslaved us, kill(ed) us, and continue to devalue us. So while no other
race have a specific month dedicated to honor them, and other races have been
paid reparation for wrongs done against their ancestors, we seem to be
contented to be pacified by one national holiday a year to honor one of our
fallen leaders and one month a year to honor us as a people. How sad. I’m Just
Saying. I got issues – what about you?
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