February is Black History Month - Really?

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.

We were given names that had no meaning, a language that replaced our original tongue, a culture that redefined who we were, and a religion that not only sealed our fate to be condemned by our creator for disobeying His commandment that we have no other god before him, but also changed His name from our original tongue (Hebrew) to one which blasphemes against Him. By introducing us to a “white” savior with a white name, they effectively brought us under submission through religion, which made controlling us without chains feasible.  

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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