It’s About What the White Man Did To Us: It’s Time to Drop That Narrative

As a people, We have been called to influence and shape cultural norms and values. I mention this because it is vital that we understand prophetically, the mark of God on us. It is not to rule out or over all other ethnicities…It is not to discriminate and set ourselves up as an empire now that we are free from the throngs of slavery, but it is to be a people, who through struggle, which really has served as opportunities to discover God, are to follow Him and imitate Him in the earth, and render to society ongoing contributions which mostly stand as testaments to the working of God with a people…mind you …who have been designed to succeed, overcome, legislate for the betterment of not just our ethnicity, but the world and all of its diverse make-up.

The problem in that statement is that we have somewhere lost vision of ourselves. The impact that it has had on our upward mobility has been and is moving into greater measures of catastrophic proportions namely around Family, Education, Abortion, Economic Development (Jobs, Entrepreneurship, Generational Currency and Wealth transfer) and even our spiritual and physical well-being.

The most common answer, from even our own black brothers and sisters, is that “It’s like this because of what they (the white man) have done to us. I point this out because until we break out of the box of “what They did to us” and many still live in paradigms of “ What they are still doing to us”, we will never be taken seriously in the marketplace, for it is filled with opportunities to prove the content of our character, not extending into another overtime, the playing of the color card and mostly he hand of Victimization, therefore a Victim Mentality.

To much of our inability to shift our minds into being producers and overcomers in society is

that a large number of black people, through their own weakened cognizance and liberal

fueling have taken up space in the seat called Victimization. In his book ZERO VICTIM, James E. Ward Jr, says “Victim mentality is a perceived or conditioned mental tendency to regard yourself as a victim of negative thoughts, words, or actions of others”

He also states that “Victim mentality is such a stronghold that it provokes one to respond as if he or she is actually a victim even when there is inadequate evidence to prove otherwise”. There must be the reconditioning of the minds of Black, White, Asian, Latino, any ethnicity that subscribes to this manner of thinking.

Black people especially, and I see it now more than ever, we must precondition our minds to rise above any act of injustice with a new attitude. We must come into the skill to reverse

victim thinking and embrace the tough things life dishes out without seeing them as “they

doing this to me/us cause we black”. While it may be true in some cases, brother / sister, it

is a defeatist attitude that will always have you warring against flesh and blood and staying in measures of immaturity which will always seek revenge as opposed to the mind of Christ,

when the wiles of the earth raise up against you.

And for the Christian, consider Christ. No one has the right to claim victimhood as much as

Jesus did, but He chose to understand His calling and purpose of entry into the earth, and it will always override any excuses toward or justification of “what happened to me”. It is always easier to look back than get understanding of one’s present or the prophetic picture of where they are headed. However, if there is no grasping of future / purpose ( centered in Christ and His Kingdom) then I will always blame the hardships of my past and hold onto them as a preserver for my inability / capacity/ willingness/ industriousness to apply myself and take hold of what God has for me , which will always be entered into through tribulations. But the tribulation is not the stopping point, they are the gates into processes that reveal our Lord as well as His purposes for even the most horrendous occurrences.

Stop Connecting Skin Color to Success

Life is not about comparing yourself to others, it is about being the best you can be. No man or woman is the Boss of me. When will we consider choices…even our thought processes. What I will believe as truth or what I will I accept / continue to accept as rhetoric. Christ implores us to know the truth and the truth will make you free.

There is a truth God wants African Americans to grasp so that they would know that you have been aligned with success. It’s this----The Kingdom of God/Christianity is a Theology that is centered in Suffering. And if you follow the suffering, you will always see individuals ascending to greater levels when they stay God’s course.

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Well meaning, but unbiblical Blacks and White sympathizers to often and to loud cry out, “Let me fix things for the black folks “. They feel that if they can’t fix us or fix it for us then it puts them out of business. They must find the black victim. It’s why they always play the ethnic card (they call it the race card). Listen…. You will never hear these race baiters speak of ONE RACE –which is proven theologically and scientifically---because Race as they call it ---- is always what they use to stir dissension and division. Make the white people feel bad for what they did to the black man and make the black man mad and to feel like he /she has been victimized.

This is why the African American Council desires to center people in the Kingdom Of God,

which leaves no room for such futile, antagonistic, divisive games and stances, that many -

and some of them are you ---get drug into. It’s a pit…a hole…a grave. Yeas even deception that will take you down into and make you feel like the only way you can get out of where the white man and his systems have put me, which is at the low end of the totem pole, is to fight against them. Well the kingdom will take a man from a pit to the palace….from living in a cave to being a king…. from losing everything to being repaid double …and from the pits of hell to the right hand of God. We must , to overcome victimization, hitch our lives to the Kingdom of God and as Christ is lifted by our lifestyles and truth, draw others to Him and disciple them and their households in the Kingdom--- not racism, wokism, victimization , or even cultural norms / attitudes that are unbiblical , but into the discovery of the nature and character of Christ and His Kingdom, whose love and power overcome all things.

The Time is Now!