I remember
when I was a young girl and Alex Haley’s Roots came on television. I was riveted for several days to the talking
box as I watched the horrors of slavery reenacted before my eyes. The numerous lashes upon the back of Kunta
Kinte as the slave master determined to make him forget his name was forever
seared in my mind. Tears at certain
dramatic points ran hotly down my cheeks and when the series was over, my view
of the world was forever changed. I
realized as a product of those slaves that the world at least the U.S. was
hostile to my kind. I grew up to be
further educated on the travails of being Black because we were still Black back then. My grandfather who fought in World War II,
would tell us how Black servicemen were treated disrespectfully by white
Germans and did not receive a hero’s welcome when they returned home. I read Black magazines that always detailed
the negative statistics of every facet of life that Blacks faced from education
to health problems. It seemed to me that
we had a plethora of issues, but scant solutions and as the years wore on we
still always seemed to be a besieged people despite the advances in Civil
Rights.
As I pondered the curious case of African-Americans, I
begin to want to know why Black people were brought to this country besides the
obvious reason of enslavement. In other
words I wanted to know the “why” behind the “why.” Time moved on and I never received a
satisfactory answer to that question and eventually other things some
political, but mostly spiritual captured my attention. I was gone for a long time from Black issues
and when I left we were in a cultural decline. So what caused the
spotlight to be shined upon African-Americans/Blacks again for me? It is thanks to Shonda Rimes and a show she
produces called Scandal. I had heard
about this new show with their first black leading lady in 40years Kerry
Washington playing a Washington D.C. crisis manager.
I missed the first season when it aired so I thought I would
catch the second season and see what the noise was about. Mind you, when I say I was absent from Black
life that included television, so for me to watch the show was a deviation from my routine. As I watched the show, I couldn’t help but
notice an obvious anti-Christian bias, the same as is manifested in many shows
along with a deliberate dismissal of the main character having a relationship
with a good decent Black man in favor of sexual relations with two white men
one married and the president of the United States and one single. But that isn’t what grabbed my attention as
much as when the show’s two gay white males were allowed to adopt a Black baby
girl. I could not understand why a Black
woman producer and writer would put a Black baby girl to be adopted by two gay
males in lieu of a stable mother and father which would have been in her best
interest.
I wondered why she did
not use a white baby or an Asian one since they are adopted a lot in real
life. She had an opportunity to showcase
a Black baby in a loving Black home as that would have been a positive promotion
for the Black community. To say the
least my spiritual senses went off a lot with that show and further interaction
with the internet community was the visitation once again to the question of “why”
with the Black community as we were now even more so in a cultural decline. The next
series of articles will touch on the “why” behind the “why” and will cover some
history in generalities. I will not be
documenting as I normally would as if I were doing a paper or book, but will make general references to what I
read or heard. Some statements will be
common sense, others opinion, and others not revealed by flesh and blood. One day when it is all said and done, Shonda Rimes will get major credit for helping to provide the answer to the culmination of the age.
What you described viewing on TV, after a long absence, was the continued degradation of the "lost children of the House of Israel". Remember the prophecy at Genesis 15:13, 14 where the Most High said to Abraham: "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance."
ReplyDeleteIn addition to enslavement, segregation, and racism, we must endure the betrayal of our own kind, wittingly or unwittingly. As this wicked system continues to falter, we will be the object of hatred everywhere, especially in the belly of the beast - America.
If you google the question: "When did chattel slavery begin in America?" You will receive an interesting response that reinforces the fact that the Christ has returned, in spirit form, and the end of our period of affliction is almost over. Soon, our prayer: "Thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" will come true.
Shalom dear sister.