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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570298" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reeducating by any means necessary to achieve the revitalization and realignment of the black soul</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consorting with the enemy<br>Needless to say it is painful<br>To speak of some blacks people as the enemy<br>But it is necessary to dispel<br>The well meaning harm within the good wishes<br> And good book<br>Of the church<br>Each Sunday the bells rings out<br>Calling the faithful dressed in their finest<br>With hats tipped to the side they strive<br>With a pride of self that belies<br>The dream deferred.<br>The young Richard Allen and Absalom Jones<br>Were not misguided in so far<br>As their shared vision was authentic and so on<br>July 17,1794 a new kind of bondage<br>Of oppression was forged into the chain of slavery<br>And worship to be used in the service of colonization <br>Of the black mind and spirituality, <br>Francis Scott Key who wrote<br>The Star Spangled Banner is spoken of<br>favorably as a foundering father of the American spirit.<br>And if the American spirit is/or was<br>At once racistly bent on the subjugation<br>Of black self knowledge to the long<br>Held belief in white supremacy<br>Then it is worth knowing that Key’s role<br>Was deliberate toward maintaining<br>His and others beliefs in<br>Making sure that white supremacy was<br>The all pervading rule by which the country<br>Was to be guided by.<br>Key was by all accounts a deeply religions<br>Man and lay reader in the Episcopal Church<br>And at one time had considered becoming a<br>Clergyman but apparently his devotion to the church<br>And an all knowing God was not strong enough<br>To overcome his beliefs in the justness of<br>Of slavery and with the laws on his side by his foot<br>He held down a race of people dark of skin<br>And by his action gained the respect of his peers.<br>It has been said by some that the black church<br>Is the most perverse institution within the<br>Black community. <br>I will add that if the<br>Preacher was able or indeed willing to<br>Take off his collar he will find it as heavy<br>As a chin around his neck<br>It is the black women and not the male preachers<br>Who are the back bones of the black church<br>The preacher would do best<br>To come down from his pulpit and go out<br>Into the back black streets of East St. Louis<br>And take some black male youths under his wings<br>To reeducate them to what is at stake<br>Not only for them but our race as a whole<br>It is no longer necessary to become Baptists, <br>Or Methodists or episcopes because the whites<br>Have taught us that it is necessary for the<br>Salvation of our black souls as if the white way of<br>Knowledge was the one true way by which<br>Knowledge can be attained.<br>Black preachers seem not to know that the black way<br>Of knowledge is just as worthy as any that the small mind<br>Of man can conceive of if not more so then any others<br>After all all human knowledge sprung from the first man<br>And woman dark of skin in the cradle of Africa.<br>The belief in one God that is at the foundation<br>Of the Christian faith is an Africa concept.<br>We still say Aman today and RA sings ever bright in our lives.<br>Our Christian slave ancestors were well meaning<br>But it is debatable as to rather<br>The first priority of the church is to<br>Witness to Jesus Christ<br>At the expense of speaking out against<br>Governmental discrimination or any other<br>Type of discrimination<br>And people like Creflo Dollar<br>Sees only dollar signs to fuel his<br>Atlanta-based church<br>The troubling trend toward individualism<br>And materialism as being necessary<br>Means to attain prosperity and keep up with<br>Tithing while poverty, homicides, <br>Illiteracy and child abuse are<br>Perpetrated against us most times by us<br>While the church chose to sing not we shall overcome<br>But the Star Spangle Banner<br>While the nefarious front man as preacher<br>Believe that he needs to preach<br> The need of don’t ask, don’t tell<br>Over the truth of the streets.<br>Blacks continual to make up 40<br>percent of the prison populations<br>I have a nephew tangled up<br>in the judicial system<br>It is not just enough to say that this is<br>The way of this capitalistic culture.<br>The black church has turned inward<br>As if to gather the wagons<br>Solely in perpetuating inself.<br>So why do I still consort with the enemy<br>Because I will be heard above the<br>Sermon that brings hallujalls<br>In a fault ring ringing out all over St. Louis<br>Calling the dire believers of a way of<br>Spiritual life that eats at the soul<br>Of black folks because I am not blinded<br>By the light of the cross and I will not kiss the foot<br>Of any Pope nor will I get down on my knees<br>And worship the image of a white God<br>Who have lost his black skin in the white washing<br>Of the black mind.<br>So why do I still consort with the enemy<br>I hold out hope that in time blacks will<br>Think that there is for them to worship<br>A black God divine who look like us and smells<br>Like us and teachers us the black way of knowledge</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+E.+Patton">David E. 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Needless to say it is painful
To speak of some blacks people as the enemy
But it is necessary to dispel
The well meaning harm within the good wishes
 And good book
Of the church
Each Sunday the bells rings out
Calling the..."></div>
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