From Slavery to Salvation

Slavery was one of the most gruesome acts to mankind. Many people today still struggle from the slavery that took place more than 400 years ago. The master plan of the white Europeans who came and kidnapped Africans was violently cruel, and yet it was just what the "White Men" ordered. They enslaved a people that would be forced to bow down and worship them, be at their beck and call, and not have any way of escaping such conditions. But this manslaughter was more devastating than any can imagine. I say this because the effects are still here today.

Many blacks today struggle psychologically. The psychological behaviors consist of negative beliefs about the world, low self-esteem, and insecurity. It is the thought process of having the weight of the Ren Cen Center in Detroit on your shoulders, and the only way to make it through life is to get it off.

Modern-Day Slavery
Today's prisons are filled with black men, and the "White Man/Government" is building more for them. Let's first talk about the black men in prison. Then we will discuss those who imprisoned them. Black men have been trying to work and live decent lives in spite of the gruesome acts of racism, prejudice, unfair treatment, and wrongful judgment. Nevertheless, white people consider blacks lazy. But how can blacks be lazy when they were the people who built America? Blacks worked in the fields while whites sat on horses or in chairs at home. Yet many whites call blacks lazy. Even today, blacks work in dark, hot hallways in factories while white men sit in big, beautiful, sunny offices watching over them. You can find such activities in factories at Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, where many blacks have been working since the '60s. During this time, blacks lived in ghettos while whites lived in mansions. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and many other black leaders were killed in the '60s.

Blacks were hired by factories to build cars for white owners. Those blacks thought they were achieving something and that whites were giving them a chance to work. But not so. Whites knew that blacks could never make enough money to feed their wives and families. Therefore, for blacks to make a sufficient amount of money, they had to work more overtime. This kept black men from going home to their wives and children. They had no quality time together. When the black man came home from work, he ate and went to bed. This put a psychological burden on black women, who raised children by themselves.

Emotional Destruction
Whites always used this attack on black families during slavery. The Bible says that if you want to turn a family out, you must turn out the strong man. Whites knew they had to keep black men looking weak, irresponsible, and uncaring. This is why they raped black men's wives over and over again and sometimes in front of the black husbands. This put a psychological burden on black women that black men cannot protect them and that white men are more powerful than black men. The psychological burden on black men as they watched their wives being raped was that they were powerless to help them. And the whites did this because if you want to destroy a home, family, or community, you must destroy the men. You must destroy the men in every area of their lives. This is the goal of Satan in his destruction of homes.

Whites enslaved black boys during slavery, causing them to believe they were slaves only and that slavery was all they knew. Therefore, black boys had no hope or inspiration to become anything else. Nevertheless, black factory workers are still underpaid unless they take time away from their families to work overtime. The jobs that blacks were given in factories were also designed to stop them from gaining knowledge and leadership. Blacks who worked in factories did the same job on line. How can putting a window in a car cultivate a human? It can't. There is no room to grow, to develop. The black managers aren't learning anything either. Their job is to keep the blacks who work on line together. During slavery, blacks always picked cotton on line, and there was always a black over them making sure they did just that. And the black who was over them did a good job. But notice the psychological burden: One black feels he is better than other blacks, which creates black-on-black animosity or crime. I will talk more about this in Chapter 7.

A psychological burden is the thought process that you are inferior. It is the belief that there is no reason to live or exist. Therefore, one becomes full of hate, discouragement, and rebellion and dies early or in prison. This is the attitude of many blacks. Few of them have the purpose of life. They become destructive when they lose reason to live and reason to hope, or when they lose confidence in themselves and confidence in life. The purpose of this book is not to cause blacks to battle against whites. On the contrary, it is to give understanding to a people who don't understand, and who have never understood, the work of Satan.