This America has raised high a banner—Christian in preference and design--across this land and abroad. From the U.S. American landscape unto nations foreign to the American politics and alien to the American culture have we force marched such nuances as “free” and “freedom”, “just” and “justice” with grave consequences. In full view of God and country and World governing bodies of global concern did U.S. America lay forth her intent...couched in rote promises and unkind practices, at once deceptive and dangerous!
We, as Christians, are spiritually instructed to stand in the power of God. As when relating to the light of Christ, any opportunity to make pilgrimage to the holy land is embraced as readily as the Ten Commandments. The U.S. American Christian, upon retuning home from such, offers up a glowing report of spiritual “oneness” with God, Christ and Holy Spirit—and the beauty of the landscape. This Christian urges a practice of “solidarity” with Christians residing within the region of the holy land. But this same touring Christian—touring from the shores of Lebanon to Israel’s Dead Sea and being thus inspired—fails to make no mention of the Palestinian souls tasked and stressed within the region. If the Christian is to relate to the “light” of Christ, there can be no refuge for the practice of making a body of people “invisible.” Christ himself assured us that the Ten Commandments can be considered as two solely: “Love thy God with all thy heart, mind and soul” and “Love thy neighbor as thyself”(Matt. 22: 36—40 ). A partisan stance against a maligned people is an attitude alien to the love and light of Christ.
And within the midst of this is the Black soul, his long-held promise and reality becoming all the more marginal. The American tribe, the wondrous experiment, saw fit to fracture self and soul. By so doing, she has once again singled out her struggling twelve percent of dark souls to be kept at pole’s length, thus removing this people from the America proper.
Regrettably, percussions from a governing body as such must be labelled as an outright assault. This action fosters ever expanding challenges from private quarters against an already deprived people. And in the case of U.S. America, a new flung mace, spiked with all manner of internal self insecurities and preferential malice, is levied against the hard-won gains deeply rooted in the American dream. One’s view in this modelled trend can only be interpreted as a systematic “expression” to further deny the Black segment full participation of “rights” and “privileges” as guaranteed within the breath of the Constitution.
Presently has U.S. America’s persistence of a corrupted presentation of the dark soul borne fruit--even so, within the industry of self-elected dark souls does the Black population endure such assaults, themselves an instrument in “locking away” the American Dream.
The matter within this presentation of the Black expression in U.S. America is, more than ever, a much needed balance to spurious contentions and incitements levelled against this minority group. It is offered up as recognition of there being a motivating force, newly shore-footed upon set perimeters, with intent on the “sacking” of lawful entitlements. The author indites a treatment firstly, to represent an honest characterization of this marginalized people, recognizing the nuances practiced against this ever maligned dark soul; and secondly, to determine how the practices of Reaganomics--the “trickle down” element of depriving the basics to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”--is detrimental, not just to America’s dark population only, but to the majority of U.S. America’s citizens. It is the hope that these pages will offer a truer rendering--not without blemish--of this collective body newly assailed.