Broken Spirits/ Shattered Vessels/ Shards of Clay

"We, as African American descendants of the ancient African/Edenic nation of Israel, having been dispersed into the four-corners of the earth: we--of this Diaspora, being in the post-bellum period--are a broken people indeed, and in the worst kind of way. Yes, the State of Black America is indeed severely broken. We, the progeny of that ancient people who consistently put God to the test, traverse this land as Broken Spirits, trying desperately to find ourselves and to understand the reasons for our extreme brokenness and our prolonged stint of racial oppression in this land. This is the land of our forefathers: erected by the blood, sweat, and the many, many, many tears from the coarse netting of the slave master's whip across their literally broken backs. We exist now in this land as mere fragments of the psyche that that era of brutal slavery left behind. The reason for this is that we bear the residual effects of the "curse" of habitual disobedience of that ancient people: a "curse" that only we, their descendants, can break by drastically changing our habitually rebellious course of persistent disobedience to one of integrity and obedient loyalty to our God and to one another. For we have lost both of these precious commodities in the muddy waters of the psyche--lost somewhere offshore of the 'Middle Passage' of our experiences in this "Land of the unfree", especially once we got past the era of Civil Rights and the loss of our stalwart 'leaders'. The saddest part of this travesty is that 'mom and dad' [Mother Africa's protection and our brave 'leaders'/forerunners] are gone now: vanished along with yesterday into the darkness of days gone by: swifter, as it seems now, than a "weaver's shuttle"--and there is no one left to show us the way 'home'. Yes, they knew the way: they just refused to walk in it. But to look at the condition of their progeny living in this "time of the end" (of Biblical prophecy)--we, ourselves, from all appearances those "secrets" seem to have died with them--or did they? Could there be a way; some secret passage, perhaps, by which we could find our way back to God, and to one another [Umojah!]? Could Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, as much as he loved them (despite their constant rebellion) have let them perish into the darkness of the distant past without leaving us a road map? Could there be a chart, perhaps--hidden somewhere--waiting for us of this last generation to unearth, whereby we can find our way...groping as we come..back into the loving graces of the God of..." "...The slavery...of the past is not left to the past. As surely as the 'death angel' crept into the camp of the Egyptians, snuffing out their 'firstborn', just as surely has racism and the 'Spirit of death' overshadowed Africa's children in America--bringing with it a certain 'Death of the Psyche', resulting in twenty-first century brokenness, greatly crippling God's Firstborn with psychological amnesia and inundated with apathy and indifference. At the outset of this chapter, the scriptural text at Hosea cites God as saying... '...[Israel, God's beloved people] doesn't know or even care that it was I who raised him. I led Israel with my ropes of love...' And again, he reiterates this same sentiment at Hosea 4:6a: 'My people are destroyed because they don't know me...' As this scene continues to unfold from the ancient biblical past onto the stage of this twenty-first century, why does God say this, and what bearing does it have on the 'failure of the firstborn'? What is this 'knowledge' that they lack? And why is it lacking? To answer this, in part, and to set the stage for what is to follow, we go to the Introduction to the Original African Heritage Edition Bible, which reads: 'The origin of this people [Africans: the Original people of the earth: God's Firstborn] has been shrouded in the mysteries of the various versions and translations of the Bible (especially the King James Version) for many years. This was due, in part, to the misinterpretation of those who rendered the original translations from Hebrew and Greek into Latin, English, and other languages. However, a large portion of the confusion stems from deliberate Eurocentric attempts to conceal what today would be called the racial and/or ethnic identity of the people of the Bible [i.e. God's 'Firstborn'--mine, Hadassadajah's]. 'The Struggle To Be Recognized This discrimination has been long-lived. In the period between the fourth century and the enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europe recast the entire Bible into a saga of European people. And their interpretations have been accepted as fact by the Western world. The result has been the creation of a world in which too many blacks themselves have become uncomfortable with images of biblical characters as blacks.' What has this 'lack of accurate knowledge' concerning the biblical heritage of Blacks produced? And how far has the tentacles of its consequences reached? From the ancient distant past all the way 'down here' where these psychologically disastrous effects have washed up upon the shores of this 21st Century. On page 117 of this same Bible, the latter portion of paragraph two reads: '...The stranger visiting this land [of America] and going among its coloured inhabitants and reading their newspapers, still hears the wail of slavery. The wail of physical suffering [during the brutality of slavery] has been exchanged for the groans of an intellectual, social, and ecclesiastical ostracism' [emphasis added].' Tragedy of this magnitude has come about primarily because of the Failure of God's Firstborn to dispense the accurate knowledge of the truth of the glorious biblical heritage of these African/Edenites in their thousands of churches across the globe. And for this reason, yes, Africa's children upon these shores of their captivity --even here in this twenty-first century-- still "carries the pain of slavery in their genetic code". Because of the Failure of God's Firstborn to halt the wheels of indoctrination (in its infancy stages --as Blacks were growing up in their homes plastered with images of a white Jesus with long fine brownish/blond hair; blue/green eyes, and Caucasian characteristics: all of the apostles, white angels, white shepherds, white prophets, etc; --seeing biblical narratives and movies around holiday time consisting of only whites or Anglo-Saxons ...thus sealing these lasting imprints into the psyche...) through researched biblical knowledge, the 'selective' pre-conceived intense and prolonged conditioning (of all races) through European indoctrination has been able to erase all traces of any black biblical presence from the psyche. This has had a most profound and detrimental effect upon the Black psyche above all others. The effect of this intense conditioning has been so profound, in fact, that it has erected, overtime, a barrier, an actual "FORCE FIELD" that forbids entry to any newly-revealed, researched, accurate, factual biblical knowledge to the contrary."