On yesterday we saw a disgusting, evil, and unfathomable take place, because we saw how that there were so many Pro-Trump Supporters (Criminals and Terrorists) storm the Capitol building of the United States Government. The government and anything that is of the government, should never have that type of easy access and be able to be penetrated to the degree that it was yesterday! I mean we saw the hatred, we saw the evil, and we saw so many people being able to just roam free in the Capitol building.
The issue that occurs, the issue that is present, and the issue that continues to live is the issue that when time after time there have been black people that have been attacked, that have killed, and that have been brutalized because of practicing our first amendment rights. Then we see what has happened yesterday, and we see that cops were helping them, taking selfie’s with them, and letting them touch them but if that had been any African-Americans based on the plight that has been thrown into our direction that’s where the frustration comes from!
We are frustrated because we’ve begged, we’ve pleaded, we’ve marched, we’ve sat down in meetings, we’ve sat on panels, we’ve sat with various police officers, and we’ve sat with many governmental officials to discuss and express how we feel! We feel unprotected, we feel unsafe, we feel on the edge, and we feel just completely stressed out because how is it…. that African-Americans don’t get these same liberties, don’t get these same opportunities, and don’t even get this same access because we would have been shot, and what took place at the Capitol could have been one of the most horrific events ever, if it had been black people at the Capitol!
All we have ever asked for was fair treatment, all we have ever asked for was respect, and all we have ever asked for was to be given the same levels of being able to express our freedom! The problem occurs that when we want to express our freedom we are met with violence, we are spoken to like we are still in the 1920s-1960s being cussed out and being told how useless and that we don’t deserve to live, and we are still mocked based on our skin color! We don’t get to have these same privileges like our counterparts, and that’s not fair to us because all we have ever wanted is to be treated fair but that’s not happening!
We have been fighting the same fight since the 1600s, and it has transitioned from fighting Slave Masters to now we are fighting Bosses, Companies, School Districts, Banks, and now the highest office in the world “The President Of The United States”. We have been doing all we can, we have been given hope, and we have been give false love but then at the very moment something occurs that affects our community what once was love has turned into pick a side, and if you stand on the wrong side you’re looked at wrong and mistreated!
This mistreatment still occurs, this unfairness still occurs, and this evilness still occurs! It’s not like we asked to be here but we are, and it’s not fair to us that we can be given basically a death sentence especially by aggressive and belligerent police officers, while we see White people who are assaulting police still get to go home, but a Black person with raided hands gets to go home to Jesus and be placed in a coffin! That’s what is going on, that’s what we are watching, and that’s what we are living with every day that we don’t see the same labels, we don’t speak the same language, and we don’t get the same walk because it has always been about trying to put us in our place!
Our place is in the United States because we are children of God, God has given us every right and liberty to be in this country just like He has given every other race! It’s a shame how we have White evangelicals, and how we have White Christians that can have signs, car tags, car license plates, cross necklaces, teach in Church, preach in Church, go on various mission trips, and do everything else but yet they are quiet now! They are quiet, all of a sudden afraid to speak, and all of a sudden they have become mute until they get around their friends and they’ll call young black people (Hooligans, Thugs, Niggers, and any other vulgar word).
That’s what they do,, and that’s what they call us no matter how gifted we are, no matter how talented we are, no matter if we go to the same preparatory or Christian school, and no matter even if you join Churches or change your voice there is still two sides! It’s a shame how we have to beg Christians to speak up for other Christians, it’s a shame how we have to always blast you and tell you that it’s wrong but you can’t see it! It’s a shame that you are professing Christ, and supporting a President that is racist, sexist, chauvinistic, evil, divisive, and that is completely immoral when the Bible even tells us to flee from it! Where is the fleeing, where is the love, and where is Jesus because you can’t possible love the Lord and still support racism, fascism, and discrimination against Black people!
If you can’t support us stop trying to be like us, if you can’t support us stop wearing Jordan shoes like us, if you can’t support us stop coming to our Churches for votes, if you can’t support us stop listening to our rap music, and if you can’t support us stop trying to join our fraternities, sororities, and our HBCU’S. We see what you do and don’t say, we see how you act around us and your friends, and we see that as much as we shake hands, give dap, give hugs, and show love that there are still areas that have big pieces of divides in them and you don’t think we see and don’t feel the pain. We have felt pain for decades and centuries, we have felt pain from whips, felt pain from laws, felt pain from lynchings, felt pain from knives, felt pain from fists, felt pain from kicks, felt pain from firehouses, felt pain from clubs, felt pain from dogs, felt pain from silence, and felt pain from guns and bullets we have felt so much pain it’s annoying and irritating.
Yet, we have a President and have to watch a imbecile that has caused the worst divide ever in the history of the Country! We have seen a President and supporters elevate him to a point that they would put him ahead of Jesus, we have seen a President be immorally unclean and unfit, and we have seen a President that pushed it way too far but not just him…. anybody that supported him helped to aid this. The GOP helped, the Southern Baptist Convention helped, the Evangelical Church helped, the ones who voted for him helped, and everybody that has lined themselves up with this despicable have helped in this! How you supported, how you cheered, how you celebrated, and how you joined hands with this has caused this!
There is innocent blood on your hands, there are Black families that have lost so many relatives, children, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents they can’t get them back because of racism. Cops that have policed like they were above the law have taken advantage, and not just that but everyone that has sat idly by not saying anything at all has contributed to this level of bigotry, hatred, and murder! Yes they have, and yes they continue to happen and then we see how all we want is to be heard but we have to be heard screaming, have to be heard afraid, and have to be heard with billets entering in our bodies but we see White people being heard and assaulting without any action!
We have seen the tear gas, we have seen the National guard, and we have seen the way you’ve allowed us to be destroyed! But where is the love, where is the compassion, and where is the fight for us! We have heard how we are “Thugs” but not the ones storming the Capitol building that was thuggish behavior! It has to be both ways, and the problem is there is no issue talking down about us but what about them…. I mean you can’t seriously think that those who flip over cars, burn cars, and then destroy various office buildings in the Capitol are not thugs!?!? Are you kidding me…. that was Thug behavior, and that continues to be something that we deal with because stop labeling us but not labeling them!
However, all of this could have been avoided if the GOP would have had the guts to remove the current President! It’s a shame, how many people have allowed one man to bring out so much fear that now we have a full fledge catastrophe on our hands! Why………. because liberties were given, free range was given, no culpability, and that people still stood by while injustice kept being the center of our world! “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere” (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), that’s what we are still seeing and then you wonder why we are shaky, why we don’t trust, and why we have hard time believing what is being told to us!
Anything can be said to us that sounds good, but it’s time to start having some actions! We need some actions, and we have to have some actions we can’t playing around or straddling the fence but we want to be treated fairly! As Dr. King said it so well, in his sermon/speech at Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee he said: “All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper”. Be true to what you said on paper, and show it to us but even though the paper of the constitution has never been true, the paper of the Holy Bible has always been true to us!
God has always been good to us, God has always been great to us, and God has always been fair and just to us! It was the Prophet Amos who spoke it in Amos 5:24 – “But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream”. No matter what has happened, we have seen that the Lord has still kept us! That doesn’t mean we don’t stop marching or protesting, but we also keep on preaching, singing, praying, teaching, and leading! It’s because of the Black Church that we have faith, we have hope, and we have this belief that even in our frustration the Gospel still works and Jesus Christ is still the same yesterday, today, and forever yes He is even with all of this Jesus is still our Savior and our trust to make it!
Even though people have tried to strip our self-esteem, to slash our confidence, and to cut our joy it hasn’t happened because we believe in the Lord! We believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, and we believe that everything is going to be alright no matter what we have had to deal with from the times of Harriet Tubman, Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Olympics, Marches, Protests, and anything else that has affected us we have made it because we have trusted in God! That’s what had brought us back, that is what has kept us, that is what has made us, and that is what will always allow us to stand is because we are trusting in God!
It hurts but God heals, it wounds but God restores, it is unfair but God treats us well, it is troubling but God gives us peace, it is rough but God smooths the road, and it is hard to see but we always look up to the hills from where the Lord always sends help! We know that God always gets the last word, and God will always have the final say so! This is God’s word not mine and certainly not yours, you can’t make us afraid because we have a great security system because the Lord is our shield, the Lord is our rock, the Lord is our fortress, and the Lord is our guide! We will always make it, and we can’t or won’t break because the Lord is with us, and we follow His voice not the ones that try to make us afraid or fearful!
God is still on the throne, and as the Bible tells us in Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning created the Heavens and the Earth. That’s where our hope is, that’s where our confidence is, and that’s where our faith is because we still believe in the power of God! We will be fine, and we won’t stop but we will keep on walking by faith, living by faith, speaking by faith, marching by faith, protesting by faith, and living our lives by faith because the Lord is our everything and our power! We walk and we live by faith! God always will take care of us, and God will always get the last word! We are children of God, that will always have the victory! We walk by faith!
Pastor G. Chris Brown
Romans 8:31,35-39 NASB
[31] What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? [35] Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] Just as it is written, “For YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.” [37] But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. [38] For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Words From GCB 