So I have heard there is a new roots movie. Sorry to say I have only seen bits of the old. So I have never really seen it.
The old roots came out when I was in grade school. I remember my classmates talking about it but my mother refused to watch it, so I never got a chance to see it.
I also grew up in Jamaica and my experience of what I learned in school while being in Jamaica was totally different from what I learned in the United States. As a child I remember that we prayed and sang the Jamaican anthem each morning. At lunch since some students went home for lunch we also prayed and we prayed before school let out in the evening. Jamaica honors Marcus Garvey just as America honors Martin Luther King. While living and going to school in Jamaica we as children were taught to be proud of our country and who we were as a people.
Coming to America and going to school here, was a totally different experience. The first school I went to was predominantly black teachers and students. It was ok. I learned the basics, reading, writing and arithmetic. After my first year that school was closed for good. I now had to be bussed across town to a new school. At the new school I learned about Eric the red, Christopher Columbus and slavery. It was taught in such a way that it made me angry. In my mind, my descendants were never slaves. After the slave routine here comes the evolution story. We descended from apes and there was always a picture of a black gorilla being used to say this is where we came from. Somehow that made me have a dislike for my teacher. That experience was actually my first indoctrination to racism at its finest. ( Let me get you while you are young because I don't care who you think you are) . It's like a brainwash experience. Whites sailed and ventured the world but you came from slavery. You were beaten, raped, murdered, sold, stolen and as of right now you are still a slave because others and whites will not ever see you as anything else because we will never let you forget.
I am glad I never saw roots. I don't need roots to teach me who I am or who my ancestors were. The Egyptian tombs, mummy's, pyramids and hieroglyphics are enough. If those are not enough, the story of the moors conquering Spain, the black kings and queens which ruled Africa and traded with the Arabs also gives me a good insight to my ancestors.
These kinds of movies teach hatred. They sow self hatred and hatred towards those who enslaved blacks.
To anyone who believes that blacks can only be slaves and negroes let me just say this. After reading the book of Deuteronomy I have come to this understanding, ( an understanding I have never heard a minister talk about. As if to say we can't touch that subject. The people are blind and they must stay blind. ) God laid down his laws and guidelines for the Israelites. He gave them blessings and curses. Those curses only happened to those people who were shipped throughout the ends of the earth to a people strong and greater that them. Far from their homeland. You will long to see it but you will not return. You will watch your children sold In front of you. You will have chains around your neck and chains around your feet. So yes blacks are cursed, not for the color of their skin or their kinky hair but for being disobedient to the most high God. It is very sad when a person does not know his heritage yet the bible tells us who we are. We seem to be the only people who don't believe or see it. We are so busy doing wrong and trying to fit in where we do not belong. The only reason we do not belong is because we belong to God. We are his but we act as though we do not care. Come out from among them, separate yourselves. God's people are suppose to be holy. Once we return to the most high , not with lip service but by hearkening to his voice . 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven , and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Deuteronomy 28:68. Gives all indication that slavery from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean are the original Israelites.
So I write this to say. I am not a slave nor will I be any ones slave in the future. I will not take part of this systemic system to continually enslave and lie to me be it mentally or physically. I serve a God who says that we are his sons and daughters. My father is a great King and he rules this world and everything in it. One day all wickedness will end. PEACE
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