I appeal to you therefore, brother, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind., that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I bid everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but think sober judgement, each according to the mesure of faith which God has assigned him. For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving, he who teaches, in his teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation he who gives aid, with zeal; he who does act of mercy, with cheerfulness.
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? For from him, and through him, and to him are all things.
When Jesus came into the district of Caeasarcea Philippi, he asked his disciples, Who do men say the son of man is? And they said Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the key's to the Kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Jesus began to show his disciplesthat he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him and began to rebuke him saying, "God forbid, Lord! this shall never happen to you." But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men." Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoeverwould save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For whatwill is profit a man, if he gainsthe whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? fFor the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done."
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
History of Slavery
You know about Rosa Parks you know everything you need to know or ever want to know about the true evels of slavory. You know it's one of the worst scars on a Republican, you know it still tares us apart. You know all of those things are true and you know there right. When it comes to civil rights it's a cake. I want to tell you about this cake and how the cake is made. Our country has done some horrific things. Do you know that this cake is pretty much perfect, but is that true? What's true? You have to cut the cake and take the piece out and look at it to see all the layers. All the layers of the past to see how this was made up. What layer is good and what layer is bad and what are the ingredience so we'll know in the future so things won't happen like that again.
I have four hundred years to cover so lets get started. It's like Thomas Jefferson said if a nation expects to be ignerant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. You can not take my word for it, you can't take the word of posts, you can't take the word of text books, you must do your own homework. This is your country, this is your history! Read, and read people who disagree with each other, you find the trueth. It's Imperative for the repulic.
Manifest Destiny is a perversion of divine providence. And the four major forces Commerce, Religion, Government, and Science there all good but when they collude there is trouble. All of these forces turned against the native Americans, our founders liked the native Americans. But then we needed land. The government needed to expand. We needed to make money on it. Religion was telling people well they're savages. They're not quite as whole. Same thing with science they colluded all for the goal for making money or for the best for the collective. Well I want to talk about slavery in the 17th century. We all learned about slavery in school we all know the horrors of it. The fact that Whites enslaved blacks builds on the idea that all men are created equal is beyond hypocritical we know that. So how did it happen? We know it's a national Tragedy. We also know tthe treasure that is Abraham Lincon. We know how it ended with the cival war. But does anyone know how slavery started? We know the ending, how did it start? I mean nobody came in and said hey everybody lets have slaves. It doesn't sound like that could happen. The fact is that it started small and it became one of the worst scars in American history and global history. In the early colonial America it wasn't slavery, it was Indentured servitude.
What is Indentured servitude? Well indentured servitude isn't the same as slavery. There's some important differences here. It shares many of the same things we have today with illegal immigration. I believe that illegal immigration is modern day slavery, but thats not quite right. Illegal immigration the way it's happening now is more like indentured servitude. If your an illegal working in the New York you'll barely get paid enough to rent a bed not a room a bed. For 8 hours and someone else is going to rent that same bed for the next 8 hours. You have enough time to go sleep in it and go back to the mercy of your employer. You don't have any real rights. The governments not going to help you. No one's going to help you because you don't exist, you're not in the records. In theory indentured servitude is like that but indentured servitude promised a light at the end of the tunnel. Because after your time with the master was up you got what were called at the time freedom dues.
That was usually a little bit of land and a gun. the most important part of freedom dues was freedom. Indentured servitude was a common practice at the time around the globe at the time. Everybody was using this Indentured servitude. It was like slavery but not quite and it's not an American problem it's a human problem that happened all over the world. Now there were criterion on witch people were used as early indentured servants.
But here's what's not taught if I asked was it a white man or a black man as the master and the indentured servant? You would say, well the criteria at the beginning was not based on color it was based on creed. it was non-Christians that were used as servants. Collonists didn't identify them selves as white, they identified them selves as Christians. Whites, Blacks, you name it they were all used for this earliest form of slavery. If an indentured servant broke a contract they got the same punishment regardless of color. If an indentured servant just said I exept Jesus they could get out. Now this is bad but this isn't slavery so how did it happen?
Massachusetts was the first state to legalize and recognize slavery other states soon followed. Why? because it was profitable. Like Verginia. Now do you know who owned the first state sponsored slave in America? His name was Anthony Johnson. He was a black man. Can you believe that? How did a Black man own a Black man? before he was an owner he was an indentured servant. He worked in Verginia in 1621 his name was Antonio. It was recorded in a census it just recorded his first name and his race. He wasn't a slave he was an indentured servant. He worked on a Tabacco farm and his master gave him own plot of land and he prefected his skills on that plot of land for 15 years on that plantation. And during that time he married and had four children. After that time Antonio negotiated and bought his own freedom and thats when he dicided he was going to become an owner. Then he changed his name to Anthony Johnson and in 1640 Anthony and his wife bought a plot of land and hired not slaves because there weren't slaves he hired indentured servants.
Now that same year in another place there was a court case that involved three indentured servants who had excaped there were three. Two white guy's and a black guy. Now these guy's ran away they exapt and they were caught. Two of them had their servatude extended for four years and the third one had his servatude extended for life. Can you guess witch one got it extended for life? Witch means you can't buy your freedom so you become a slave. It was the Black man. Well why did the two white guy's get only four years and the black guy got life? The oldest story of time, this was the beginning of slavery. He was black, and this was the beginning of the real nightmare that took a long time to get out.
Now Anthony had his indentured servant his name was John Caster. Well John Caster who was also black complained to a court that Anthony unfarely extended his terms of servatude. the court emancipated John Caster and said your a free man you can go. But Anthony went back and tried to convince the court that Caster belonged to him and should be his for life. He won the court case believe it or not and Caster became a slave. I tell you this story to show you that its a human problem it's not a white problem or a black problem man will enslave man any time when he can. This is a warning sign it's happened through out history it's one of the layers of cake. Wait a minute wait a minute any man can do it. Do you know where the word slave came from?
The slavic people in central Europe. It didn't become race until much much later. Now this is horrible but it's about to get really bad. We all ways have to come back to the formula. When they collude your introuble., commerce, government, religion, and science. We have to go to Tabacco. Tabacco worth alot of money. It was a skill set that the english were familiar with but they weren't good at it at all. The people that were good at it were the indentured servants. They spent there whole time doing it and they had a chance to buy their way out if they could do it well. Yet the collonies depended on this just like they tell us now we're dependant on Illegal immagrants. I mean if they can make your tabacco cheaper or your salad cheaper there will allways be somebody that will take advantage of it.
So at the time the collonies were struggling economacally so the pressure started to mount to produce more tabacco and more tabacco. There's a crisis sound familiar. At the same time the collonies argued that freeing the indenured servants was causing a problem. It was a threat to property owners. They said that it was to costly. They couldn't keep up. These guy's would leave then commerce would be hurt because there was so much turn over and they had to spend to much money. Witch made tabacco more costly witch hurt the economy. So restrictions started being placed because commerce was hurt so government started putting more restrictions on. They placed restrictions on owning land and that caused the indentured servants to become upset because wait a minute thats our way out. Well these guy's started taking to the streets and setting fires. Of course in stead of moving the collonies to regect the horrific nature of servatude and move tored freedom because peoples dallars were at stake they went the other way. You know whats strange here I think this was our first tea party. The master was taking to much from the everyday people. It was the first time we saw the attitude of manifest destiny as well. If they could do anything they could take the land from the servants.
In 1662 Virinia took one of the last steps on the road to true evil. They in acted a law that said all children born into the colony to a slave mother would be enslaved. So now not only were you a slave but that slave past it down from generation to generation. All based on color. By the way lets go back here to Anthony Johnson. How did it end for Anthony Johnson the freed indentured servant who then was an owner of another black man. He died in 1670. What happened to his land the Jury had to discide what to do with it. the land Johnson left behind could be cesed by the government because he was by quote an allien.
I have four hundred years to cover so lets get started. It's like Thomas Jefferson said if a nation expects to be ignerant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. You can not take my word for it, you can't take the word of posts, you can't take the word of text books, you must do your own homework. This is your country, this is your history! Read, and read people who disagree with each other, you find the trueth. It's Imperative for the repulic.
Manifest Destiny is a perversion of divine providence. And the four major forces Commerce, Religion, Government, and Science there all good but when they collude there is trouble. All of these forces turned against the native Americans, our founders liked the native Americans. But then we needed land. The government needed to expand. We needed to make money on it. Religion was telling people well they're savages. They're not quite as whole. Same thing with science they colluded all for the goal for making money or for the best for the collective. Well I want to talk about slavery in the 17th century. We all learned about slavery in school we all know the horrors of it. The fact that Whites enslaved blacks builds on the idea that all men are created equal is beyond hypocritical we know that. So how did it happen? We know it's a national Tragedy. We also know tthe treasure that is Abraham Lincon. We know how it ended with the cival war. But does anyone know how slavery started? We know the ending, how did it start? I mean nobody came in and said hey everybody lets have slaves. It doesn't sound like that could happen. The fact is that it started small and it became one of the worst scars in American history and global history. In the early colonial America it wasn't slavery, it was Indentured servitude.
What is Indentured servitude? Well indentured servitude isn't the same as slavery. There's some important differences here. It shares many of the same things we have today with illegal immigration. I believe that illegal immigration is modern day slavery, but thats not quite right. Illegal immigration the way it's happening now is more like indentured servitude. If your an illegal working in the New York you'll barely get paid enough to rent a bed not a room a bed. For 8 hours and someone else is going to rent that same bed for the next 8 hours. You have enough time to go sleep in it and go back to the mercy of your employer. You don't have any real rights. The governments not going to help you. No one's going to help you because you don't exist, you're not in the records. In theory indentured servitude is like that but indentured servitude promised a light at the end of the tunnel. Because after your time with the master was up you got what were called at the time freedom dues.
That was usually a little bit of land and a gun. the most important part of freedom dues was freedom. Indentured servitude was a common practice at the time around the globe at the time. Everybody was using this Indentured servitude. It was like slavery but not quite and it's not an American problem it's a human problem that happened all over the world. Now there were criterion on witch people were used as early indentured servants.
But here's what's not taught if I asked was it a white man or a black man as the master and the indentured servant? You would say, well the criteria at the beginning was not based on color it was based on creed. it was non-Christians that were used as servants. Collonists didn't identify them selves as white, they identified them selves as Christians. Whites, Blacks, you name it they were all used for this earliest form of slavery. If an indentured servant broke a contract they got the same punishment regardless of color. If an indentured servant just said I exept Jesus they could get out. Now this is bad but this isn't slavery so how did it happen?
Massachusetts was the first state to legalize and recognize slavery other states soon followed. Why? because it was profitable. Like Verginia. Now do you know who owned the first state sponsored slave in America? His name was Anthony Johnson. He was a black man. Can you believe that? How did a Black man own a Black man? before he was an owner he was an indentured servant. He worked in Verginia in 1621 his name was Antonio. It was recorded in a census it just recorded his first name and his race. He wasn't a slave he was an indentured servant. He worked on a Tabacco farm and his master gave him own plot of land and he prefected his skills on that plot of land for 15 years on that plantation. And during that time he married and had four children. After that time Antonio negotiated and bought his own freedom and thats when he dicided he was going to become an owner. Then he changed his name to Anthony Johnson and in 1640 Anthony and his wife bought a plot of land and hired not slaves because there weren't slaves he hired indentured servants.
Now that same year in another place there was a court case that involved three indentured servants who had excaped there were three. Two white guy's and a black guy. Now these guy's ran away they exapt and they were caught. Two of them had their servatude extended for four years and the third one had his servatude extended for life. Can you guess witch one got it extended for life? Witch means you can't buy your freedom so you become a slave. It was the Black man. Well why did the two white guy's get only four years and the black guy got life? The oldest story of time, this was the beginning of slavery. He was black, and this was the beginning of the real nightmare that took a long time to get out.
Now Anthony had his indentured servant his name was John Caster. Well John Caster who was also black complained to a court that Anthony unfarely extended his terms of servatude. the court emancipated John Caster and said your a free man you can go. But Anthony went back and tried to convince the court that Caster belonged to him and should be his for life. He won the court case believe it or not and Caster became a slave. I tell you this story to show you that its a human problem it's not a white problem or a black problem man will enslave man any time when he can. This is a warning sign it's happened through out history it's one of the layers of cake. Wait a minute wait a minute any man can do it. Do you know where the word slave came from?
The slavic people in central Europe. It didn't become race until much much later. Now this is horrible but it's about to get really bad. We all ways have to come back to the formula. When they collude your introuble., commerce, government, religion, and science. We have to go to Tabacco. Tabacco worth alot of money. It was a skill set that the english were familiar with but they weren't good at it at all. The people that were good at it were the indentured servants. They spent there whole time doing it and they had a chance to buy their way out if they could do it well. Yet the collonies depended on this just like they tell us now we're dependant on Illegal immagrants. I mean if they can make your tabacco cheaper or your salad cheaper there will allways be somebody that will take advantage of it.
So at the time the collonies were struggling economacally so the pressure started to mount to produce more tabacco and more tabacco. There's a crisis sound familiar. At the same time the collonies argued that freeing the indenured servants was causing a problem. It was a threat to property owners. They said that it was to costly. They couldn't keep up. These guy's would leave then commerce would be hurt because there was so much turn over and they had to spend to much money. Witch made tabacco more costly witch hurt the economy. So restrictions started being placed because commerce was hurt so government started putting more restrictions on. They placed restrictions on owning land and that caused the indentured servants to become upset because wait a minute thats our way out. Well these guy's started taking to the streets and setting fires. Of course in stead of moving the collonies to regect the horrific nature of servatude and move tored freedom because peoples dallars were at stake they went the other way. You know whats strange here I think this was our first tea party. The master was taking to much from the everyday people. It was the first time we saw the attitude of manifest destiny as well. If they could do anything they could take the land from the servants.
In 1662 Virinia took one of the last steps on the road to true evil. They in acted a law that said all children born into the colony to a slave mother would be enslaved. So now not only were you a slave but that slave past it down from generation to generation. All based on color. By the way lets go back here to Anthony Johnson. How did it end for Anthony Johnson the freed indentured servant who then was an owner of another black man. He died in 1670. What happened to his land the Jury had to discide what to do with it. the land Johnson left behind could be cesed by the government because he was by quote an allien.
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