18 March, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I recently finished an excellent book on the history of\nblack people in America,\nThe Negro in the Making of America<\/em> (New\nYork, Collier Books, 1964, by Benjamin Quarles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ah, how far we are, it would seem, from the post-bellum,\npre-civil rights era – those days between the Civil War the first World War. .\n. Still, untamed barbarians, we are, or have returned to being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the post-War south in 1899, on behalf of the\nstill-not-yet-enfranchised Negro in America,\nthere was founded the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta, directed by one Will W.\nAlexander. By its “gradualist\nphilosophy,” the Commission published tracts and pamphlets describing\n“the Negro’s contributions to American life” (Quarles, p. 199).<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a long way to go. \nIt was be another 36 years before Rosa Parks stepped aboard a white’s only\nbus. Back then it was great progress to\nform The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. (The\nASWPL, I quess.) What forward thinking\nwomen! Stand up for justice! Publically oppose lynching (whether it is the\nprivate or public variety). Be bold and\ntrue to Truth and Justice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Light bulb! We need\nto start a society for prevent the termination of “abortion\nproviders” so that they may get the opportunity to repent and save their\nsouls. If a revival comes, and folks\ndetermine to rescue the innocents and, to do so, they start offing abortion\nproviders (a.k.a. APs) off left and right, what are we going to do? (Remember! Abortionists are people, too! And they deserve protection and due process.) We need to found NAPAT: the National Association\nfor the Prevention of Abortionist Terminations! \nAnd I will volunteer to be a founder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the Commission of 1899. It “met\nwith some successes in cities and in colleges and university centers,”\nwrites Quarles. “But its influence\nwas small in the rural south.” (Old\nhabits are hard to break, don’t cha know! \nJust couldn’t get a consensus on that tough lynching question. Well, when you have slaves that won’t work,\nwhat’s to do but apply the lynch! Scare\nthe bejeebers out of the others and motivate them to man-up, woman-up, children-up\nand put out the work!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it is has always with humanity. The members of the race do not generally do\nthe right thing. Ours is a selfish,\nfallen, sinful species – uniquely corrupted and distinguished so from the rest\nof the “animal kingdom.” The “fall of man” is just that – a tragedy of those animals – humans – created\nin the very image of God, the fall of the very species who had the great\nprivilege and duty to uphold and honor the God in whose image they were made. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah we butcher babies ourselves, our very kin, for\nconvenience sake. And if we are not\nparticipating in the butchering, we are guilty of tolerating it. There is a sin of neglect, of failure to take\naction, and of “toleration” of evil for which we will give account (cf.\nRev. 2:20). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 18 March, 2019 I recently finished an excellent book on the history of black people in America, The Negro in the Making of America (New York, Collier Books, 1964, by Benjamin Quarles). Ah, how far we are, it would seem, from the post-bellum, pre-civil rights era – those days between the Civil War the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,12,33,21,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}