In Matthew 16:5-10, Jesus and his disciples had gone across the lake, and
His disciples had forgotten to take bread. Jesus said to them “be
careful!” And, a bit more explicitly, He said again to them “be on your guard against
the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” The disciples discussed
this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.” Then
Jesus, being aware of their discussion, said to them, “You of little
faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? Do
you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five
thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? Or the seven loaves for
the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? How is it you do
not understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Then for the third
time, Jesus, in plain and clear terms said to them “but be on your guard
against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood
that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but
against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Firstly, to have dark or black skin is not disability. In Song of Solomon 1:6, it is clear that our ancestral terrains or environments on earth – how much and how long our ancestors have been exposed to the sun/UV light is the cause of the variations we see in human skin color across the world – “look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me ...” So, anyone can desire to appear or look dark or black. Lest the same people who push the black face propaganda simply to gain politically, the same will continue to caricature people with black skins as not welcoming, unfriendly, angry and aggressive as they have been doing for ages now. Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives and the Republicans, you the so call ‘people of color’!
Secondly, the usual trick and manipulation is to get you buy the lies that they are with you and for you. If they can get you buy the lies that your skin makes you less a human being/breed than them and that you are accursed to suffering because Job exclaimed “My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat” (Job 30:30) following his suffering in the hands of Satan; that you are disadvantaged being black and for that you are vexed, that you love not yourself and are/have nothing to be desired: that there, is their very delight and pleasure. They have always thrived in casting the mental spell to make others feel inferior and beggarly; that way, they feel like proud warriors who have the aids you need to fill the phantom deficits they have created in you to their advantage. Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives and the Republicans, you the so call ‘people of color’!
Third and very importantly, the high and disproportionate rate of imprisonment of especially black males in America is going down though slowly with the numbers still a big outlier when compared to other skin colors or ethnicities. The data chart below is from Pew Research Center and covers the trends and declines in blacks’ imprisonments and two other social groups in America from 2006 to 2018.
From the above chart, we notice that in 2006: 2261 in
100,000 blacks were imprisoned; 1,073 in 100,000 Hispanic; 324 in 100,000
‘White’. Then as of 2018: 1,501 in 100,000 blacks were imprisoned; 797 in
100,000 Hispanic; 268 in 100,000 ‘white’. What is the point here? The
astronomical rate of black male imprisonments is going down, and we should not allow
them to subtly turn the tide against our wives and daughters – black females. If
we keep falling for the yeast of the
Conservatives as they try to lead us to think and believe that other people desiring to be black and to appear black is
offensive, what the Conservatives will soon do is make a piece of legislation to
render any form and by any mean, of appearance in a skin color that’s not your
birth’s skin color illegal. And before you know it or realize, they will turn
and say look, their women are spending on all manner of creams and cosmetics to
brighten or lighten their skin color. Look, their women are breaking the laws,
come, let us throw their women into prisons. And now they would have created a
window to use and turn also to imprison our women and that, perhaps even
more massively. We should not let their usual manipulations work this time
around. Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives!
But if you still want to be the doubting Thomas or play dumb to follow the yeast of the Conservatives, any way in the Western world, to think that the clamor against ‘black face’ compensates for their hates and discrimination and your years of economic exclusion by the Conservatives; if what you need right now is this inappropriate sympathy and if you choose to submit to being misled to misappropriate inappropriate sympathy for a payback or compensations for perennial deprivations, I am saying to you, think again. According to Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public policies, in their Journalist’s Resource – Research on today’s news topics of August 5, 2019, black men are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police officers than their ‘white’ (‘white men’) counterparts. The American Journals of Public Health report of 2018 put the ratio at as high as 3.5 times. So, think again before the same people, in no time from now, turn and make our women their target. It will be more aggravating for them to now turn to our sisters, wives and daughters and throw them into prisons for using creams and soaps and makeups to try to look less tanned, even when we are still battling the high rate of our males incarcerations. And come to think of it, what is it that is wrong with your skin or face that they are misleading you to feel nobody should try to look like you? Guard yourself against the yeast of the Conservatives and the Republicans!
