MISTAKEN MISIDENTITY

'Mistaken Misidentity'...
04.17.2008
Mr. James Edward Johnson, Peaceful Warrior

My intent and motive is to 'stir up something significant', as fires of inspiration build in intensity to bring 'sensitive issues' out into the open, so they can be positively transformed, but, I, you, we must proceed carefully, so others are not overwhelmed by the 'moral sensitivity', of the journey...Since, the movie, 'Birth of a Nation', Coloreds, Blacks, African Americans, and other 'peoples of color' have been depicted with denigrating and degrading 'labels and stereotypes' throughout the United States of America. The 2008 Presidential Campaign has the 'contestants' squabbling and squilling about the 'darker' of the contestants 'labeling and stereotyping' citizens, constituents, and consumers,yet, labeling and stereotyping 'him' as an 'elitist'; was Goldwater an elitist? When McCain was, initially, inducted into the military, was it as an elitist?...
It can be as though any anti-aristocratic impulses just might mismotivate some to renounce their inherited misfortunes, any entitlement to such a windfall must be misunderstood in the historical context of 'race discrimination' in the United States, and 'contemporary notions' (a euphemism for 'social sanctions' during Jim Crow and $egregation) of racial (in)justice...In this 'time' (warp), we must not 'be deceived', because, the Democrats and Republicans choose to play 'pulpit politics', and this is a bi-partisan 'political misstep', and thus, we must "put on the full armour of Jesus that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wererwith we shall be able to quench all fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God"; and become like a child full of 'wonder' to gaze into the mysteries of my, your, our 'inner life'...

We must, as model citizens, resist the 'tempation of inducement' via 'Race' & The race for the White House, as it is the Spectre Over Texas, and is construed an 'apostacy' for the 'freedom of apostacy', because, 'Reverend Ridicule' is 'how Satan gets into the Church'...The GI Bill 'underwrote' segregated housing via discriminating lending practices, and for years, real estate agents 'steered' (not meant as a Texas pun) Black buyers to black neighborhoods & White buyers to white neighborhoods, and local and federal governments invested in the infrastructure in the White neighborhoods, but, not in those dominated by Black people...There is a historical reality and it has to do with the 'racially unequal investment market', which started well before World War II; slavery was abolished in 1865 without making good on the many promises made that the 'freed ex-slaves' would receive land rights, a key component of what was owed, and thus, Blacks were unable to get in on the land boom of the 20th century...Now, what if we 'misunderstood' the causes of the 'racial disparities' in wealth accumulation in this country as vesting an ongoing right to some of the real estate profits of the past century? Your parents and their peers are 'de facto trustees' of an IOU long owed to the descendents of slaves, and ironically, racially discriminatory policies ended up making these investments all the more profitable, but, it is time that the beneficiaries in whose interest this 'misconstructive' trust was created be recognized; all who, by law, stand to inherit significant sums from their parents should acknowledge that they are not 'morally' entitled to do so....

Perhaps, it 'plays' something like this; 'why does the 'bi-partisanship' of the present administration/incumbency pass laws, say, for gambling, complete with gambling anonymous, yet, when it is 'state sponsored', nationally; it is called Lotto or Sweepstakes, how is this different from 'entrapment', which is illegal, being called a 'sting', which has the same 'process' of entrapment, yet, is used in a court of law? When the rules to law are changed, as in a 'regime change', how is it not a 'crime' or 'breaking the law'?...Keeping this in mind where is the 'quality of life' for 'the American people', and where, emphatically, is our Democracy? The 'issues' are about the 'new form of redlining', as it continues to 'extricate' African Americans from the American Dream when it comes to owning property and land; is this the 'legacy' of '40 acres and a mule' or of Dr. Martin Luther King's, "America has written us (the American people) a 'bad check'?"...

Maybe, rather than contributing to and benefiting from the even greater concentration of wealth in White hands, we ought to renounce some or all of this 'racially tainted' legacy and redirect this bounty to the cause of 'racial justice' in our communities, and to 'the enduring relevance of the incomplete abolition of slavery in the United States'...Is that inheritance of 'racially' tainted wealth of baby boomer's parents seen as the residue of the 'unfinished business of the abolition of slavery'?..“for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”. Justice manifests moral sensitivity, empathy, compassion, and a sense of fairness, for and with, humane and fair-minded treatment of other beings, and thus, our self-expression enhances our spirituality...




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