Discrimination in the Black Church

A woman was bitching about Hispanics or Mexicans; I don’t remember what she called them. She was upset because ‘they’ receive aid, welfare, food stamps, and don’t pay taxes. Let me rip apart that statement. First off, referring to them as ‘they’ means you consider yourself superior. Second, so are you jealous that it’s no longer just blacks receiving government assistance? Third, you can’t get shit unless you are a legal resident, and even that has its limits. Government assistance is hard to get anyway, so how do you think ‘they’ can get it? Fourth, if ‘they’ buy anything, anything at all, guess what boo? They’re paying taxes! Why are you bitching about poor people paying taxes when our own Secretary of the Treasury couldn’t pay his own fucking taxes and he’s in charge of money? The disgust in her voice was ironic. Never mind the fact that ‘they’ are another group of oppressed people. As well as those of Arab descent or who ‘look Muslim’ (didn’t know you could look a religion), who get hassled wherever they go, especially by TSA. The focus is no longer on blacks. If anything, whites probably prefer us over other groups because they ‘know about us’ and we have history.

She seemed like she was just as angry as white people are about immigration and government assistance. She needs to quit watching Faux News, and stop listening to idiots such as Rev. Jesse Peterson. I was just appalled at this fact, but I guess this woman forgot how we were treated and where we came from and how we are still struggling. It hasn’t been blacks against whites. It’s whites against non-whites. So the fact that you’re a legal black citizen still doesn’t put you on higher level. 

Religion destroys and divides people even more. Christianity is the ‘right religion’ and everyone else’s is bullshit. Every religion claims the same thing. Unless it is a philosophy such as Buddhism and Taoism who don’t claim shit. You say the Bible commands us to love and respect others. So how is shoving your religion down their throats and talking shit about them showing that? Another thing made me laugh. The Pastor talked about Muslim extremists and how they strap on a vest and blow themselves and others up for their ‘false god’. All because they were told, they will have 1,000 virgins in Heaven. It took everything not to literally lol. Why not talk about Christian extremists, who decided to convert or kill others for their ‘false god’? You wanna talk numbers; Christians have killed more people than any other religion combined. (Yes, Catholics are Christians too.) Not only is that suicide rewarded with virgin concept untrue; suicide goes against the Quran. So you are not doing Allah’s will by blowing yourself up.

“Bukhari Volume 2, Book 23, Number 445: Narrated Jundab the Prophet said, "A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him."

Bukhari Volume 8, Book 73, Number 73: Narrated Thabit bin Ad-Dahhak: "And if somebody commits suicide with anything in this world, he will be tortured with that very thing on the Day of Resurrection."

The virgin thing is misinterpreted by the West and we just roll with it. It doesn’t talk about virgins, just companions (for men and women) and Muslims say that it is an allegory, simply saying you will enjoy all pleasures while being in Heaven. So it’s comparable to the Christian belief that after death you’ll be next to Jesus with angel wings on a gold paved road with diamonds, jewels and a huge house. Both religions spew the same type of bullshit, but Islam is wrong? However, I do understand the point that was trying to be made by the Pastor. He was saying how Muslims are willing to die for their ‘false religion’ while Christians can’t even get to church on time. He also mentioned Jihad, of course with the assumption that it means Holy War, and kill the infidels bullshit. Jihad literally means struggle. Martyrs of Islam. Don’t Christians have martyrs? And haven’t plenty of Christians slain ‘infidels’? Seriously, if you put the Bible and the Quran side by side, you’ll see the same bullshit, parables, commandments and what not. Just worded differently in different languages. I have read most of the Bible but I have not read too much of the Quran. Everyone is so blinded by their own faith that they can’t notice those that follow ‘false religions’ have the same commandment. Live a good life according to God. So you’d think that people who be happy that at least they have some sort of moral playbook to follow unlike those damn Atheists! It’s all a bunch of bullshit, but to each his/her own. If you need to follow or believe a fairy tale to motivate yourself, blame when something bad happens, praise when something good happens, pray to ask for shit, or to live a good life because you want to be rewarded with ‘angel wings’ or ‘virgins’, so be it. Some of us don’t need fairy tales to live out successful and fulfilling lives.

Ya know I always wonder if I hadn’t been raise in church my entire life and attend Christian schools, if I would have the same issues with myself. I was following God’s ‘commandments’ so things that went against the Bible were wrong and I couldn’t do it. I felt ashamed and depressed believing I had let God and my family down. And for what? If I had been living my life without ties to a book of bullshit, I wouldn’t have felt shameful for shit. Non white people were the ‘cursed by the Devil’ so whites were superior. I tried to ‘pray away’ my appearance and wake up one morning with blonde hair and blue eyes. This shit and the psychological abuse I went through totally fucked up my self-perception. I feel like I’ve been robbed of loving myself and appreciating my appearance as a kid because I had that bullshit shoved down my throat. It’s depressing to think about it. But as an adult I am still coming into my own, every day. It’s exciting to be myself and not follow the ‘laws’ of a book.

Bottom line: There really isn’t one. This was me simply expressing my disbelief at the things I heard at church today. But really, why would I expect much from a group of people who voted for Obama because he was black?