DREAM ON DEAR ONES, THE TRAIN HAS NOT YET COME, AND THE JOURNEY IS A LONG ONE

I recently wrote the following to a long distance friend who lives in Japan:

What has left me dumbfounded by this whole affair is how far black Christians have compromised their own personal relationships and faith in Jesus Christ for this two-bit cheap Marxist corrupt and duplicitous politician. 

I have several black friends who are Christians.  I wrote to them to warn them in 2008 about this man.  Dxxx, it was like pulling teeth.  Some even went so far as to equate Jesus Christ with this man, by claiming that Christ was a community organizer too!  Can you believe the level of biblical illiteracy to have made that claim!?  And this from a genuine and sweet Spirit-filled sister in the Lord!

The other day I texted a dear friend of mine who happens to be a black Puerto Rican whose married to a black American from the south.  They are both close and dear friends.  I asked him if he was aware of what was going on with this government; the scandals, the abuse of federal power, the overreaching arm of government into people’s privacy, and the outright persecution of Evangelical Christians, while elevating Muslims, Islam, and the Koran by this White House.  All I got back from him was “Yes I have heard of things like that…”  This is from a genuine born again Spirit-filled Bible-believing Christian!

Is this what blacks have come to in this country?  That after they had secured the blessings of liberty for themselves and equality, in one generation, they gave it all up for the expediency of surrendering the hard earned and well fought liberties their forbears had obtained for them, and surrendered them to become slaves once more, but this time not of the plantation owner, but of the federal government bureaucrat; having given up their citizenship rights to become vassals and wards of the all-consuming and all demanding state?

I’ve seen it done in one generation, having been born when there still existed segregated buses and segregated public places, and having witnessed for myself the prejudice and distrust between blacks and whites, and then what appeared for a brief moment an emancipation, but seeing it quickly transformed and given over to a voracious political machinery the likes of which I had not seen at any other time in our nation’s history – a machinery so vast and corrupt that it now encompasses and has overtaken a political party and the very government that was meant to secure the hard-fought and precious liberty these people had sought since the end of slavery a century before.

Now we have a president in the Oval Office, who could have been a shining example of this emancipation, if not for the machinery that put him there and his own hollow beliefs in that machinery and what it stands for, and the ideology that put him there, along with the corruption that has been so vast, so widespread and institutionalized, and so severe, that like a cancerous growth that has festered and gone viral, it now oozes the puss of corruption in one scandal after another without any end in sight.

It is a heartbreaking sight, for there was the glimmer of hope in these people when Barack Obama was first inaugurated that the dreams of countless of generations had finally reached the pinnacle of American ascendancy, and once having made it there, would usher in a new age of idealism and hope the likes of which this nation had never seen since its founding. 

Alas, what this man has brought has been shame and dashed those hopes – the hopes of many on the rocks of ideological and political expediency and an agenda and trajectory that this nation had ought not have taken.

The fundamental transformation promised in government was not and should not have been what this administration brought, because in just four years, it crystalized the already institutionalized corruption in Washington to levels beyond even those it had known, and since that time, has brought the nation to its knees. 

It is not the color of Obama’s skin that has done this, for he personifies both the black community and the white community, having been the sibling of an African and a Caucasian.  No.  It is the content of the character that was built into him, forged in the fires of Chicago Style political and social Marxist activism coupled with the easy money from the machinery that nurtured his political career, and the ideology that gave birth to his ideas that has done it. 

We are now reeling under the weight of that ideology and the machinery that spawned it.  As for my black friends who are dear to my heart and who are my fellow Americans; I can only say, dream on dear ones, the train has not yet come, and the journey is a long one.