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“It’s My Fate!” |
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
 Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.
To do both, God endows a human with the ability to choose his/her activities on earth in a providence type fashion-i.e. with foresight and forethought. However, when Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves these beliefs were brainwashed out of their world view and self-defeating beliefs were brainwashed into their minds. First, the captors eliminated the slaves' foresight, forethought, and ability to think. Then, they were taught God's Foreknowledge was about their predestination as slaves--and lasting "forever." Whites reinforced these teaching by showing the slaves their evil, greedy, amoral, and warring character while being able to prosper (e.g. money, power)-all by means of the gun. The brainwashed slaves wrongly assumed that since Whites were (and are) so willing, capable, and eager to kill, this must be what God had ordained.
So effective was this terrible brainwashing that the spiritually, emotionally, and physically beaten down slaves believed their inhumane suffering at the hands of Whites "is my fate"-a wrong belief that has been passed down into the minds of many of today's struggling Blacks. Now, it stands as a block to them rising above poverty. Hence, they cope with their racism-derived problems, as taught by Whites, by "Being about nothing," by Resignation, by Quietism, and by Do-Nothing-ism. But Ancient Africans said Divine Love gives every human being many birth gifts. One is the awareness of having supreme self-worth (dignity). A second is the urge to complete one's purpose in life. A third is to achieve three goods in the world-the good of wealth; the good of children; and the good of immortality (the most important)-each by work since work is the cure for poverty. The point: African Tradition has never embraced the belief that to suffer needlessly is part of anyone's Fate. Correction comes from getting the education that enables one to thrive honorably in the USA.
website: www.jablifeskills.com
Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.
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