A tremendous amount of societal unrest and profound difficulties
in the area of race relations can be traced back to the ramifications
of the black community continuing to embrace 'secular white
evolutionary humanism' applied politically, hereafter referred to as
'secularism:' A secularism that in many ways is the
dominant religion in America today. A secularism whose ideology was
developed by predominantly "white elitists" and tragically
continues to be embraced even by many Afro-Centric churches
throughout America.
Now what do I mean by that?
In a nutshell, an origin of race consistent with God as the
creator will always lead to equality, because we are all made in his
image. A secularist account of origin of race assumes that in
differences within races some are higher on the evolutionary scale
than others. Thus if secular evolutionists are racists, they are
consistent within that framework.
Applied economically, secularism eventually becomes mercantilism
or "materialism" set up to serve the elite or ruling class.
Economic development for the benefits of indigenous populations
(Native Americans) or those transplanted through the cruel and
inhuman acts of slavery (African Americans) were never a
consideration or high on white ethno-centric secularists' agenda.
White secularism will always lead to the preoccupation of
materialism. As self-gratification through the accumulation of wealth
becomes the substitute for spiritual values, often turning into greed
as it tries to fill the spiritual emptiness and vacuum left by the
practical effects of rejecting a world view were God is viewed as the
creator and sustainer of all tribes, nations and races.
Listen carefully to the rhetoric that stirs up so much societal,
political and racial tension these days. You will always hear it
revolve around the idea that material things are all that matters in
defining equality. Furthermore, it is the primary role of any
government to give you those material things, whether it is free
healthcare, free college tuition, a guaranteed income, guaranteed
minimum wages etc. This then becomes the final measure of all worth
and value as a human being.
Individuals and groups of peoples set this up as the final
standard for determining and judging the worth of other people. This
allows for the elite or ruling classes to easily exploit, divide,
demonize and manipulate entire people groups for the political
purposes of the ruling secular elite.
Let me try and break it down on a more practical level. Many black
leaders, ministers, educators and even those elected to local and
state offices see the devastating effects of embracing a
completely secularist world view. However, they rarely are given a
platform to speak or disagree with many of the "progressive
ideas" being advanced by a political and cultural philosophy,
which originated from predominantly
white-ethnocentric-liberal-secular-evolutionary-humanists. Whether it
is gay marriage or abortion on demand or other issues of the day,
indigenous Afro-centric culture, especially those built around the
centrality of the Word of God and tradition, who view God as the
creator and sustainer of all life, initially had great difficulty
embracing these ideas as progressive advancement. Many still do.
Especially ministers and black churches.
The issue of civil rights and equality based solely on race was a
no brainier, because it came naturally and flowed from the idea that
God created all people, tribes and nations. Therefore all people were
equal. Many still have great difficulty with these progressive ideas,
however, when they speak up or refuse to embrace these ideas, they
are marginalized and treated with disdain.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is a perfect example. Up until the late
70's he spoke out against abortion and homosexual behavior as being
immoral and harmful to the black community. However, the political
philosophy of the Democratic party he came to be identified with,
made it very plain to him, that the progressive ideas had to be fully
embraced or he would have no chance for his own political
advancement, so he capitulated.
If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had lived, he would have been
faced with the same difficulties and choices. In spite of his
personal moral lapses, Dr. King was grounded in the Word of God as
the primary source and foundation for his leadership to end
segregation and advance civil rights, along with the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution. Prior to his death in 1968, he
actually had more success working with white Republican lawmakers,
who recognized the immorality and inconsistency of segregation. Many
of them would be referred to as conservative today.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by a majority of
Republican votes in the U.S. Congress and large numbers also voted
for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Johnson eventually came
around and signed the civil rights act into law, but not before
enormous political pressure and societal unrest persuaded him to do
so. Johnson began, and for a long period of his political career, as
a racist southern Democrat, as were Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd,
who bitterly opposed and worked against these civil rights laws. Some
say all that began to change with the Republican nomination of
Goldwater in 1964 and his emphasis of state's rights and his
strong opposition to a growing federal bureaucracy. However, one of
the most prominently held urban legends of those times was that
Senator Barry Goldwater, the GOP candidate for president in 1964, was
a racist because he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Many
say this vote of Goldwater marked the start of when “the GOP began
to go against civil rights. But Goldwater was actually a strong
supporter of civil rights in his home state of Arizona, supporting
state initiatives to advance civil rights. He was in fact a member of
the NAACP. He opposed the federal law because he believed it to be
too broad and a federal bureaucratic intrusion that would have
negative consequences on individual states. In my opinion he was
wrong for not voting with the majority of his GOP colleagues, however
he was not a racist.
The truth is that the GOP has had by far, a greater historical
record of advancing civil rights in this country, dating back to
Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery, than the Democratic Party’s
dismal historical record opposing the end of slavery, Jim Crow and
standing in opposition to the enactment of civil rights legislation.
Sadly it is true however, that the GOP has done a horrible job of
reaching out to black communities over the last 40 years.
Nevertheless, from the creation of the party, which opposed
slavery, to this present day, you cannot find a single plank in the
GOP platform that indicates anything otherwise. In fact, it was
Republican President Eisenhower who proffered the first civil rights
act of 1957, which was watered down by White Southern Democrats.
In our present day, pick your issue: school choice, urban
development that emphasizes a truly deregulated free market economy,
strong national defense, border security, traditional marriage,
opposition to abortion on demand, merit based pay, any disagreement
with the philosophy and tactics employed by Black Lives Matter etc.
Any black leader, educator, minister, jurist, police officer,
veteran, actor, sports figure or journalist, etc. who dares to
question or disagree with the progressive agenda, developed and
embraced by white secularists, is ostracized, ridiculed and mocked.
Ask yourself when was the last time you saw any black leader giving
regular analysis on CNN or MSNBC, who did not fully embrace a white
secularist progressive agenda? They have black analysts, but only
those who philosophically are in agreement with the progressive
agenda, developed by white secularists. (Van Jones currently holds
that regular chair over at CNN and any others who appear regularly
are all progressives.) They do have analysts who occasionally are
critical of the progressive agenda, but they are exclusively white.
Black leaders who are critical of the progressive agenda are
'ghettoized' and forced to appear on Fox News.
This is political and ideological racism masquerading as
thoughtful journalism.
Will Afro-Americans ever escape the tyranny of enslavement to a
political and cultural philosophy of government, developed by and
forced upon them by white progressive secularists and so-called black
leaders who now see their only personal tickets to paradise through
advancing and promoting this progressive agenda? Maybe. If a
vibrant spiritual renewal and revival takes hold throughout
Afro-Centric Churches. Maybe. If more courageous black leaders are
willing to challenge and repudiate secularism as having any
meaningful hope for positive and lasting change.
Maybe.
These are the sad realities of the present times in which we live,
but with God all things are still possible.
/NJS
