In this day and time there is a need for religious reform. We as a people need to ask ourselves what is really important nowadays. There are no more shocking, disturbing news anymore, for the most part. There was ANOTHER mass shooting yet again and the only thing i could feel for is the each individual families who have lost a loved one. Empathy for sudden death, the agony of burring an adult child perhaps. The lack of common sense gun laws with pandering to special interest groups who's bottom line is about money.
My people, my community, the African American need to address our own issues right now. We have no culture, no language, nothing to separate from this on going oppression today. Where do we go today? The halls of higher learning? Churches? Synagogues? Mosques? I am a Christian by tradition, and this is failing my community today and has been for a very long time. During slavery it was a tool to control the masses with superstitions and promises of a better life in the here after. Today I implore you to take another look into our religious traditions and explore some of the origins that we hold so dear and see if it is worth revising.
I'm asking you to take time and list to Professor James Small, and start your own journey of questioning what was handed down for generations without asking.
...Pandora
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