Posts Tagged ‘Injustice’

A-white-mob-attempts-to-abduct-a-black-man-Red-Summer-1919Black lives matter. The history of black slavery, oppression, injustice, and murder for a very long time is an abomination, then and now. Period.

Anyone who denies that, doesn’t believe that, or thinks that’s okay, is both a liar and a murderer (hate, as Jesus says in Matthew 5, is the same thing as murder). If you call yourself a Christian and you fall into this way of thinking, then you are actively breaking two of the Ten Commandments. You are guilty of not loving your brother as yourself (the last five Commandments).

Jesus Christ is The Quintessential Leader. If we claim to follow Him, but our behavior is diametrically opposite to His, then we are not quintessential leaders. We are also not Christians, because our behavior is not like Christ’s. Take the time to read and think about I John.
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The Blood of Emmett TillThe Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As with Blood Done Sign My Name, the sordid story of widespread white supremacism that led to racist murder in Oxford, NC in 1970, Timothy B. Tyson has yet again masterfully shone the light on how entrenched racism has been – and, in many ways, still is – in the South. (more…)

Hate is unquintessential leadershipA wise man once wrote, “That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

Unquintessential leadership has always existed. In fact, it has been the predominant way that the human race has operated from the beginning.

Unquintessential leadership is completely natural to us, while quintessential leadership is completely unnatural to us. (more…)