Hey I am currently attending Napa High School and I am a junior there. I am also on the football team, and this last week something very interesting came up. First of all, I am not intending to hurt anybody’s feeling if they are black. I am only saying this for the intro to my question basically. Well in Napa the ratio for white to black people is about 100:1. So on our football team, we have two black people on our team. Now 2 weeks ago, we were getting ready for our football game in the locker room. We then left to go out on the field to go stretch, and when we came back we found Darius, one of our black teammates, holding his cleats that were soaked from being in a toilet. Nobody really said anything because it could happen to anybody, but last week our other black person, named DeCory, had his cleats thrown into the toilet. This might become national according to the cop that works at the campus, and it made me wonder why God would create different races if he knew there was going to be hatred and racism and slaves? --David
David,
I believe in the Genesis account of Creation; that God created the world in six days, including one man and one woman. Because of this, I believe there is only one race, the human race. Dark skin is simply a gene concentration. If several families moved off by themselves and weren’t found by the rest of civilization for two hundred years, those people’s decedents would take on a certain appearance; they would look like a family.
In the Bible God did not take racism lightly. Remember when Moses’ sister Miriam objected to his wife Zipporah? Miriam was struck with Leprosy and had to leave the camp. Zipporah was from Ethiopia. (Ussher, Annals of the World p. 43)
As Americans, we think slavery was Black African and existed before the Civil War. But slavery has been through human history; the Hebrews were slaves in Egypt, all the ancient civilizations we are studying had slaves. In America many of the people who came from Europe came as Indentured servants, they had no money for passage so they bound themselves to work for several years for the company who brought them over.
A pastor and historian in Georgia told us this summer, that a university was studying music and found a relationship between the music of the Scotts Covenanters and the African spirituals in this country. The conclusion was that during the persecution of the Covenanters in Scotland, many had been shipped as slaves to the plantations in the Carolina’s, where they worked with African slaves and spread their faith and music.
One of the worst things this nation has ever done to any people is to institute our welfare program. In slavery, (unbiblical, though it was) at least there were people the slaves were accountable to and many loved, as the testimony of the slave narratives records.
Under welfare, the state is the new provider and master.
One of the greatest books to read about the black ‘tribe’ in this country is Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington.
~Regina
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