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*18 February 2007*
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*“THE MIGHTY MINORITY”*
*Deuteronomy 7:17-26*
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We continue today with this biblical perspective on Black history in America.
There has been a long standing debate about the effects of slavery on the culture of the kidnapped African.
Did slavery and the experience in America completely strip the African of his~/her identity or was there something that survived the brutalities.
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Franklin Frazier and Melville Herskovitz’ classic, “The Myth of the Negro Past” are seminal works exploring this.
W.E.B.
DuBois, who had great influence on William Moss, the 7th Pastor of this church introduced the idea of the twoness of Black experience.
There exists within the Negro in America the African and the American.
Cornel West sharpened this insight, there is a third reality.
Something that is neither African nor American, it is distinctive a hybrid, both.
This is how we should understand this text under our scrutiny today.
In that reality, it may be very easy to see how one will never exactly fit in any place.
Some of our people suffer from this.
Everlasting chip upon a shoulder sandwiched between white racism and the identity of being “first world citizens” What do I mean by that term?
Well think of the worst case scenario of poverty, poor health care and inadequate education one may receive in this country.
WE are still faced with the reality that we have had more privilege than most of our brothers and sisters who are facing those same realities in Africa.
Unfortunately some of us think falsely that we are inherently better than our indigenous brothers and sisters.
The word minority is a relative term.
We are a minority in this country.
This next presidential election, we will force the country to deal with its negligence regarding the matter of race in our country.
In the last 20 years, we have swept the matter f race under the rug.
It will have to get back on the table!
DO NOT FEAR
No sooner than this text begins, we are thrown into the possibility of despair.
A collective and communal sense of overwhelm based on the mere mathematical realities.
Out numbered.
Out manned.
Out maneuvered
Don’t forget God has already given you signs, wonders, miracles.
You have already been lifted with the mighty hand.
Bread when you are hungry
Water when thirsty
A battle axe in the time of battle
A shelter in the time of storm.
All of this is to say that every desperate and desolate place, God promises, protects This God will never leave or forsake
If God is with us then fear no human.
If you are in the hand of the Creator, no creature can ultimately harm you.
SEE PAUL
Did Jesus not say, “Don’t fear humans who can only destroy your body but the God who has the power to destroy both your bodies and your soul.
This it’s the eternal truth about racism.
It is at its core, the hatred of the Black body, of Black skin.
But such hatred cannot, must not be given the power to break the black soul.
Throughout history, we have proven this time and time again.
Disfigured by physical brutalities _ SEE LEONARD BLACK – But he spirit, the soul still in tact, if fact stronger.
DO NOT WAR
God will fight your battles!
DO NOT BOW DOWN
A distinctive understanding of GOD
Gradual
Step by step, we’ll make this journey
Even though the race seems hard
Step by step, we’ll make this journey
Putting all our trust in God
I will trust in the Lord
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