Brother Soe, I don't know if it is be design or not, but I agree with what you are stating about some of us demonstrating a black superiority/anti European mindset. And I believe that is very harmful. That is a good way to weaken our reasonings. We all have to be at the table, reasoning together, black and white.
But there are some issues that as black people, we continue to face that a white bredren will not face. At least that is the way it is in the USA. Still I would hope that we are loving enough to embrace all our bredren even as we voice our disappointments due to the way we have been treated in Babylon. Let us be better than Babylon. That is what I believe Jah's children come to this forum hoping for... a people who are different than Babylon because of Jah's influence in their lives.
A case in point is Matthew. I can't get him out of my mind. As I followed his reasonings, I often noticed that bredren seemed to be unaccepting of his place at the reasoning table. One day, I felt Matthew's frustration in the way he reasoned and I asked him if he was a white man. Low and behold, it turned out that he was a white man.
But the way he was treated was so obviously discriminatory that without ever meeting him face to face, just by the way he was being treated, it called to my mind that Matthew was white. So we reasoned a bit about the way he was being treated, and next thing I know, Matthew was writing us a "dear john" letter and bowing out.
I was saddened by his departure.
I pray we do not have any more incidents on any thread of this forum that makes children who are coming in search of the truth feel like they are not wanted.
One Love...
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