I Truly Know And Have Learned The Difference From Kentucky And California.The Blacks,Here in Kentucky Compared To Blacks In California,There is Apparently Much More Extensive DAMAGE !!!!. This is Because IN This State The Emancipation Act Was Rejected And UnAccepted In 1865.It Became Official March 1976. A Hundred And Eleven Years,After 1865. A Confederate State Severely Practiced in Certain Areas Of Louisville Ky. So Control and Challenged Civil Rights,To Maintain Supremacy,Creating A Controlled Slave Mentalitied Black....Very Angry.. But Ignorant to Steps Needed.To Organize to Progress Advance or keep up with Blacks in Other Progressive States. Slave Mentalities, So Much More Damage The Educational Systems Ragedy And Poor Full Of Systemic Deprevation, A Hopelessness Yet A Normal Way of Life.Anything Other Than The Everyday Obstacles Alien. This Familiarity Much More Accepted.With Racism Leading The Way..The Present day Attitude From Blacks Only Dark Skin is Considered Black.Henceforth Profiling Color of Skin is Utilized A Common Practice..This Attitude is Also Accepted In Whites.. This Being Completely Alien To Me.Experiencing The Civil Rights Movement,The Riots Of The 60's The Black Panther Party in Black Neighborhoods,Muslims And The Im'Black And I'm Proud Movement.The Political Power And Unity of The Black Community Which Was Taught To Me Growing up In California..Knowing My Civil,My Individual, And Personal Rights This Was A Way Of Life..Especially Taught Within My Family.Striving For Self Improvement Thru Education And Opportunities Promoted in Our Black Communities.Maintaining A Christian Religious Foundation..Sometimes A Need To Distinguish and Separate Ones Self,From The Stigmatism Catogorical Limits Placed Which A Church Background And Foundation,Fought And Combatted,These Problems.. Really Find it Exhausting To Still Find Black People That Promote And Practice Limiting Each Other,That Hint Of Massa Control Still At Work.. Here's A Prime Example..I Attempted To Attend A Senior Training Program..Nothing To Beat The System Or Get Over.This Training Program Paid $7.25. An Hour.The Requirements An State I.D Social Security Number,Normal Stuff To Prove Residency A Utility Bill With Your Address,A Copy Of Your Rental Lease,And If You Own A Home A Copy Of The Deed To Your Home.I Asked Why?? The Answer Given You May Need Repairs.My First Thought Was.A Person Can Steal A Home Filing False Documents.Using The Copy of A Deed..I Mean Damn It Just Seemed To Risky And Oh So Stupid..Remembering How Corrupt The Governmental System is Here in Kentucky...Full Of Tokenism It Is A Confederate State....Losing My Home For A $7.25 Training Program A Federal Senior Job Program,At That...The Hustle The Agency Received Federal Funds For This Program.So Money is Allotted For Each Attendee. With Priority Given To Individuals That Are Homeless And Needy..No Big Advantage For Me So I Said No Thank-You.. I Took My Behind Home...Securring My Home Deed..Okay!!!!Not Worth It....Another Exhausting Fact..Opportunities To Become A Home Owner.It's Not Readily Known Amongst The Black Community or Educational Opportunities Offered They're Not Used..Or It's Unknown..I've Heard Some Whites Exclaim In Wonder..With Some of The Dark Skinned Blacks in A Stupor Of Sheer Ignorance.. There Are Opportunities Offered To Improve Ones Circumstances,That Either is Unknown or Not Sought After. There's Racial Profiling,Profiling Color of Skin.Within The Blacks With Other Races With Their Opinions..My Answer to Them...What do You Know About Being Black,In America,Or The History Of Blacks In Slavery The Oppression,Jim Crow,Lynchings,Burnt Mutilated Bodies,Black Women Having To Be The Head of The House,Being Maids..Or Work Picking Cotton Because Black Men Couldn't Find Work... But The Most Disgusting Fact And Yet so True.. Still Keeping Each Other Down,Because Of The Color of Skin, As If Blacks Are Just Dark Skinned Instead Of Diverse In Shades Of Black..Black on Black Hate,Dysfunctional Households From Drug Use or Incarceration,Food Insecurity. Incapable Of Accepting Each Other.What Do You Know About Being A Black Man.Or Raising Black Children in The Brunt of Racism,Due to Poorly Funded Schools or Being A Black Woman Raising Children,A Black Single Mom..
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The wise men's search after Christ. (1-8) The wise men worship Jesus. (9-12) Jesus carried into Egypt. (13-15) Herod causes the infants of Bethlehem to be massacred. (16-18) Death of Herod, Jesus brought to Nazareth. (19-23)1-8 Those who live at the greatest distance from the means of grace often use most diligence, and learn to know the most of Christ and his salvation. But no curious arts, or mere human learning, can direct men unto him. We must learn of Christ by attending to the word of God, as a light that shineth in a dark place, and by seeking the teaching of the Holy Spirit. And those in whose hearts the day-star is risen, to give them any thing of the knowledge of Christ, make it their business to worship him. Though Herod was very old, and never had shown affection for his family, and was not himself likely to live till a new-born infant had grown up to manhood, he began to be troubled with the dread of a rival. He understood not the spiritual nature of the Messiah's kingdom. Let us beware of a dead faith. A man may be persuaded of many truths, and yet may hate them, because they interfere with his ambition, or sinful indulgences. Such a belief will make him uneasy, and the more resolved to oppose the truth and the cause of God; and he may be foolish enough to hope for success therein.
9-12 What joy these wise men felt upon this sight of the star, none know so well as those who, after a long and melancholy night of temptation and desertion, under the power of a spirit of bondage, at length receive the Spirit of adoption, witnessing with their spirits that they are the children of God. We may well think what a disappointment it was to them, when they found a cottage was his palace, and his own poor mother the only attendant he had. However, these wise men did not think themselves baffled; but having found the King they sought, they presented their gifts to him. The humble inquirer after Christ will not be stumbled at finding him and his disciples in obscure cottages, after having in vain sought them in palaces and populous cities. Is a soul busy, seeking after Christ? Would it worship him, and does it say, Alas! I am a foolish and poor creature, and have nothing to offer? Nothing! Hast thou not a heart, though unworthy of him, dark, hard, and foul? Give it to him as it is, and be willing that he use and dispose of it as it pleases him; he will take it, and will make it better, and thou shalt never repent having given it to him. He shall frame it to his own likeness, and will give thee himself, and be thine for ever. The gifts the wise men presented were gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Providence sent these as a seasonable relief to Joseph and Mary in their present poor condition. Thus our heavenly Father, who knows what his children need, uses some as stewards to supply the wants of others, and can provide for them, even from the ends of the earth.
13-15 Egypt had been a house of bondage to Israel, and particularly cruel to the infants of Israel; yet it is to be a place of refuge to the holy Child Jesus. God, when he pleases, can make the worst of places serve the best of purposes. This was a trial of the faith of Joseph and Mary. But their faith, being tried, was found firm. If we and our infants are at any time in trouble, let us remember the straits in which Christ was when an infant. #16-18| Herod killed all the male children, not only in Bethlehem, but in all the villages of that city. Unbridled wrath, armed with an unlawful power, often carries men to absurd cruelties. It was no unrighteous thing with God to permit this; every life is forfeited to his justice as soon as it begins. The diseases and deaths of little children are proofs of original sin. But the murder of these infants was their martyrdom. How early did persecution against Christ and his kingdom begin! Herod now thought that he had baffled the Old Testament prophecies, and the efforts of the wise men in finding Christ; but whatever crafty, cruel devices are in men's hearts, the counsel of the Lord shall stand.
19-23 Egypt may serve to sojourn in, or take shelter in, for awhile, but not to abide in. Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, to them he must return. Did we but look upon the world as our Egypt, the place of our bondage and banishment, and heaven only as our Canaan, our home, our rest, we should as readily arise and depart thither, when we are called for, as Joseph did out of Egypt. The family must settle in Galilee. Nazareth was a place held in bad esteem, and Christ was crucified with this accusation, Jesus the Nazarene. Wherever Providence allots the bounds of our habitation, we must expect to share the reproach of Christ; yet we may glory in being called by his name, sure that if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.
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