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Woebeit I believe in just about everything, e.g., extraterrestrial life polluting the cosmos, parallel universes, time travel, Voodoo (who-do faith healing), evolution and, for sure, intelligent design by an almighty creator. Yet, I’ve often had cause to pause and ponder if an intelligent God designed this messed up world, or did his creation simply evolve into the monsters that humankind has become. Crisis of faith notwithstanding, often at times kids with curious minds, that just want to know, can get all messed up when they try to pick up something that’s too heavy for them to deal with. For sure, people are cracking, instead of facting when they encourage kids to be the best that they can be.
Square business, adults are really telling kids to strive for excellence, but don’t get better than me. Hey, I found that out the hard way (at Ann Taylor’s Pre-school in 1940’s Houston, Texas’ Fifth Ward), while reading Jack & The Beanstalk. In hindsight, I realized why a teacher that was mandated to make Jack the hero, would resent a smart mouth, five- year -old urchin telling her that he was a bad boy. Miseducation aside, my reluctance to never take a leap of faith without investigating first can be traced back to teachers’ zero tolerance for kids who think out of the box.
Then again, even the adults that I once unconditionally respected became suspects because of my home schooling grandpa. Rev. William Paul Fonteno actually whopped my brother and I with his razor’s strap, if we failed to grasp the concept of his teaching.
On the other hand, he told us to never disagree with dumb grown folks, no matter how wrong they were. Hey, you might as well turn The Twilight Zone theme off, because I’m sho’ nuff going somewhere with this. Neverthe-less, I shouldn’t dwell in the past when I have recruits to evaluate. Okay, let’s see if you qualify by interpreting, “My people are de-stroyed for lack of knowledge,” as cited in Hosea 4:6. You do know that’s really a universal concept that exists in other religions’ bibles don’t you? Even so, theologians break it down thusly: “Some things seem to slip into society and become so ingrained in our lifestyle they become acceptable. An example is the old saying ‘what somebody does not know, will not hurt him.’ We have said or heard it so much it seems natural. The Lord, however, has other ideas.
“The Lord's concern about our lack of knowledge is multi-directional. It's an indictment against those called to teach for failing to do their job and a dressing down of the people for not knowing the Word. God wants His pulpits to be filled by preachers and teachers who are willing to replace some of those ‘happy ears’ messages with hard-hitting truths. People who profess to be called of God must stop storing spiritual knowledge in their minds and, then, sharing it with a chosen few.” Shazam! That bolt of lighting should zap a whole bunch of Black journalist. Meanwhile, the theological wisdom concludes, “People's minds are being tormented by ungodly thoughts and, without knowledge about how to deal with them, those thoughts can cause questionable behavior. In a sense, the ole' ‘what somebody does not know, will not hurt him’ is true.
“It will do more than hurt him.
It will destroy him. It will put him into captivity.” Translation: Our kids are being destroyed, because well-educated Black folks (that ideally are their watchers on the wall) allow the mass media to persistently mess up their heads with misinformation, propaganda, and invalid data, under the guise of education. Hark! I’m venturing into The Outer Limits of naming, blaming, and shaming, but I’m still declaring war on communicators that refuse to share their knowledge in spirit and truth. And that’s a promise. Incidentally, I later named, blamed, and shamed that brain dead pre-school teacher in an Eyeview that explained that Jack not only burglarized the giant’s house, but also stole his stuff and then murdered him when he chopped that beanstalk down.
Self-defense aside, D.A. Chuck Rosenthal could’ve made a strong argument for “murder one,” because Jack caused the giant’s death while committing a crime. Especially if Jack was Black (or his name translated to “Gato” in Spanish) and the giant was a big White dude. I wonder if anybody knows where I’m coming from?