As a response to the question of love, again please take my words with a grain of salt, but love is relative to our understanding of oneness. In our minds we grapple with the idea of preaching love while having enemies. And I have read some misunderstandings of the concept of black power that remind me of the misunderstanding made media protests of Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter never said that white lives don't. The idea that they were saying this came from fear expressed in the form of racial insensitivity and ambivalence. In a way people were saying your lives don't matter more than mine but it came out as a disrespectful reproach and contentious denial of the intent, purpose, and spirit of Black Lives Matter. They said All Lives Matter as if it had an opposing intent. Meanwhile All Lives Matter is not an organization that helps or saves anyone. Instead it seems to pervert the call for justice while defending the status quo of police departments serving whites more than minorities.
The things we call black... black lives, black supremacy, black pride, black panther... these things are only anti-white if you accept the premise that black people want revenge for the crimes against our humanity by seeking to return the favor stripe for stripe. But that logic is unsound for the simple fact that we couldn't be mad and develop a movement for liberation against a hostile oppressor if we had the same desire to become that hostile oppressor. We're not interested in becoming the devil. We only seek to return humanity back to the balance where we are truly equals. And that's not going to come from the agenda of white supremacy. And All Lives Matter isn't going to stop white supremacy.
Yeshua/Jesus said that is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle (not an english "needle" but rather a very small city gate) than for a rich man to enter into heaven. This is because the rich man doesn't NEED it as much and it (salvation) may actually cost him his wealth. Yeshua told the rich young ruler to give everything he had to the poor and he couldn't do it. So can the white man ("the" white man does not mean all whites but rather a tokenization of white privilege) who views America as his manifest destiny, who fears being replaced and displaced by Jews and other minorities, can THIS man give up his wealth in order to provide universal healthcare (for example) to the poor who are dying without? No, he cannot do it, because he has the power but not the moral fortitude to go so far against his own self interest.
So what is love in this scenario? Is love holding hands with the rich man who turns his back on the poor? Or is love rebuking that man and telling him what he must do to obtain eternal life? And if the rich man is shooting at the poor man, would love stand back and watch, knowing that the rich man has the advantage? Fighting.... fighting for equal rights and justice isn't simply love for the poor man who needs it but love for mankind. Blessed are the poor because the rich are hard to save because they're more likely to be corrupted by it. Fighting for humanity takes different shapes and forms but it is ultimately an act of love. To save a patient from a virus you don't defend the virus. In America almost everything is owned by 1-2% of the population. I'm not advocating against their survival but clearly the interest of 1-2% do not outweigh the rest. Rasta is important in this because its influence on the mind is like the anti-bodies to the virus. By accepting Rasta you're accepting a standard of righteousness that pushes against the dark influence of those who oppose love.
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