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>>691301

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>>691287

I'm an African American at that. I do get bouts of pride though so I do need humbling. I just fear I'm going to grow up into a bitter old man who wants segregation of all races. I can't fit into the white british or muslim asian culture here. African American culture is supressed here in my opinion and that makes me angry when I think about it. How unjust it all is. All my friends are white and I've only ever had one black friend who was british when I was a kid but he moved to London a long time ago. I realise you can truly love someone regardless of race but our cultures clash. It's just harder than I ever assumed it was as a kid growing up. I can't say I listen to Tupac or Michael Jackson without being ridiculed and dismissed. It just makes me angry and want to curse and purpetuate a sterotype.

>>691283

>why did God make me black and raise me in a 0.2% black populated town in the north west of england?

You're not going to like this answer but,

>Romans 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

>>691314

>I can't say I listen to Tupac or Michael Jackson without being ridiculed and dismissed.

>1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

>Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Hip hop and music targeting African Americans are used to teach an extended adolescence, homosexuality, defeatism. You can see the early hip hop albums having Freemason hand signs, and buzzwords. Please critically analyses everything you repetitively broadcast into your mind.

>>691387

There are many different Masonic hand shakes. Most look normal but have to do with changes in where the thumb rests on the knuckle.

>>691388

Look at the body language of the man with white pants, under normal interpretation there is no reason for him to part his hair back like that to listen to the boom box.

I recommend watching Hip Hop and the degradation of black masculinity. Even though hes blue pilled, he does expose this well, as along as you remember that Whites don't control freemasonry, he makes some ideological errors, but his analysis of the medium is impressive. Just look for HipHopHiddenHand.wmv there are a few parts.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/lenonhonorfilms.com/*

You'cn take a tigga outta tha hood butcha cain't take tha hood outta a tigga you know what i'm sayin'?

To soften our hearts. "Stiff necked people" and all.

Be consoled, brother. God is always with us.

>>691418

You're right dude. I don't want to have to drop out of college again. I need some qualifications.

>>691389

Too smart in their eyes. I can't fit in when I don't drink, smoke, sex, curse, gossip, lie, cheat or steal.

>>691334

I am a Catholic and not afraid to tell anyone. But believe me when I say there are a handful of young people, if that, I see attending church regularly. Even that is a stretch. Most times I feel like I'm the only young one there, which is ironic.

>>691335

My catholicism comes before anything else. But I do have relatives that live abroad that may or may not be catholic and I have friends who are athiests who I try to convert or at least lead by example. The fact is I live in a secular world. And while I won't deny my religion in the workplace, I do realise that I still have to work and support a family in this world, which God wants. And this can't be done if I live as a monk and my only concern is christianity and I shut out the world. Correct me if this goes against the Church but I don't think it does, we can't fly from society or pretend it doesn't exist. Sorry if I don't make sense. But I will raise my children catholic and do the best I can do but it's up to God how they turn out.

>>691354

The majority of Hip Hop is about degeneracy but so is pop music. I mentioned Tupac because although I like his Ambitisions as a rider and All eyez on me, I enjoy his moral songs like Ghetto Gospel, life goes on, Brenda's got a baby, Keep ya Head up. Maybe not Christian songs but songs with a good moral message. And I think social/political issues are important, not as important as spiritual, but definitley important and something God would want us to care about. Correct me if I'm wrong, but he never taught us to shut our ears to our brothers crying out for help. That is why I like hip hop and rap music by black artists. That is why something inside me has always been attached to African American culture. These are my brothers. Not in Christ but they're as much as my neighbours as my literal white folk neighbours here. And I know people take Our Lord's teachings and twist them to suit their own agenda, but He was a Jew and he must have had some special connection, like I have with my fellow African Americans, to his fellow Jews and their oppression by the Romans. Granted, I feel at home with Jesus Christ. That is how I have survived so far away from my worldly home. And I guess I have to pray now that I no longer yearn for a worldy home I've been so desperate for all my life. Thank you my brothers.

>>691475

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but he never taught us to shut our ears to our brothers crying out for help. That is why I like hip hop and rap music by black artists. That is why something inside me has always been attached to African American culture.

That is well intended, the problem is that what most would call African American culture is just compromised AAC. Like most mainstream institutions and industries.

>These are my brothers.

I'm sure there are some lesser known hip hop artist who are okay, however some pretend to be underground despite coming from multi-national labels like KRS-one. Don't let those in power trick you into thinking this is from you.

>but He was a Jew and he must have had some special connection

The Jews went against Jesus, and the god of the OT, they don't even believe in it in the same way that Christians do.

>>691475

My girlfriend and I fell into the same category, in different parts of the US. It sucks, but if you persevere, God will see it.

>Too smart

Yes and no. Stupid people of any colour are suspicious of people who don't try to identify with them, and being clever makes it harder. To top that, yes–we are discouraged from knowing things at first.

You'll find as you grow up, a greater majority of our peers value the smartest brother in the room. Being judicious with when you let it show is the trick.

No, because you're also mixing in righteousness. Some of the simplest are the most innocent, and tiggas hate that shit. Evil can't abide to be in the same room with good. It just hurts too bad.

So much so that back in the day, they had a man nailed to a tree for telling the truth.

"If they hate you, know that they hated me first."

>Withdraw

Ain't nobody telling you not to work. Or not to be a part of society.

Moreso, Jesus tells us to go out into our communities. Live for the glory of God's name, in every respect. And "Be the lamplight".

Using work as an example, bring your prayers into it. Let God bless your hands as you go about your daily tasks, and don't hesitate to share his involvement if asked.

Otherwise, understand that The Lord leads you to wherever you stand; and let that thought guide you in conversation. You're meant to help those he's placed you around. Evangelize by walking and talking for the glory.

If you feel a family will be part of your life's ministry, don't stress about how you'll create a future for them. You can't, but God will. Follow the path he lays before you, and you'll find everything you need along the way.

Have faith, like you brought your walking stick, but not your wallet.

>Hip hop

Yeah. Everything you hear on the radio is hot garbage. However, you're onto something by applying yourself to 2pac's body of work.

Hip Hop isn't about degeneracy, per-se. It was storytelling. This is what I saw, how I had to live, who I was.

I hate a neoliberal viewpoint, but the least of us happened to be making a living selling drugs. My family grew pot in the 80's, and my mother still sells bootlegs and resells couponed goods to make ends meet.

History is really your friend when perusing your album collection. Or, if you're looking for something wholly conscious, with more modern form, I recommend Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor and Black Star as starting points. Two of the greatest albums ever made.

Kendrick Lamar writes compelling testimony too, but I'm suspicious of some of his work. Like "gold plating" on a cheap chain.

I hope this is helpful, instilling hope ro the future. Suffering builds endurance, and endurance allows for hope. Don't give up.

>>691849

I have my mum and my little half brother. My dad was white. All my relatives are in america. I'm here cause my mum decided to move here where my step dad lives.

>>691738

Enrolled in a barber course since I'm not academic and need a skill to find work. I am bottom of the barrel in terms of society here. Have to basically act like a degenerate to fit in among white folks because that's their predjudice. I've been told by a counciller that her first impression of me was that i was intimidating, tough, aggressive type of person. Just because I'm tall and black. Whenever someone has their back to me, or there's money lying around, I just feel the tension. I've had people try to take my faith away from me. As far back as the age of 14, I had a plan to join the US marines and then go uni because it gave me the opportunity to join a brotherhood but also live in the US, but that dream was obliterated. I definitely know God wants me to stay here. God has blessed me with a loving family, good health and an inheritence.If my dad was still alive I would be in America since he lived there. So I am certain God wants me here. For what though?

>>691993

I agree that we must be apart of society and our social life is important to God. And I do agree that we can't pick and choose our culture.

But I disagree that all races cannot coexist peacefully. Malcom X, in his autobiography, shares a beautiful experience in Mecca, where men of all races, from the whitest of white to the darkest shade of black, all living as one brotherhood. It is possible but our current society prohibits one. And who runs society? White people. Now don't sit there and give me yet another lecture about being black like you have any idea of what it is. You know how psycologically damaging it is for a kid to be told day in and out that he is a tigger? And then you wonder why these young black kids are out perpetuating the stereotype. I was saved by Christ. Not by white people or their culture.

>t. African American who had to sit at sixth form being lectured about Civil rights from a white teacher, while being surrounded by white and asian teenagers who don't care.

But I know I sound like I'm whining and I that is bad. But to shut up about it and accept it is not the christian way. We are to speak out about injustice and hope and pray for a better society. The race blind utopia is possible. Just not in our lifetime. I by no means support white liberalism. To qoute Malcom X, They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. "

"There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers' solidarity until there is first some racial solidarity. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves. " The white liberals don't want this, hence the fact that we aren't taught black history in schools. We are taught very briefly on slavery, yet extensively on how many wives Henry VIII had. All to justify the fact that our tax is spent on keeping the royal family in luxary. I was never taught about Malcom X in school. Never taught anything except that we were sold and enslaved. All to reinforce the white superiority.

I am a catholic thick and thin. But to ignore racial prejudice and dismiss it as "Da wypipo…" is like dismissing the Jews in 1940 as "Da Nazis be dabbing on me".

What's your answer to the Catholics being persecuted by the muslims in Africa? "Da muslims be dabbing on me"?

Society is just contradicting. You preach multiculturalism but you really mean white culture. Then be honest. At least your honest.