PASTOR GILBERT, SR. (my dad) preaching at a middle school's Father & Son event. Masterful!!!!!

7/21/2013 SAVING OUR BLACK BOYS IN AMERICA MATTHEW 2:16-18 MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS BASED ON THE TRAYVON MARTIN KILLING, I LIFT UP THIS TOPIC OF INTEREST. WE WOULD THINK AND CERTAINLY THOSE WHO LIVED THROUGH SLAVERY, AND WE WHO LIVED THROUGH JIM CROWISM HAD HOPED THAT RAGING RACISM WOULD BE A THING OF THE PAST. IT WAS A PART OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DREAM. BUT HERE WE ARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY STILL DEALING WITH RACISM. JIM CROW MIGHT HAVE DIED, BUT WE ARE NOW DEALING WITH JAMES ESQUIRE CROW, JIM’S SON. I PRESCRIBE TO YOU THAT SAVING OUR BLACK BOYS IN AMERICA OUGHT TO BE OUR TOP PRIORITY. IT’S AN ISSUE THAT WE DON’T LIKE TO DISCUSS, BUT IT’S AN ISSUE WE MUST DISCUSS. AND WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT SATAN IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE KILLING OF OUR BLACK BOYS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT AS A FACT. BUT WE MUST ALSO UNDER-STAND THAT THERE IS A SYSTEM AT WORK TO PROMOTE THE DEVIL’S SCHEME. AND WHAT HAPPENED TO TRAYVON IS NOTHING NEW. EVEN IN EXODUS CHAPTER 1, WHEN THE EGYPTIANS SAW THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL, AND HAD INCREASED ABUNDANTLY IN NUMBERS, AND GREW EXCEEDINGLY STRONG, AND THE LAND WAS FULL OF THEM. THE NEW KING CALLED A MEETING AND SAID, “BEHOLD, THE ISRALITES ARE TOO MANY AND TOO MIGHTY FOR US [AND THEY OUTNUMBER US BOTH IN PEOPLE AND IN STRENGTH]. COME, LET US DEAL SHRWDLY WITH THEM, LEST THEY MULTIPLY MORE AND, SHOULD WAR BEFALL US, AND THEY JOIN OUR ENEMIES, AND FIGHT AGAINST US, AND PUT US OUT OF OUR LAND.” AND THEN HERE, HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER, ANOTHER KING, HEROD, BECAUSE HE FEARED HE WOULD LOST HIS POWER OVER THE LAND, SENT OUT A DECREE TO KILL ALL THE MALE CHILDREN IN BETHLEHEM AND IN ALL THAT TERRITORY WHO WERE TWO YEARS OLD AND UNDER.. HIS ATTEMPT WAS DESIGNED TO KILL THE CHILD THAT HE HEARD WAS BORN TO BE KING OF THE JEWS. AND SATAN THROUGH WHITE MALE POWERBROKERS ARE STILL KILLING OUR BLACK BOYS. AND THIS CONSPIRACY IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. OUR YOUNG BLACK MALES HAVE BECOME AN ENDANGERED SPECIES. AND WE NEED TO OPEN OUR EYES AND SEE THAT IT’S HAPPENING IN THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, THE JUDICAL SYSTEM, OUR SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. IT HAPPENS AS OUR YOUNG SONS, BROTHERS, NEPHEWS, AND GRAND-SONS ENTER SCHOOLS; FOR IT IS IN SCHOOL THAT THEY COME TO BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN’T ACHIEVE. OUR YOUNG BLACK BOYS ARE TOLD THAT THEY TALK TOO MUCH, THAT THEY ARE TOO ACTIVE, AND THAT THEY ASK TOO MANY QUESTIONS. TOO MANY OF THEM ARE PLACED IN SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS OR GIVEN DRUGS, SUCH AS RITALIN, UNDER THE DEGUISE OF TRYING TO KEEP THEM FOCUSED AND KEEP THEM ON TASK. THE TEACHERS DON’T WANT TO DEAL WITH THEM IN THE CLASSROOMS, SO IF THEY “TALK TOO MUCH”, THEY ARE SENT TO THE OFFICE AND TAGGED AS TROUBLE MAKERS. SO BY THE TIME MANY OF OUR BLACK BOYS LEAVE ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL, THEY HAVE DROPPED OUT MENTALLY AND HAVE LOST THEIR SENSE OF PRIDE AND PURPOSE. AND WHEN WE READS THE STORY OF THE HEROD FAMILY, ONE WOULD THINK THAT THEY WERE REALLY MURDERERS. LET LOOK AT HEROD’S CRIME. HISTORIANS SHOW HEROD AS BEING GLOOMY AND CRANKY IN HIS LATER DAYS AND CAPABLE OF ALMOST ANY CRUELTY. HE WAS VERY WICKED. AND HE HAD COME FROM A FAMILY OF WICKEDNESS. HEROD AND JUDAS ARE NAMES THAT MAKE US SHUDDER, AND WE THINK OF THEIR OWNERS AS HALF-DEMONS. YET THE WICKEDNESS OF HEROD CONTINUES IS IN OUR OWN DAY. THE SLOW AND HIDEOUS MURDER OF YOUNG INNOCENT CHILDREN BY STARVATION AND NEGLECT, AND ILL-TREATMENT, FOR GAIN IS NO WORSE THAN WHAT HEROD DID. WE FAIL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN OUR LAWMAKERS CUT SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO HELP THE POOR AMONG US, THAT IS CRIMINAL; THAT’S UNGODLY. THEY MAKE A LOT OF FUSS ABOUT ABORTION, BUT YET, THEY WILL KILL THEM AFTER THEY ARE BORN AND SAY NOTHING. NOT ALLOWING A CHILD TO BE ABLE TO GET AN AFFORDABLE EDUCATION IS WICKED. NOT ALLOWING A FATHER OR MOTHER TO MAKE “LIVING WAGES” IS WICKED. IF A FATHER OR MOTHER CAN’T AFFORD TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLES, CLOTHES ON THEIR CHILDREN’S BACKS, AND A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS; YOU MIGHT AS WELL KILL THEM BEFORE THEY ARE BORN. THERE IS SIGNIFICANT WAYS IN WHICH ONE CAN KILL A YOUNG BLACK BOY. I LIKE THE MOVIE ENTITLED, THE SCENT OF WOMAN. IN THAT MOVIE, AL PACINO SPEAKS UP AT A PRESTIGEOUS PRACTICE SCHOOL. HIS FRIEND CHARLIE IS ACCUSED OF VIOLATING A SCHOOL PRINCIPLE AND THE SCHOOL MASTER WANTS TO TAKE CHARLIE’S SCHOLARSHIP AWAY FROM HIM AND SEND HIM HOME. AT THE SAME TIME HE WANTS TO PROTECT CHARLIE’S RICH FRIENDS. AL PACINO SAYS TO THE SCHOOL MASTER, YOU WANT TO KILL CHARLIE WHILE GEORGE JR. HIDES IN THE POCKETS OF BIG GEORGE. AL PACINO WENT ON TO SAY, YOU WANT TO SAVE GEORGE WHILE YOU KILL CHARLIE. AL PACINO BEING A RETIRED COLONEL STATED THAT HE HAD SERVED IN THE MARINES AND HE HAD WITNESSED YOUNG BOYS WHO HAD LOST THEIR LEGS AND THEIR ARMS IN COMBAT. BUT HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN AN AMBUTIATED SPIRIT. WELL, WHAT YOU MUST UNDER-STAND, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO KILL SOMEBODY. YOU CAN DO IT WITH WEAPONS; YOU CAN DO IT WITH WORDS; YOU CAN DO IT THROUGH WAR; YOU CAN DO IT THROUGH INSTILLING WORTHLESSNESS; YOU CAN DO IT THROUGH WELFAR; AND YOU CAN DO IT THROUGH A DEPLETED WORKFORCE. THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF WAYS THAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE THE SAME END. AND THE EASIEST WAY TO KILL SOMEONE IS TO TAKE AWAY THAT PERSON’S SPIRIT, IDENTITY, VISION, DREAMS, AND PURPOSE. PARENTS, MURDERS SUCH AS THESE TAKE PLACE USING PSYCHO-LOGICAL WEAPONS --- IT’S ANOTHER WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION. PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPONS ARE BEING MANUFACTURED IN AMERICA AND ARE BEING USED TO DESTROY THE YOUNG BLACK BOYS WHO HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO LIVE. STEREO- TYPES, DISCRIMINATION, RACISM, PREDJUDICE, AND LOW EXPECTATIONS DEVASTATE BLACK MALES EVERY-WHERE --- PERHAPS MORE THAN GUNS AND DRUGS. HERE AT HOLY TRINITY I TRY TO ENCOURAGE OUR TEACHERS TO HANG IN THERE WITH THESE BOYS. I KNOW IT’S NOT EASY, BUT SOME-BODY HAS TO LOVE THEM, AND HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN ACHIEVE. I MADE UP IN MY MIND A LONG TIME AGO, I CAN NOT GIVE UP ON MY CHILDREN. MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IT HURTS ME TO SEE OUR CHILDREN WALKING UP AND DOWN THE STREETS LIKE ZOMBIES. A ZOMBIE IS THE WALKING DEAD. A ZOMBIE IS SOMEONE WHO IS LOST, MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. ZOMBIES CAN’T THINK FOR THEMSELVES; THEY CAN’T ACT FOR THEMSELVES; THEY ARE EASILY MANIPULATED AND CONTROLLED BY THE PERSON WHO HAS MADE THEM A ZOMBIE. AND THIS DESTRUCTIVE PRACTICE IS BEING CARRIED OUT IN THE SAME WAY IT WAS CARRIED OUT IN ANCIENT PALESTINE, WHERE JESUS WAS BORN. THE SECOND THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS, THE CHILDREN’S FATE. AFTER HEARING FROM THE WISE MEN THAT A BABY WAS BORN WHO THE PROPHETS HAD SAID WOULD GROW UP AND BE KING OF THE JEWS, HEROD GOT ANGRY AND SAID, LET’S KILL THE BABY BOYS. WHAT A HIDE-OUS THING TO DO. AND WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS DESTRUCTION IS SOME-TIMES DONE SUBLIMINALLY OR COVERTLY. OUR SONS DO NOT SEE MANY POSITIVE IMAGES OF THEM-SELVES IN TEXTBOOKS AND ACADEMIC SETTINGS. THIS IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN SPEND THIRTEEN YEARS IN SCHOOL FOR 180 DAYS A YEAR. HOW MANY HOURS DO THEY SPEND LEARNING ABOUT THEIR BLACK HERITAGE? HOW MANY HOURS DO THEY SPEND LEARNING ABOUT BLACK MALES WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL? THIRTEEN YEARS IS A LOT OF TIME TO EDUCATE OR AS CARTER G. WOODSON SAID, “TO MISEDUCATE.” THIRTEEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO INSTILL DREAMS OR TO STEAL DREAMS. THIRTEEN YEARS IS A LONG TIME TO ASSIST IN SOMEONE’S GROWTH OR TO ASSIST IN SOMEONE’S DEATH. WE ALL FROWN AND DESPISE “DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS.” BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME DISDAIN FOR “DRIVE-BY TEACHING.” DRIVE-BY TEACHING HAVE TO DO WITH TEACHERS WHO DRIVE INTO DEPRESSED NEIGHBORHOODS, SPEND VERY LITTLE TIME IN THE COMMUN-ITY WHERE THE CHILDREN THEY TEACH LIVE. THEY USUALLY KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE CHILDREN AND ARE IN A REAL SENSE STRANGERS TO WHOM THEY HAVE LITTLE ALLEGIANCE, LITTLE COMMITMENT, OR LITTLE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. DRIVE-BY TEACHING IS JUST AS DEADLY AS DRIVE-BY SHOOTING. WE MUST DEMAND THAT THE HISTORY BOOKS IN AMERICA REFLECT OUR STORY AND NOT JUST HIS STORY. WE ARE MORE IN AMERICAN HISTORY THAN SLAVES AND INDENTURED SERVANTS. WE NEED MORE THAN A SNAPSHOOT OF EGYPT IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS. AND WE MUST TEACH THEM THAT EGYPT IS NOT A COUNTRY WITHIN ITSELF, BUT EGYPT IS IN AFRICA. AND I APPEAL TO WOMEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE DEVIL WANTS TO DESTROY OUR YOUNG BOYS BECAUSE HE KNOWS IF YOU DESTROY THE SEED, YOU HAVE THE RACE AND YOU HAVE THE PEOPLE. WE CAN’T REPRODUCE WITHOUT THE SEED AND THAT SEED IS FOUND IN OUR SONS. IF OUR YOUNG BLACK BOYS ARE KILLED BEFORE THEY GROW OLD, THEN ULTIMATELY, THE EXISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS WILL CEASE. I BEG YOU TO LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NATIVE AMERI-CANS. THEY WERE KILLED. THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF INDIANS WERE KILLED AND NOW THEY ARE ALMOST NONE IN EXISTENCE. THEY ARE NO THREAT TO THE WHITE MAN. WE CAN’T ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN TO US. AND THEY WILL TELL YOU EVERY TIME, DON’T MAKE IT A RACE ISSUE. THAT’S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE TRAYVON MARTIN MURDER --- DON’T MAKE IT A RACE ISSUE. BUT WAS PLAYED A LARGE FACTOR IN GEORGE ZIMMERMAN KILLING TRAYVON. RACE PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE JURY FINDING HIM NOT GUILTY. WELL, LET ME CLOSE THIS FEEBLE MESSAGE OF MINE. I WANT TO CLOSE BY TALKING ABOUT, THE DIVINE DESTINY. THE MURDER OF THE CHILDREN AT BETHLEHEM WAS FORESEEN BY GOD. IT ACCOMPLISHED AN ANCIENT PROPHECY. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOD ORDERED IT, BUT IT SHOWS THAT IT COULD NOT FRUSTRATE GOD’S PURPOSE --- A PURPOSE WHICH WERE LAID DOWN IN FULL KNOW-LEDGE OF HEROD’S WICKED ATTEMPT TO GET RID OF JEWISH BABY BOYS THAT MIGHT RISE UP TO BE KING. NOTHING CAN ULTIMATELY FRUST-RATE GOD’S GREAT DESIGNS. IF WHITES COULD HAVE HAD THEIR WAY, THERE IS NO WAY IN THE WORLD THAT WE WOULD HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT IN A WHITE HOUSE. AND I KNOW, EVERY TIME I SAY THAT, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF BLACKS WHO ARE QUICK TO SAY, BUT WHITES HAD TO VOTE FOR HIM IN ORDER FOR HIM TO GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. AND TO THAT I SAY, SURE YOU’RE RIGHT. IT WAS IN GOD’S PURPOSE. AND I’M SURE A LOT OF WHITES WAKE UP THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION SAYING, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. AND A LOT OF WHITE WOMEN FOOLED THEIR WHITE HUSBANDS AND TOLD THEM THEY WOULD NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA, BUT WHEN THEY CLOSED THAT CURTAIN, THEY VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA. SO HEROD WAS DOOMED TO FAIL. HIS EFFORT TO DESTROY JESUS WAS USELESS. CHRIST CAME TO BE A CONQUEROR. AND HE WILL WIN THE VICTORY IN SPITE OF HIS ENEMIES AND FOES. THE FIRST HEROD WAS NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH HIM WHEN IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO GOD’S PLAN THAT HE SHOULD LIVE. AND THE SECOND HEROD WAS PERMITTED TO HAVE A HAND IN HIS DEATH, BUT ONLY WHEN HIS TIME HAD COME, AND WHEN THE DIVINE DESTINY WAS FULFILLED. SO WE READ IN VERSES 19 AND 20: “BUT WHEN HEROD WAS DEAD, BEHOLD, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED IN A DREAM TO JOSEPH IN EGYPT, SAYING, ARISE, AND TAKE THE YOUNG CHILD AND HIS MOTHER, AND GO INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL: FOR THEY ARE DEAD WHICH SOUGHT THE YOUNG CHILD’S LIFE.” ALTHOUGH WE LIVE IN A LAND AND A SOCIETY THAT WANTS TO DESTROY OUR YOUNG BLACK BOYS; I’M GLAD WE SERVE A GOD THAT WANTS THEM TO LIVE. WE SERVE A GOD THAT WILL PROTECT THEM. WE SERVE A GOD WHO WILL KEEP THEM. WE SERVE A GOD WHO WILL WALK WITH THEM AND HE WILL TALK WITH THEM. WE SERVE A GOD THAT EVEN THOUGH OUR SOCIETY WANTS TO PROFIT OFF OF THEM AND DESTROY THEM THROUGH PSYCHOLOGIAL MEANS, ---- HE WILL NOT LEAVE THEM OR FORSAKE THEM. -- Rev. George C. Gilbert, Jr. Holy Trinity United Baptist Church 4504 Gault Place, N.E. 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