Do you think it’s a coincidence that our nation’s leaders are having discussions about reparations for the descendants of slaves? If you remember, a few years ago, they passed House Resolution 1242 to commemorate the 400th year anniversary of when the slaves were brought to the United States – August of 2019 made 400 years. I’m going to show you that something else is at the root of all of this. We’re going to take a look at our past so that we can see how it is now impacting our future.
Let me start by telling you how I got started on this journey. I started a few years ago after the rash of police shootings we had. those shootings stirred up a lot of emotions – they were all hard but there were two that really touched me to the core:
- First, the shooting of Tamir Rice – the little boy who was playing in the park with the toy gun when someone called the police to say a man was out there pointing a gun at People. When the cops arrived, within seconds this little boy was shot and killed.
- The second one was the shooting of Philando Castile – because it seemed like this man tried to do everything right and he still got shot. I remember watching the video and listening to the anguish in his girlfriend’s voice as she was pleading with the police officer and she wasn’t allowed to move her hands from the dashboard and she basically had to sit there and watch him die.
These incidents caused me to cry out for our people. I started praying and I was saying, “God why does this keep happening to us? Why are we hated all around the world because of a color that you made us? We didn’t make ourselves this color and we can’t change it. God are we cursed”? Those words just poured out of me but strangely it seemed as though that was the question he wanted me to ask: “are we cursed’. I received the answer that very week. And so this journey started – I mean I have been researching and studying like never before. I can tell you that the truth has been hidden in plain sight but for me it all began with a question.
Why does our history only go back to the 16th and the 17th century? Why don’t we know our true history? Is it because we’re not asking the right questions? We didn’t know because we relied on the history books and commentators and movies like Roots to help us put the pieces of the puzzle together. Negroes were given a history that is not their own. The history books are not telling the truth about our history. We ended up with half-truths and in some cases, we ended up with outright lies. We have to go back and dig deeper and begin asking the right questions. We can’t just rely on the textbooks because did you know that the history books are not even reviewed. Therefore, the textbooks are repeating errors year after year that go all the way back to the 1800s. Yet we’re relying on these books to tell us who we are as a people.
I’m actually going to briefly show you some other half-truths and lies using the chart taken from the Table of Nations in the book of Genesis 10. From the three sons of Noah, the earth was repopulated after the flood. Noah and his wife. their three sons (Japheth, Ham, and Shem) and then the wives of these three sons survived the flood. The nation of Israel comes through the line of Shem down through Eber and then Peleg through Abram (whose name was changed to Abraham) then Isaac, Jacob and then we have the Nation of Israel (the 12 Tribes). Next, we have Ham and this is where one of the big lies came from – it’s called “the Curse of Ham”. We were told that all of the Black races were cursed because Noah cursed Ham. That is a lie – it is not true. The curse was placed on Canaan, Noah’s grandson. Noah did not curse Ham.
Let’s deal with another lie. We’re told that Mizraim or Egypt, are descended from the white race – that Egyptians are white. You can’t have it both ways. If you’re saying that Ham is the father of all of the Black races how can Mizraim or Egypt then be white? What you’re saying is Ham had four sons: three were black but one of them is white. What I’m challenging you to do right here is to actually believe the Scriptures because it’s actually showing these four sons had the same mother and father, so they were all people of color. Egypt – the Egyptians – could not have been white. They painted themselves to show us what they look like and yes a lot of those pictures have been whitewashed to make us believe something different than what the Bible is actually showing us.
The Most High is putting the pieces of the puzzle together for us so that we can identify our true history. The awakening is happening and this is not a coincidence as we need to know who we are as a people. Learn more in this accompanying video, True People of the Book #1 | You Are Not Who You Think You Are.
