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(Apropos of “By Whatever Means Necessary”)
The waxing moon reflects the coming fulfillment.
Although a change is coming, it will not be back to
normal; for what shall become the new normal—
of when old things were—can’t be allowed to block
the coming of justice to us as we continue our
struggle against viral oppressive forces.
1.
Here in the strangeness of the so-called
idealistic millennium with its unexpected
new normal, old oppressive forces gather
to contemplate new shackling ways and
means of maintaining unjust demonic power
over a bewildered citizenship presently being
naturally and politico-economically bombarded
with hurricane-like earth-shattering oppressive
new normal trials and tribulations popping-out
of the Pandora Box-like pandemonium of the day.
2.
Thus, politico-economically as well as culturally,
we who remain one of the greatest victims of
the normality of nature and the abnormality of
oppressive human nature must again be aware
that the only way to survive present-day oppression
is still by whatever means deemed to be necessary.
Just as in days of old—when bigoted oppressive acts
were considered normal—in this, the new normal,
we must likewise gather to contemplate whatever
new means necessary will be required to counteract
and neutralized new normal atrocities.
3.
In this new day begun, as we stand before the gates
of hell, we must—by whatever means necessary—continue
to be resilient in our battle against the decimating oppressive
forces that continue—in the so-called new-normal—to make
our lives a ground zero/walking dead lifestyle; and this
beloved is no panic-driven exaggeration but just a statement
of reality. How long ago was the Emancipation Proclamation
released? How long ago has it been since the Jim Crow nest
was supposed to have been ripped out of our tree of life; how
long has it been since the “jelly bean jar” was smashed to pieces?
And tell me, how long has that arch been bending towards the
blind goddess of justice who still remains as elusive as ever?
4.
Check it out! with the ever-burning candle flame of faith,
we must continue to cuddle reeds of hope and be renewed
and strengthened in our chase of the elusive blind goddess—
elusive as the tick-tock of time—with a sacred song of a new
day begun in the rolling sea of redemption, as we continue
to ride wrinkling waves over sand bars of injustice as we froth
onto the shores of equality; although we have walked through
death’s shadows—fearing no evil—let us not take God’s mercy
for granted; rather, let us continue to be deeply concerned with
today’s variant evil threats bringing pandemonium into our lives.
5.
In the coming seasons of discontentment with natural trials
and tribulations—coupled with the pandemic evil nature of the
oppressive behavior of those of the snake in the garden—let us
not be dismayed “eaters” of the “apples” delusion and apathetic
weariness. Indeed, let us not allow ourselves to become victims
of stormy winds of paranoia that the deceivers are now blowing.
As we move on to face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, let
us do so in a spirit of awareness with our eyes on the prize and
our minds on the ways and means necessary for us to get there
as we remain “on the battlefield of the Lord” with our shields of
hope in one hand and our swords of determinations in the other
faithfully stilling every threatening oppressive storm out there
seeking to destroy us.
6.
Let us forever be mindful that our children are eagerly watching,
listening and seeking to understand that they will be understood
when time comes for them to walk in the spiritual footprints we
must leave behind for them to thread in their new normal shoes
whose soles shall be as resistant and resilient as their ancestors’
souls were in trekking onward by whatever means needed to be.
