Rev. Cleophus Ma’at shares the good word

For a country that’s only been around 233 years, it sure seem like forever. Shoot, even the people who lived here before 1776 was Americans. Americans before America: Native Americans—Native to America, like god almighty named this place America, not the founding fathers, and the natives wasn’t doing nothing but holding the place down for the white folks fore they got good and ready to come on over. And they did, ungrateful as they could be, just killing and raping them people like that when all they was doing was tending to the garden for them.  Watering plants and things like that. Perhaps all that time in those caves done made them ofays crazy. Or maybe they was mad cause the natives ain’t built up the good green land god left them to tend to for the duppies and the duppies got up-set. Either way, they was really mad. i’m talking diseases in blankets mad.

But there was a problem. See, whitey was too busy creating high culture and killin the natives to be doing uncultured things like growing food to sustain him and his family so he needed someone else do it. That’s right about the time whitey’s priest suggested the big, strong, and uglily Black African be they slave and do they work. That’s a fine religion they got themselves, you know. And they follow it, too, right down to the T.  So of course they heeded they priest’s words that he pulled from his old book of stories. After all, he the only one could talk to the god that done told them America was for them to begin with.

Well, the more things changed, the more they done stayed the same and here we find ourselves a few hunnit years later. Natives done got killed off, leaving only one group of people to be Americans. Naw, it ain’t no elastic thang could grow to fit everybody. It’s big enough for one group. One size fits all and if your head too big, you just gots to find you another hat. Now, some of ya’ll call ya’ll self following the same religion as them peckerwoods. Same religion that done got you in this situation to begin with. Well, if you was truly good god-fearing people, you’d just accept that god made America the way he wants it to be and you’d move on with your lives instead of tryna prove ya’ll self worthy to an unworthy, and despicable, bunch of something-or-others.  Can’t really call ‘em people, after all, now can you?

If America was America before it was America, then it’s gonna be America forever. Long after we gone. Home of the Americans who god himself hand-chose from the pits of that icey Hell they call europe. It’s the divine order of things. The way things was made to be. If you ain’t American now, you ain’t gonna be American tomorrow.

And why would you want to be? i mean, you really done believed every last thing this cracker and his book of stories done said about you, huh? Got you tryna be a artificial him when you so much more. You the Sun, but you wanna be a light bulb. You the Earth and you tryna be a pebble. “American” too small a word to hold your Glory.  But ya’ll don’t hear me, though.

Here go some scripture for you: the greatest trick the devil done pulled was convincing the world he wasn’t the white man.

Can i get a Amen?

-amari