America the Beautiful: Institutionalized Hatred driven by Double Standards and Jim Crow Laws

In the Old Testament, during the administration of the Law of Moses, God made it abundantly clear that His people were to be governed in the main by one set of rules and regulations that was to be equally applicable to any foreigner living among them. That principle set the tone as well for those of us living in this the church age.Licking its wounds and waving bloody shirts and such following the war to eradicate one evil, the new nation simply rolled over and adopted another in the form of Jim Crow (a hellish practice spanning and filling the gap between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Civil Rights movement and marches of the 1960s). During the years of Jim Crow, the victorious north soon fell under a spirit of complacency, becoming more and more compliant with white southern conservative demands. Its once sympathetic churches having grown weary of the plight of the African and his struggle for equality, the north social conscience died as it looked the other way, while southern whites (aided by their churches!) freely vented their frustration over their loss of the newly freed Negroes (See, again, Side Bar below: Francis Swaggart, p. 98). In so many words, even after the war, the general attitude of the south and its churches remained “God and His mission to save souls be damned”. Toward this end, the south terrorized, harassed and disenfranchised the Africans in every way possible (even to the point of much unjustifiable bloodshed, including hangings, for practically any reason, against an otherwise defenseless people). This they would do, unabated, for the next 100 years, or so, following emancipation, through implementation of a system of laws and regulations known as the Black Codes (See the Side Bars below: The Black Codes, and George Wallace, p. 99). Making matters worse—notwithstanding the findings and pronouncements of Lewis and Clark (see the Side Bar below: How Wrong They Were, p. 100)—it was not as if resources and such in the new nation were scarce, or, that the land could not support a free people other than the Caucasian races—by no means, as history has shown, and, continues to show, to this very day! At the same time as Africans were being brought in and subjected to only the most inhumane treatment as unpaid laborers of the land, men and women of white complexion were being recruited and brought over from all across Europe to people, settle and to own the new land—thru helps that included land grants and land-grant colleges that taught them how to farm the land!In addition, a project proposed by the victorious north, led by a Gen. Sherman as part of a kind of postwar reparations initiative that would have set aside a sizable track of land along the eastern seaboard, so as to allow the newly freed Negroes to adjust and grow following life as slaves, was soundly and roundly overthrown by angry, bigoted southerners. For a nation professing itself to be Christian, having the hellish past that it has, this type of initiative (a definite biblical principle, much overlooked by white America’s Christian community, given its non-applicability to them!) would have been not only highly profitable and beneficial to the Africans, but, absolutely essential to a demonstration of the re-orientation of the thinking of the nation along biblical lines, and thus—most importantly—for the badly tarnished image and cause of the Christ they had for hundreds of years neglected to serve, biblically. In later years, black middle classes that managed to thrive despite the obstacles of prevailing racism, would be viciously attacked and violently destroyed by jealous, hostile mobs of white rednecks in states like Oklahoma (Tulsa) and Florida (Rosemead(?), if one recalls correctly).