14 May 08

Walking Worthy

Ephesians 4:1 I , therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. Philem 1,9; Phil. 1:27

While many in our beloved country rejoice in diversity, Mainstreet questions how long we can survive with such different cultures, different feathers, different philosophies. One must ask who is responsible for bringing to our shores so many people with hatred in their hearts and irrational concepts of entitlement.

Much have we mentioned the unfortunate fact that immigrants tend to take the words on the Statue of Liberty as law whereas they feel our Constitution outdated and in need of scuttling.

As Israel marks its 60th anniversary of occupation of Palestinian territories and enslavement of the Palestinians, the world wonders how long it can survive. Most believe it is not a viable state since it must depend on others to stay alive and our own country, undertaking that role, is increasingly aware we cannot sustain this relationship: no treaty, no alliance, just the emotional blackmail and irrational belief that the world will end there, and that some want to b there for the occasion. Might we ourselves not predecease that state? Mainstreet believes that our country has never been more fragile and , young as we are, will probably not survive. We will be a mere blip on the screen of time baring some major reforms.

Many American blacks feel a sense of paranoia, that they were brought here as slaves and have been forevermore discriminated against, therefor they are owed. In historical fact no Americans engaged in the slave trade in Africa, that was a black and Arab trade, with Europeans shipping them here (the first batch dumped on the shores of Virginia by the Dutch who could not find a market for them in the islands). Southern plantation owners inherited many and wondered if they could ever actually make it on their. Thomas Jefferson, who had promised his father-in-law never to sell his slaves, wondered could they make it on their own. At the time of Abolition, all were offered free passage back to Africa and a country was purchased for them. Those who returned took up the slave trade. Those who remained made their way north, west, wherever they actually faced no discrimination at all, no segregation. My father graduated law school in Michigan in 1913 with a sampling of negroid Americans; of course the entire class was tiny.

Thus what the source of entitlement and paranoia? It is fanned by the poverty pimps, the black preachers who grow large followings by telling their congregations that it is not in themselves but in the whites that they are underlings.

Then we have the class warriors who arrived in this country with their sly peasant- out -to -cheat the landlord mentality. The detrimental effects of this ongoing class warfare, the determination to discriminate against the founding stock, are almost incalculable. Affirmative action was undertaken under the theory that it is not in ourselves but in the stars - and thus given so much money, so much class time, anyone can be a healthy, wealthy and useless citizen, playing at roles rather than being the best selection for any given slot.

No one appears to want to be what he was born to be. Thus we quote St. Paul's admonition to walk worthy of our vocations. This is much the basis for the Indian caste system: Arjuna at one time tried to beg off being a warrior, but was told no, that is what you were born to be. Africans naturally live in the culture of the Big Man who looks after others.

We, the U.S.A. were farm born and wonder truly if anyone belongs here who does not come as a pilgrim, a willing worker, a responsible participant, a useful citizen.