Burgundy Waller, recently known as “the Chip Girl’’ in her Tik Tok videos, has recently created a social media stir of three million followers by demonstrating how a microchip about the size of a gain of rice implanted in her hand serves as a key to unlocking doors, closets, and storage areas in her Las Vegas mansion.

While chipped hands might sound new, between 50,000 to 100,000 people globally are using implanted microchipped as credit cards, or to store their medical and health information, gain access to gyms, use public transportation, says the Journal of Hand Surgery.  Furthermore in 1998, a British Scientist, Kevin Warwick( Captain Cyborg)  made headlines using a hand implanted micro-chip to operate doors, lights, and heaters around his office at the University of Reading.

For consumers looking for  a non-surgical way to free themselves of the hardship of  reaching  in their wallets for plastic or tapping their phones on scanners,  Amazon is also rolling out a plan which allows  customers to simply hover their palms over an Amazon One device to pay their bills.  On May 24, 2024,  Amazon and its company -owned Whole Foods, introduced palm technology that can be used for payments in over  500 stores.

Amazon uses consumers’ palms and their underlying vein structure to create a palm signature, which is produced  with the help of generative AI and verified by Amazon One scanners for  things like retail purchases and age verification. Amazon One scanners, once limited to Amazon stores, can now also be found in  third-party locations including stadiums, airports, and fitness centers. The new app lets users sign up for Amazon One through their phones instead of having to visit a physical location to take photos of their palms for enrollment.

Along with the excitement over the new hand developments, however, are the aged-old prophesies about a controversial “Mark of the Beast.”     The Mark of the Beast refers to Biblical references that during the last days of history a mysterious  autocratic and diabolical Anti-Christ leader would rise to rule over an evil empire where Christians who do not bare his mark on their hands would perish because they would be denied life sustaining goods such as food or medicines. Although mostly ignored by mainstream news, social media are roaring aloud that in the future the hands of Christians whether chipped or scanned could  play a role somewhat like the Star of David was used by the Nazis to identify Jews for death during the Holocaust.

The specific reference of the Mark is found in Revelation 13:16-17:  ‘He caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the  666 number of his name.”

The story of  the Mark and its role in today’s technology was featured in my    recently published book entitled the Rise and the Fall of the Techno-Messiah: Artificial Intelligence and the End Times. This writer described how some respected theologians give credence to the Mark of the Beast prophesy  as part of their eschatological doctrines dealing with the Second Coming of Christ in the Last Days of history.

Consider the warning of J.F. Walvoord the late president of the Dallas Theological Seminary:  “There is no doubt that with today’s  technology a world leader in total control, could keep a continually updated census of all persons and know precisely which people had pledged their allegiance to him and who has not. It is highly likely that chip  implants, scan technology, and biometrics will be used as tools to enforce restrictions on buying and selling without  the Mark.”

Too often when the End Times and the Mark are discussed it is usually contained in only conservative white institutions.  Black churches and seminaries, however, also  teach and preach the  End Times prophesies  resulting in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.   The recent pandemics, the possibility of nuclear wars, cataclysmic weather events, such as the frequency of hurricanes and flooding  all fit in this apocalypse scenario.

In fact, this writer, an African-American woman is among those who  have taught on the End Times, including the Mark of the Beast at Calvary Bible institute in Washington D.C. Although it is surprising to some, there are 1,845 prophetic references to the Second Coming of Jesus, a factor of eight to one  over references of His First Coming.  In Fact, Scriptures show Jesus speaking of  His return 21 times.

The Mark of the Beast and the spirituality around it have also made its way into political circles. Mark Cole, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, once introduced a proposal to prevent corporations from forcing employees to submit to implants.  He also said his  concerns were also based on  the Book of Revelation which deals with the Mark of the Beast.  Referring to the microchips, he argued,” they just  might be that mark.”

Aside from the spiritual considerations, today, since the  FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved an implantable chip last year, the chips are gaining respectability and will one day  be as commonplace as using Sirius to order dinner.

The most popular microchips use radio-frequency identification technology which for decades were used for tracking animals.  It works like a barcode label to identify vehicles, animals, and luggage tags.  This technology can be  used to monitor patient health,  locate missing people, track people under house arrest, and trace valuable items.  As  people become  more comfortable with internal devices such as pacemakers, birth control rods and nerve stimulators implanted in their bodies, the fear factor is diminishing.

In fact, microchipped hands could easily become an obsession, especially among those who see tattoos as fashion statements.  On the plus side, the happily chipped person could glide through customs and waiting lines with a flip of the hand, have instant medical and education information in hand and , abolish the need  to carry keys, remember passwords or even carry a wallet.

Microchips could speed the screening of passengers for air travel,  subways could use  them to collect fares. Bars could use microchips to “card” underage drinkers without concerns about fake IDs. An implanted microchip could also be used to ward off voter fraud or increase it by denying those without the chip the right to vote.

While the future for chipped  or scanned hands seems dazzling, there are other considerations, such as how long it would take for criminal enterprises to learn how to gain access to personal information by hacking off chipped hands of victims or hacking into their programs which continues to beguile users.

The peer reviewed Journal of Hand Surgery also recently warned that current implantation is typically not performed in a medical environment. “Implantation of these devices in humans can result in complications, such as infection and tendon attrition, and the relevant safety implications have not been extensively studied.”

It looks like speed,  convenience of micro-chips and palm technology, along with more safety guardrails could one day overrule fears of invasion of privacy and health concerns.  As for the speculation of Bible believers about the eventual rise of an evil empire and the Mark of the Beast this is also a story that will be continued.

Columnist; Dr. Barbara Reynolds

Official website; https://twitter.com/revdrreynolds

Each and every one of these radical demonic social philosophies hates with a passion Jews and those who subscribe to being a crayon color as the highest elevation of self-worth.

Regardless of where you find them, they are Erebusic marplots and pernicious liars whose energy is spent on destruction and divisiveness at the expense of truth and civility.

Such Democrats and political philosophists in reality are nothing more than angry anarchists committed to spreading falsity and division. These people are faster to accuse those they view as conservative Christians with wrongdoing than Billy the Kid was to draw his pistol.

Coloreds would blame Christians and conservatives for stars shining at night, but yet they’ve developed a type of Stockholm syndrome that makes them want to please those who are in fact abusing them. Democrats were responsible for the weaponization of so-called skin color. Slavery was never about a supposed skin color, but Democrats sold the lie well and with it the revision of factual history.

“Circa 1892, former slave Rep. John Roy Lynch in response to the question of why Coloreds were so often targeted by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) stated: ‘More colored than white men are thus persecuted simply because they constitute in larger numbers the opposition to the Democratic Party. … [Former slave] U.S. Rep. Richard Cain of South Carolina, a bishop of the AME denomination, agreed, declaring: ‘The bad blood of the South comes because the Negroes are Republicans. If they would only cease to be Republicans and vote the straight-out Democrat ticket there would be no trouble. Then the bad blood would sink entirely out of sight.'” (Page 14, “Democrats and Republicans In their Own Words”)

Remember Hillary Clinton with her bottle of hot sauce? Remember her calling them super-predators? But, she really didn’t mean it. She was just having an off day and shared her true feelings by accident. Thus when she and the Clinton administration with the help of Joe Biden effected the greatest mass-incarceration initiative of “African-American youth,” it wasn’t because they were acting upon their true feelings.

And pray, someone tell me why in the name of blue skies and bright sunny days Jews would flock en masse to a political construct that openly woos Muslims committed to the extermination of the Jewish nation? A political party that welcomes with open arms scum who allegedly marry their siblings, incite and support hatred and death to Israel, and those who call for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of the Jewish nation during live congressional sessions. A political party that financially underwrites candidates who embrace and call for the death of Israel and insist the nation of Israel be handed over to Palestinian usurpers.

What kind of elixir has been slipped into the beverages of these two groups that makes them want to participate with those sworn to subjugate them? Think about it: These people are witnessed yapping around the clock that evil conservatives and Christians are plotting the genocide of the “descendants of slaves,” as they also like to be known. From Protestants to law enforcement to taxi drivers – everyone is out to get them. But, these women go to the “devils” and pay them kill their children. That’s as close as selling ice to an Eskimo living on an iceberg as it gets.

Another thing with these feral marauders: They never extol the truly virtuous of those they subjugate. They encourage the building of monuments and painting images of street trash like George Floyd, on bombed out buildings. But they curse Justice Clarence Thomas.

The churches they attend are more conducive to a “black mass” than the preaching and teaching of the Word of God. Democrats are shameless and willing to defile family, church and school ad nauseam.

This is the political party making a mockery of justice with the Jan. 6 hearings – which are not about justice, but about terrorizing the public into grudging compliance and mandated subjugation.

If the serpent in the Garden of Eden belonged to a political party it would the Democrats. They censor truth and fact, destroy the family, promote debauchery and encourage disease-causing behavior.

Imagine a political party that is undeniably guilty of the disruption, anarchy and deconstruction of the greatest nation in the world. And like Carter and Obama before him, Biden is will willing to destroy the economy and standard of living for hundreds of millions of Americans to promote programs that do not work and for which we have no need.

Columnist; Mychal Massie

Official website; http://mychal-massie.com

            Millions of Christians around the world completed their celebration of Easter, the essence of the Christian ethos; the rising of Yeshua from the dead, thereby accomplishing his earthly mission: the redemption of humanity, victory over death and providing righteous immortality to the believers.

 On a less lofty yet practical note the word resurrection also means: rebirth, renewal and transformation which is something we can attain and accomplish here and now.  Transformation is not a strictly religious idea or notion although it is at the core of most organized religions today. Unfortunately we have consigned the notion of personal transformation to an idealistic naiveté, something one rarely accomplishes or if they do it’s done to earn more money, gain higher social status or some other goal such as losing weight.

All too often personal transformation is promoted by gurus who are in it for the money as they sell and hype their books and other media. Don’t allow hucksters and charlatans to dissuade you from actualizing your full potential! History has shown there are people who genuinely love humanity, who want us to grow and master the vicissitudes and challenges of life. The world’s most popular religions are based upon the teaching of enlightened beings like Moses, The Buddha, Yeshua bar Joseph, Muhammad, Zoroaster, Lao Tzu, Confucius and countless others. Their message to us is that transformation, rebirth, resurrection is possible and doable.

All of the great avatars and teachers, those known recorded and unknown, recognized that personal transformation takes arduous effort; there is no easy path to personal enlightenment and self-mastery. This truth is even more evident in a society like ours where conformity, groupthink, rigid social constraints, selfishness and grass materialism are the norm. The rulers of this social order have created a system whereby we are indoctrinated to fit into a mold to serve and enrich them by being their workers, their managers, overseers and enforcers. They tell us we are free and have equal opportunity but we really don’t because most of the time our options are limited to what they present as possible, acceptable and permissible even if it harms us or society.

Repentance means to change your mind, how you think what you believe you are capable of, it means having confidence in the latent powers within you; it is the first step in personal transformation. Personal transformation is a form of resurrection, rising from the uninspired thinking, moving beyond restrictions, constrictions and stultifying limitations. Transformation means getting out of the rut, a rut is nothing but a grave with open ends. Transformation means seeing beyond where we are and envisioning (visualizing) something different, meaningful and better.

The idea there is something better and greater for us can be scary, it goes against the grain; this is why most of the teachers who promote personal transformation are viewed by the keepers of the status quo as troublemakers, rabble rousers engaged in seditious activity. This is why Yeshua was lynched for sedition, why Socrates was murdered for teaching alien ideas (which he learned from our Nile Valley ancestors) or why Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and so many others were assassinated for their  divinely ordained work to free our people mentally, socially, economically and politically.

As frightening as nonconformity, marginalization and ostracism can be, all too often the first and sometimes greatest opponent we face when we attempt to rise up and move beyond our present boundaries is ourselves! We are constrained by our beliefs, fears, doubts and habits. Our own lack of faith in ourselves and our innate powers and potential holds us back, keeps us in bondage to dead end ideas, unenthusiastic pursuits, lethargy and sloth which are a living death!

Rise up! There is a Divine Spark within you, allow it to energize and transform you. Introspection, quietude, trust and action are the keys to resurrection. Turn within; learn to distinguish between idle mind chatter and intuition the unlearned knowledge that while it may seem crazy is never wrong! Learn to cultivate your intuition and have the courage of your convictions because it will always prompt you to do things beyond your present comfort zone (habits patterns d proclivities). Unlike a lifeless corpse, we still have the Animating Life Force working within us. Stoke it, arouse it and allow it to transform our lives and bring us into positive notice; have the courage to allow it to do a great work in your life!

Columnist; Junious Ricardo Stanton

Official website; https://fromtheramparts.blogspot.com/

Polling data collected by Barna Group, a California research firm that studies faith and culture, show that 38% of Protestant senior pastors have considered leaving the ministry in the past year. According to the same study, among pastors under age 45 an even higher percentage considered leaving—46 percent, which is unprecedented.

As more pastors and rabbis step down, it could create a void that encourages many young Americans to look to social media personalities, celebrities, entertainers and others for guidance. When young people fall to the cults of personality, can we wonder why we see a resulting increase in violence, bullying and other bad behavior, disrespect for others, out of wedlock births, single motherhood and men incapable of making commitment? Much of our music, movies, and television reality shows promote a culture without a moral compass that is influencing youths.

What does it say when many Americans, especially young people, do not pray often? We need our clergy to guide and counsel families who are seeking the best way to raise children in a society that doesn’t promote morality or ethical behavior. To some extent, American society seems to be okay with just “making it up”—rules don’t exist, and social norms change often. Since the late 1960s, when many Americans were very religious, Gallup has found major social changes.

Now our pastors are considering retirement for a number of reasons, not limited to “exhaustion, low pay, and lack of appreciation,” the survey found. Evidently, our society is impacting preachers because what happens in the world affects the church, when it should be the other way around. The way that we conduct ourselves in church—with warmth, kindness, humility and love for one another—should be the way we act out in the world, but this seems to have diminished in recent times, especially with our polarized politics. No wonder some pastors feel demoralized.

When I was growing up, the church drew mothers, fathers, children and other relatives; our day of worship was an extended family affair. There’s an old saying that “a family that prays together stays together.” That proved to be true, I think, and our church leaders were some of the most respected members of the community. I have witnessed changes over the years as generations began to step away from church and respect for family and old values waned. There is some cause for hope, however: APew Research Center report found many teens attend church with their parents or other family members, though they are less likely to consider religion to be “very important.”

We should not forget that God is a guiding force in our lives. The clergy to whom we look for guidance aren’t perfect; they’re human, too. Yet they still dedicate themselves to our spiritual growth and maturity, and we should value that.

If people don’t appreciate today’s pastors and the stress of their positions, how can we solve this? I personally don’t have the answer. I was taught that people who turn away from God must face a reckoning. Perhaps in our society we need to face reckoning before people return to church and respect preachers.

With so much anger and hostility, our nation is in trouble—and with falling membership, so is the church. When the pulpits are empty and the church doors close, what will we do when the children of America’s future don’t know where to turn?

Columnist; Armstrong Williams

Official website; http://www.armstrongwilliams.com

How do I know this? Because God has something He wants to say to each and every one of us. We see this principle at play in the story of Moses in Exodus 3. At this point in his life, Moses is a murderer living on the backside of the desert. He’s not a poster child for righteousness, but we see that God has something to say to Moses in Exodus 3:1-4:

“Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”

Regardless of his low status and shady past, the Lord had something specific to say to Moses. The same is true for you and I. No matter what we’ve done or where we are right now—no matter how much of a priority God has been in our lives lately—He wants to commune with us. He wants to speak purpose and identity over us. He wants to show us something amazing.

Notice what Moses did when he saw the bush, because it’s the key to clearly hearing God’s voice in our day-to-day lives: “Moses thought, ‘I will go over and see this strange sight.’” Other translations use the phrase “turn aside.”

A huge part of us being empowered and encouraged when we hear the voice of God is dependent upon us turning aside to tune in to what God wants to say. Moses was just going about his regular day, shepherding sheep. Similarly, you and I have a laundry list of things we have to do today—those lists of things are always there. But hearing the voice of God is often contingent upon stopping the monotony of the list—returning emails, running errands, watching shows, scrolling through social media—in order to turn aside and to focus on the Lord.

He wants to speak to you today, just like He wanted to speak to Moses. The question isn’t whether God’s speaking—it’s whether we will turn aside and soak in His presence.

Columnist; Van Moody

Official website; https://www.vanmoody.org/

In addition to doing that consistently, there are situations and times in which the Bible may not, to your knowledge, speak specifically to your circumstances. What do we do in these situations? We seek God for His direction.

Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” God truly does want to show us what to do. Sometimes, he will show us through his Word; other times, he’ll nudge us in a particular direction. In 2 Samuel 5:22-25, God speaks directly to David to tell him how to defeat the Philistines:

“And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees. And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.” And David did as the Lord commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.”

Immediately preceding this passage, David had conquered the Philistines using another method given to Him by God. This time, however, God’s voice told David to do something different. Remember, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. What does that mean for you and me? It means we have to have a word from God in order to act in faith. We will not have faith unless we’ve heard from God.

In addition to spending regular, consistent time with God, before you rush into anything—even if it appears easy—you’ve got to pull aside and hear from the Lord. Faith is not blind; faith always relies on the Word of God. This is, in fact, why Psalm 119:105 literally says, “Your Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” In Bible days, people would have lamps; and the lamp would literally only light enough for them to take the next step. They couldn’t see the whole road ahead. The Bible says that’s kind of what the Word does for us—the Word of God is a lamp for our feet and a light for our path.

So whatever choices you’re facing today—no matter how small or familiar they might seem—take time to listen for God’s voice, and then do what he says. His Word is essential to seeing victory in your life.

Columnist; Van Moody

Official website; https://www.vanmoody.org/

Now, the main reason for this topic at hand is that for the last 53 years after the assassination of our great leader Martin Luthe King on April 4, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee where he was shot while staying at the Lorraine Motel and was still alive when He arrived at the hospital only to be suffocated by an FBI agent which was witness by a white nurse and a white Doctor who will years later confessed to what they witness but their story to be kept in a lock vault and hidden from black America with the help of the white mainstream media. Indeed, since 1968, all the African American churches switched from been pro-black movement and pro-revolution to laying in bed with the FBI and democrat party in order to prevent the birth of another black man with the same fire, dedication and defiant to resurface as a leader of the black community which will again threaten the white power structure and destabilized the country.

You have noticed that as a so called free black men/women walking down the street of the inner cities of America that there is always a black church every five (5) to ten (10) blocks and before you get to these black churches there is one (1) to three (3) liquor store every two blocks and the question is why? No other race or culture in America has churches and liquor stores in their community to such extent. You do not see it in the Asian, Middle-Eastern, Jewish, Armenians, Italians, Irish and white people communities or neighborhoods. Not at all, do you see these group of people allowing the government or any other group of people to come in their neighborhood and place liquor stores and churches in every block or every other block of their neighborhood; but the African Americans are the only ones who allow anyone and anything to open liquor stores that destroyed our youth with their fire water and cheap food; and the churches to brainwashed our people into following the religion of the slave “Christianity” which was used as a tool to control the black men/women during slavery and still been use to keep black people docile, pacified and never to raise their hands against the white men and its agenda of systemic racism.

Now, who is at fault for these ongoing madness? Well, it is us black people for allowing ourselves to be fool not once, not twice but over 400 times every year for over 400 years and it will not stop until we wake up and start paying attention to the simplest detail and those who look like us but are not with us. Of course, I am talking about the black pastors and black priest operating all these African American Churches in our community at the behest of the white government in order to keep up in check and never to allowed us to really see the truth that is in plain view. You may asked “what is this truth that you cannot see” and I will tell you that you see it and supported every day when you go to these black churches and you give or donate your little money that you have to these black churches, black pastors and black priest who then take that money and put it in a white owned bank with white employees and then give that same money as loans and grants to other white people and other races who have an account in that bank for which they use their loans and grants to open businesses, hire their family member, friends and other white people and thus far create generational wealth for their white children and then turn around and denied employment to black men and black women and to you knowing that the money came from your donation to your church who then gave your donation to the white men’s bank.

Are you listening black man and black woman! Your African American Churches are preaching, singing, teaching and bending the knee to a white religion of the slaves for which you call Christianity and you call yourself Christians while the black pastors and black priest called you a “Sucker Bible Thumper”, they take your hard earned money, donations, contributions and put that money in a white bank owned by racist white men who employees other racist white men and racist want to be white Hispanics and use your money to give it to other racist white men and other racist who are seeking loans and grants to open business, buy houses, buy cars and build things that you cannot build or owned by yourself. The black pastors also take your money to buy luxury cars, million dollar homes in white neighborhoods, take long vacations, expensive clothing and jewelry while they tell you to lived a simple life and prayed to a white God for good thing to come to those who prayed and wait. You may notice that some of my sentences seemed repetitive but there is a reason behind it since I want all my African Americans men and women to understand that we are doing this to ourselves and we need to wake up and starting paying attention and thinking before we do things in support of churches that do not have the best interest of our black community. These black pastors and black priest are stealing the little money and wealth that we have and they are using it to enrich themselves and to enriched the white men while our community is dying and in desperate need of repair and rehabilitation.

Every Sundays and even on weekdays allege free black people go to church to seek peace, advise, solutions, entertainment, wife, husband etc.,, but the only things you received is the same speech that many pastors have been given black people with no solution in the near future. While at these black churches you are told at the beginning to give to God and Jesus and at the end your are asked again to give what little you have to the church and that God will blessed you with love, faith and happiness; yet, black people go home to despair, poverty, unemployment and death by the hands of police officers or at the hands of other black thugs and criminals who were born to single mothers who themselves were born to single mothers as well. Black America we need to stop giving money to black churches who do not do anything for blacks and neither do they lived in our black community or put money in black banks.

In the United States of America there are over 21 African American banks and yet our black churches do not bank with them and neither do they put any money or redirect any churchgoers to put their money in black banks. The African American Churches have a combined NetWorth of over $14 million dollar a month which is over $168 million dollars a year and that money is not use to help our black youth to keep them out of gangs, crime and drugs; instead, all that money that poor inner-cities black people give to black churches goes to hands and control of white banks that are owned by racist and non racist white men and they in turn use that black money and wealth to invest in the endeavor and businesses of white people, Asian people. Middle Eastern people, Hispanics people, LGBT and now it will also be use to help the 65,000 thousand Afghan refugees living in America.

It is time for all African American worshipers of the Religion of the Slaves aka Christianity to stop giving your money away to black pastors and their black churches preaching the word of the Neanderthal cave dwellers who gave you their garbage religion as a tool to control you during slavery and they still controlling you via the use of the black pastors, black priest and black bourgeoisie who are enriching themselves every Sunday while you are still living poor and seeing your children and love ones been killed on a daily basis by other people and by our own people who are also brainwashed by the same Religion of the Slaves aka Christianity. Now, many of you sellout blacks and uncle toms will continue to give all your money and the money which you do not have to your black churches regardless if the pastors is living in a white Neighborhood and driving a luxury car using your donations but at least you can asked, demand and seek proof of your black churches putting your donations and contributions in African American owned banks. Remember, there are over 21 black banks in America and yet these black churches and mega black churches refuse to open accounts and deposit their money that they receive from black worshipers into these black banks.

With that said, it is time for African Americans to demand our black pastors, churches, mega churches to put the money you gave them as donations, contributions, payments etc.. in black banks and financial institutions that are owned by pro- blacks and employees black people with black managers and black accountants. If every black church in America put all their money in our black banks it will create opportunities for our black banks to invest in our communities by creating jobs, investing in property, building trade and vocational schools for our black children, building safe home for battered black women and black homeless people and it will free us from the dependency of racist white America but more so if all churches and all black people put their money in our black banks then we could build dozens of Black Wall Streets in every state where there is a black population.

Below you will find a list of African American owned banks but you as a free thinking black person must do your own research and verify each bank to make sure they are black owned and pro-black.

1. OneUnited Bank
2. Carver Federal Savings Bank
3. Liberty Bank
4. Industrial Bank
5. Citizens Trust Bank
6. Mechanics & Farmers Bank
7. First Independence Bank
8. GN Bank (Groupe Nduom)
9. Broadway Federal Bank
10. The Harbor Bank of Maryland
11. First Independence Bank
12. Citizens Savings Bank & Trust
13. Unity National Bank
14. Tri-State Bank of Memphis
15. United Bank of Philadelphia
16. Commonwealth National Bank
17. Carver State Bank
18. Metro Bank
19. Columbia Savings and Loans Association
20.Alamerica Bank.

Columnist; Eugenio Stewart

One may contact this brother at; islam4infinity@yahoo.com.

JAN. 5: These past few years have taught me not to so quickly judge the quiet Germans, Russians, etc. Of course, I still judge Germans who helped the Nazis and Germans who in any way hurt Jews. But the Germans who did nothing? Not so fast.

What has changed my thinking has been watching what is happening in America (and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, for that matter). The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police-state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering.

JAN. 12: We are faced with a lockdown on speech the likes of which have never been seen in America. And the parallels with Germany are even more stark. What the Left is doing is announcing — and enforcing — that conservatives “do not belong” in our society. The parallels to 1933 are precise. And most good Americans are keeping silent, just as did most Germans. Though they do not risk being beaten up, are Americans in 2021 as afraid of the American Left as Germans in 1933 were of the German fascists? We’re about to find out.

JAN. 19: Why does the Left need to crush all dissent? This is a question made all the more stark because there is no parallel on the right: Conservatives do not shut down dissent or debate.

The answer is the Left fears dissent. And they do so for good reason. Leftism is essentially a giant balloon filled with nothing but hot air. Therefore, no matter how big the balloon — the Democratic Party, The New York Times, Yale University — all it takes is a mere pin to burst it.

FEB. 9: The American medical profession as a whole and many individual doctors are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans — very possibly, more than that. Along with the media — from The New York Times to Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter — Americans have been denied both life-saving information and life-saving drugs.

FEB. 23: If you don’t hate communism, you don’t care about, much less love, people.

MARCH 2: The great tragedy of our time is that liberals vote Left. Virtually every value liberals have held for a century is now held by conservatives and scorned by leftists.

MARCH 9: Schools teach children to hate reason, tradition, America, Christianity, white people, excellence, freedom and masculinity. Parents must either find a school that teaches reading, writing and arithmetic rather than America-hatred, or they should home-school their child.

MARCH 16: The bigger the government, the fewer the institutions in which people can feel important. Therefore, given the deep human need to feel important, people will look elsewhere for their importance — like fighting systemic racism, heteronormativity, capitalism, patriarchy and transphobia. And, most of all, global warming — because you cannot feel more important than when you believe you are saving the world.

MARCH 30: When Christianity died in Europe, we got communism, fascism and Nazism. What will we get in America if Christianity and Judeo-Christian values die?

APRIL 6: Mask-wearing represents fear and blind obedience, not science.

APRIL 20: Whites aren’t hated for slavery. They are hated for making America and for making Western civilization.

APRIL 27: Affluence plus secularism equals boredom equals leftism.

MAY 18: The Left demands we believe and announce that men menstruate and give birth and that it is in no way unfair to girls and women when biological men compete in girls’ and women’s sports. In tens of thousands of American schools, students are brainwashed to believe that America was not founded in 1776, but in 1619. The world’s Left demands that we believe Israel is the villain and Hamas is the victim.

JUNE 8: The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America — against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and the military — is to take their children out of America’s schools.

Sending your child(ren) to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values — but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools’ guns hold four or five bullets.

JUNE 15: Unconditional love is neither biblical nor rational nor moral. Can you name anything good that is or should be given with no moral or ethical conditions?

JUNE 22: If America is racist, why have millions of blacks emigrated here? Did Jews emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?

JUNE 29: “Safetyism,” like all religions, places what it values — in this case, being safe — above other values. Safetyism explains the willingness of Americans to give up their most cherished values — including liberty — in the name of safety.

The desire to lead as safe a life as possible is a major factor that explains why fewer and fewer young Americans are getting married and even fewer are having children. Neither marriage nor having children is safe. Both are filled with risks.

You can live a safe life. Or you can live a full life. You can’t live both.

JULY 20: You have a right to be transgender. You don’t have a right to expose your penis to women.

JULY 27: It is hard to imagine greater proof of the power of mass media and of the Left than a normal woman celebrating her daughter’s choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother because of climate change.

AUG. 24: Imagine if some of the biggest cities in America seceded from their states. Imagine Illinois without Chicago, Pennsylvania without Philadelphia, California without Los Angeles or San Francisco, New York state without New York City, or Texas without Houston, Dallas or San Antonio. Those states would lose a major tax base and some of their best orchestras and other artistic institutions. But the gains in quality of life would completely offset any financial or artistic losses.

Big cities have been and continue to be centers of destructive ideas, and the people living in them are generally coarser and often just plain meaner.

SEPT. 7: Colorblind means one does not believe a person’s color is in any way significant. There is little that reveals the immorality, dishonesty and racism of the Left more than its war on colorblindness.

SEPT. 14: Will the Left succeed? Unless Americans fight the Left as hard as the Union fought the slave states, the answer is yes.

SEPT. 21: As America has become more secular, it has become less free. Individuals can differ as to whether these two facts are correlated, but no honest person can deny they are facts.

OCT. 5: There is almost nothing Democrats can do to damage America, or Israel, that would change most American Jews’ political leanings. The latest example took place just last week. A college student speaking to the vice president of the United States, a Democrat, condemned America for supporting Israel, and charged Israel with committing “ethnic genocide” against Palestinians.

Harris’ response?

“Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard.”

OCT. 19: The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals. There are simply not enough leftists to destroy our most revered institutions. They need liberals to serve as fellow travelers to accomplish their ends.

OCT. 26: If no one goes to prison for actor Alec Baldwin’s accidental killing of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, our society will have failed a crucial moral test. We will be saying human life is not sacred; that it, in effect, is of little or no consequence.

NOV. 2: As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong.

NOV. 9: Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, confirmed an Israeli study: “In Israel, vaccinated individuals had 27 times higher risk of symptomatic COVID infection compared to those with natural immunity from prior COVID disease.”

The denial of the efficacy of natural immunity is among the many reasons so many Americans no longer trust the American medical establishment.

NOV. 23: All my life, I thought love and hate were the two most powerful human emotions. But owing to recent events, I have changed my mind. I now understand that for most people, fear is the strongest emotion.

DEC. 7: If you are a conservative, why should you come out of the closet?

First, you will sleep better. Staying in the closet exacts a serious mental price. Second, kindred spirits, all quality people, will reach out to you, some of whom will undoubtedly become close friends. Third, you will respect yourself more. Fourth, you will help save this country from tyranny. For some, that is reason enough.

DEC. 21: Trans swimmer Lia Thomas is a cheat. As far as sports are concerned, one’s biology, not one’s gender identity, is all that matters.

Columnist; Dennis Prager

Official website; http://twitter.com/dennisprager

Many Marxist-leaning proponents of the new society they want established also call for us to reimagine the way we raise children, eliminating scriptural practices. Reasoning with children and ignoring bad behavior are these activists’ solutions for the utopian “family” (whatever form it takes) they envision for the future.

A popular film in theaters currently is “C’mon C’mon” starring Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix. He has to care for a young boy who is “cute” but outspoken, obnoxious, manipulative, spews profanities and is encouraged to rant and scream when he’s emotionally frustrated or caught running away. Critics hail the movie as a “heartwarming” story great for the holiday season that gives us a glimpse into 21st century children.

How we must learn to discern amidst offerings like this in abundance today.

Loving correction

Scripture tells us “the corrections of discipline are the way to life” (Proverbs 6:23, NIV). We absolutely need to demonstrate affection and affirmation regularly, but love is also expressed in another way. What we need is a clear biblical worldview on the subject of child raising so both parent and child enjoy a positive result. Bottom line: We need realism versus idealism in raising kids.

Raising children requires a realistic perspective on our inherited sinful nature and a rejection of the “inherent goodness of man.” Adam rebelled, and all of us have ratified that rebellion because of our inherited sin nature. We don’t have to teach children to be selfish, lie, hit their siblings, steal or pout when they don’t get their way. We do have to train them to learn to control themselves and do what is right in the sight of God and man.

Worldly ways or scriptural standards

Don’t you just love it when so-called marriage and parenting guests expound their views on TV in their world of Utopia? One gorgeous celebrity has been divorced four times and yet goes on the circuit to promote her new book on romance and happy marriage. Another celebrity couple who are living together with no children confidently share their “wisdom” philosophy about raising their future children by simply reasoning with them, affirming them and consistently building up their self-esteem.

Wait till these well-intentioned but way-off-base “experts” confront strong-willed Grayson in all his glorious disobedience and defiance one day! This is why seasoned veterans chuckle at this idealism and understand bumper stickers reading: “Insanity is inherited. You get it from your children.”

Better to approach parenting God’s way and embrace the truth that appears on a plaque we had in our home: “It is better to build children than to repair men.”

If you permit a child to nurture destructive habits they will one day be forced (with greater difficulty) to break, you are living beneath the revealed will of God concerning your role as a parent.

• “Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul” (Proverbs 29:17, NKJV).
• “Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction will drive it far from him” (Proverbs 22:15).
• “By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not respond” (Proverbs 29:19, ESV).
• “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother” (Proverbs 29:15, ESV).
• “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death” (Proverbs 23:13-14, NIV).

God’s method for curbing harmful attitudes and nurturing healthy ones is not parents going ballistic, threatening, screaming, hauling off and smacking in anger, tuning out destructive conduct, bribing with candy or banishment to a room to brood in resentment amidst their latest “Meltdown Madness.”

Reclaiming not reimagining

Research reveals that in America up to 85% of parents acknowledge spanking in some situations. Every state in America allows corporal punishment of children. Nineteen states employee it in the schools. Due to increased disciplinary problems in schools, many are reevaluating their failing liberal policies, such as the Arlington school district outside Memphis, Tennessee, that voted to reinstate corporal punishment saying, “teachers need all tools possible.”

Professor Robert Larzelere of Oklahoma State University, who studied this subject for decades, states: “Backup spanking done calmly and in a consistent manner with defiant 2 to 6 year-olds, backing up milder forms of discipline like timeouts, is shown to be effective at changing behavior.”

Marjorie Gunnoe at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, states from her research that “children spanked in a calm, consistent manner have better outcomes than children who have never been spanked.”

Former NBA superstar Charles Barkley joked recently, “If corporal punishment is a crime, then every black parent in the South is going to be put in jail!”

An acrostic: C.O.R.R.E.C.T.IO.N.

C. CLARITY: Loving correction always begins by clearly defining and communicating reasonable boundaries before they are enforced.

O. OBEDIENCE: Spankings can occur if “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right” (Ephesians 6:1, NIV) is violated.

R. RIGHT ATTITUDES: We are to “serve the Lord with gladness” (Psalm 100:2, ESV), so persistent whining and complaining has to be addressed.

R. RESTORATION: Embracing and reassuring a child afterward enables us to avoid leaving them feeling guilty or rejected.

E. EXPLANATION: Taking time to explain the offense as well as enabling the parent to calm down (if needed) makes this essential.

C. CONSISTENCY: Loving correction requires an investment and persevering commitment … “he who loves him is diligent to discipline him” (Proverbs 13:24, ESV).

T. THOROUGHNESS: Shaping the will without breaking the spirit requires being authoritative not authoritarian so the child experiences some pain versus simple “love pats.” “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant …” (Hebrews 12:11).

I. IMMEDIATELY: With exceptions, loving correction should be given in the moment not “when daddy comes home” etc. “Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil” (Ecclesiastes 8:11, ESV).

O. OUT-OF-SIGHT: Discipline is administered in private so as not to embarrass a child.

N. NEUTRAL OBJECT: Scripture advises a “rod” (a small, flexible branch) for correction.

Question: “Where is the rod administered?”

God in His wisdom prepared a strategic place on the anatomy of our small children which has ample cushiony tissue and sensitive nerve endings to respond to Spirit-led stimulation. This “seat of learning” is located at the base of the back, above the thighs, located directly on the bottom of every child. In 50 years of child-rearing and family counseling, I’ve discovered that all children come equipped with one! “On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense” (Proverbs 10:13, ESV).

Here’s the deal: We don’t need to “reimagine” how to train our small children but respect God’s way, which is always best!

Columnist; Larry Tomczak

Official website; https://twitter.com/LarryTomczak