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    BROTHER

    "He who has ears, let him hear."- Matthew 11:15

     

    Brother,

    will you love me tomorrow

    when the walls rise between Palestine and Israel,

    dividing us upon this Sacred Land?

    As a Muslim, I praise Allah at His command,

    As a Jew, Yahweh's Scripture indeed you understand,

    Though different names He is One God and He cries

    to see the blood of martyrs spilled on these desert sands

     

    Brother,

    will you still trust me tomorrow

    when men who look like me,

    commit felonies while declaring to be authorities?

    Will you blame me for the calamities

    in your community,

    thinking of me, and not them, as the beast?

    thereby allowing the Heaven's to cry

    thinking a Black and White man cannot live in Peace?

     

    WHO TRULY CARES IF THE WORLD

    IS CONTROLLED BY THE SO-CALLED ILLUMINATI!

    IF HIGH UP IN THE SYCAMORE TREE

    A FASHIONED NOOSE SUSPENDS,

    ONCE THEY CRIED DURING Y2K,

    "THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END!",

    I GUESS THEY ALLOWED OUR LIFE EXPECTANCY TO EXTEND,

    SO WE COULD VIEW IN H.D.T.V.

    ANOTHER AFRICAN BABY'S BELLY DISTEND

     

    Brother,

    will you love me tomorrow

    when you learn my Blood set

    shot your younger brother down simply

    because he was a Crip?

    I know you and your set are well equipped,

    but to God's Ears from my bloody lips,

    this senseless violence is making me sick,

    seems to me it ain't the white man anymore

    who is forcing our community to restrict

     

    Brother,

    will you still trust me tomorrow

    when you discover that I was a member

    of the Interahamwe?

    Lord knows many of my Tutsi brothers and sisters

    would be alive today, if I had my way,

    but as a Hutu I was forced at gunpoint

    to take part in the genocide,

    yes I admit, your mother I did slay,

    I come asking you and God for forgiveness as I pray

     

    BROTHERS AND SISTERS,

    MY NAME IS DARWIN LAWRENCE GREAVES

    AND I WAS TAUGHT BY A LADY NAMED LIBERTY

    THAT VENGENCE BELONGS TO GOD AND GOD ONLY,

    HER SCHOOLS TAUGHT ME THAT,

    HER BILL OF RIGHTS TAUGHT ME THAT,

    HER CONSTITUTION TAUGHT ME THAT,

    DAMMIT, HER CHURCHES TAUGHT ME THAT!

    IN GOD WE TRUST WAS STENCILED

    ON MY LONG FORGOTTEN AFRICAN NAME

    BY A WHITE MAN CALLED MASSA

    AND STILL I REFUSE TO PASS THE BLAME,

    I, LIKE YOU, SAW TWIN TOWERS FALL,

    FELT THE HURT, THE HORROR, THE SHAME,

    STILL, I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER,

    HOW CAN A BULLET THAT SPLATTERED BIN LADEN'S BRAIN,

    CHANGE THE MELODY WE HUM?

    HOW CAN OUR AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL,

    AND STAR-SPANGLED BANNERS YET WAVE

    IF RACISM, ISOLATIONISM AND BIGOTRY IS ALL WE CAN CLAIM,

    FROM A SONG THAT, NO MATTER HOW PRETTY,

    REMAINS THE SAME

     

    I need to know, somebody out there help me please!

     

    THE TORAH IS A PART OF THE TANACH, THE JEWISH BIBLE.

    THE OLD TESTAMENT DERIVES FROM THE TANACH AND WAS SHAPED

    TO SUPPORT THE CHRISTIAN IDEOLOGY.

    THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (P.B.T.H.N.) STUDIED BOTH

    CHRISTIANS AND JEWS THEREFORE THE QUR'RAN

    CONTAINS SIMILARITIES FOUND IN THE TANACH AND THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE.

     

    WE ARE ALL ONE IN THE EYES OF GOD!

     

    Let us pray then for today,

    and hope for a better tomorrow.

     

    SHALOM.

    INSHALLAH.

    IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST.

     

    AMEN

     

    • 13 December 2011
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