America was born out of a revolution against social injustice. Its birth certificate is signed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
(Preamble to United States Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776).

However, the flawed men who were inspired by Creator God to create and sign that divine document, had themselves failed to live up to its precepts. The result was another nefarious form of social injustice, slavery. There were then, and still are now, those who insist that all men are not created equal. The conflict between the precepts of the covenant and its practical application led to the most bloodied and horrific chapter of the American Experiment, the Civil War.

Throughout the nation’s existence, men and women have striven and sacrificed to ensure that the nation lived up to its promise which embodied, what Abraham Lincoln referred to as, “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to tyranny and oppression.” Besides Lincoln, the God who created this nation raised up prophets and protesters against the ignominy of slavery. There was Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and  Nat Turner.  William Lloyd Garrison, a white abolitionist and founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, along with other whites, such as writers John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe, were neck deep in the struggle. In more recent times, came Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm Little (X) and Martin Luther King, Jr., and more recently, John Lewis. Like the ancient prophets sent to Israel, they suffered and endured hardship and persecution. Some made the ultimate sacrifice, martyrdom.

But sadly, today we are witnessing the same battle being played out before our very eyes. Some are fighting and protesting against social injustice. Others, rationalizing the thoughts of God’s messengers of some two hundred plus years ago, persist in maintaining a system  of racial inequality. Their stance remains:  all men are not created equal.

There is much racial, cultural and class conflict in our country and the world today. All of this springs from the fact that many have forgotten or fail to realize who exactly we are: One Race…Many Colors.


Join us today in reminding ourselves and each other of that undeniable fact