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Structure. I just thought about that word, especially since Monday was the day we celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday It was also the day of the inauguration of President Donald Trump. No one ever quoted King's perhaps most famous words about not judging a person by the color of their skin but by their character. However, are we used to seeing nature these days?
I practice because it is a skill. No knowledge is required to identify the constants. All one has to do is engage in that identity politics and speak in its pre-approved terms. It also does not require the ability to make quick decisions based on the fixed characteristics of a person. This requires nothing more than ignoring the personality of the person in front of you and clinging to him in every way that comes with that identity.
We often see this type of behavior in the cesspool social media and from so-called thought leaders sitting behind podcast microphones stirring up outrage to line their pockets with click-bait money. What is surprising is that many of them say we have seen the structure but they do the opposite.
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Seeing someone's background doesn't make money.
I too have been asked by others to see the colors first and foremost. While I was on a rooftop raising money for my community center, we heard about how a white neighborhood in North Chicago had to hire security guards after George Floyd is protesting because the violence was still going on.
While we were preparing to record the story for Fox, several people came to me and stressed that we needed to give white people a taste of the violence that permeated our environment. I flatly refused. This was not race for me. This was about the steep decline that our city's values were falling to. I left the race out of it and came up with a story that I believed was better and more insightful.
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It is immoral to resist the temptation of identity politics and to dig deeper into the nature of a person or the structure of society at a particular time. When one does so, one often reaches a deeper and deeper meaning that is closer to the truth. This should not be surprising because, after all, character is the truth of a person.
We live in the United States of America and that should mean something. If there is something I learned from the Lord and fighting for civil rights for a long time, it was the lesson of fighting to be a man, an individual. Those warriors on his feet often carried signs that said, “I am a Man.” That was the basis of our struggle and what we were denied during centuries of brutal oppression.
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So why would I betray the Lord for the low level satisfaction of playing identity politics? I chose to walk the path of nature and that choice has brought me many results.
Today I am in the middle of building a $45 million community center where our focus and the foundation of everything we do will be structure. My neighborhood is mostly Black but we raise men and women of character and it is my hope that they will be successful enough that their names will mean something to you one day.