Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, our Father, and Jesus Christ. Welcome to my blog! I hope the thoughts you find here will encourage you and inspire you to diligently seek God’s Kingdom.
Today, I am feeling renewed. I need to say, I am grateful to this country of ours for my renewal. This country, in 2026, has renewed in me a commitment to be a part of the resistance in this country. We, in what Frederick Haynes calls “the dis-United States of America,” in what W. E. B. DuBois calls “these not yet United States of America,” have elected and preferred a devout racist to be our President. And yes, I said “our”, because we did not do enough to prevent this racist from ascending to this vital office. Some of us have deluded ourselves into believing what ‘white Amerikkka’ wanted you to believe, and we have ‘drank the Kool-Aid.’ We believe that “our vote doesn’t count.” We tried to quote platitudes such as “I don’t do politics,” and in doing so, we have found, to our detriment, that politics will do us! So what our apathy has produced is a sitting president, (when referring to Trump, I cannot spell president with a capital P), that has actually said that the 1964 civil rights bill was harmful.
From his interview discussing the 1964 Civil Rights Act and affirmative action:
“The president said the 1964 Civil Rights Act … ‘accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people.’ … ‘People that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job,’ Trump told the New York Times. ‘So it was, it was a reverse discrimination.’” (Trump says DEI, civil rights policies hurt White people. Do they? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/12/dei-civil-rights-trump-white-people/88147329007/)
In another account of the same interview: “the president declared that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 … led to white people being ‘very badly treated.’ … ‘White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university to college,’ he said, an apparent reference to affirmative action in college admissions.” (Trump echoes segregationists with Civil Rights Act criticism – MS NOW https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-white-people-very-badly-treated-civil-rights-act)
The scripture says:
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV)
These sentiments from president Trump are not new. I am reminded of the writing of Frederick Douglas. Douglas wrote about learning to read while he was still a slave. His master’s wife would read scripture out loud in the house and he being curious asked her to teach him to read, which she did. Being impressed with his aptitude and her ‘skill’ in teaching her slave to read, she decided to show her husband her accomplishment. Douglas wrote of his response.
“Master Hugh was amazed at the simplicity of his spouse, and, probably for the first time, he unfolded to her the true philosophy of slavery, and the peculiar rules necessary to be observed by masters and mistresses, in the management of their human chattels. Mr. Auld promptly forbade continuance of her instruction; telling her, in the first place, that the thing itself was unlawful; that it was also unsafe, and could only lead to mischief. To use his own words, further, he said, “if you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell”; “he should know nothing but the will of his master, and learn to obey it”; “if you teach that nigger—speaking of myself—how to read the bible, there will be no keeping him”; “it would forever unfit him for the duties of a slave”; and “as to himself, learning would do him no good, but probably, a great deal of harm—making him disconsolate and unhappy.” “If you learn him now to read, he’ll want to know how to write; and, this accomplished, he’ll be running away with himself.” Such was the tenor of Master Hugh’s oracular exposition of the true philosophy of training a human chattel;” (Douglass, Frederick. The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches (p. 10). (Function). Kindle Edition.)
A few thoughts: it would seem that Mr. Auld and president Trump have the same view on America and its “philosophy of training a human chattel.” “In the first place, that the thing itself was unlawful.” It amazes me that as a people we still believe that the word of our oppressor is still more valuable than our own counsel. “People who deserve to go to college or deserve to get the job were unable to get the job.” Yet, we still delude ourselves that our education is not important. If our education is not important, why is white Amerikkka still trying to prevent our success in academia? They are going to court to prevent you from getting educated. A Cushite reading is still a problem for them.
Mr. Auld also agrees with president Trump in his assertion, “if you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell.” That ell was the Presidency of the United States. It was the Supreme Court. It is becoming Speaker of the House. It is becoming one of several Cushite billionaires. Why is it a problem? Because, as Mr. Auld articulated, that we, Cushite America, “should know nothing but the will of his master, and learn to obey it”; “if you teach that nigger—speaking of myself—how to read the Bible, there will be no keeping him”; “it would forever unfit him for the duties of a slave.”
I decree “THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE!” I am part of the resistance. I Read as Rresistance. The primary source for this resistance is the Holy Bible! Not only that, but reading is my act of resistance. Not just reading as resistance, but I have obtained my credentials as a scholar. I have matriculated through some of the finest universities and by the grace of God have achieved. I know the value of resisting.
So I have my book list for the year 2026. It is my intention to get my “ell.” Do you have your book list? Will you be part of the resistance? I decree that we as Cushites will “forever be unfit for the duties of a slave!”
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon, D.Min., M.Div.,
In His Presence Family Worship Center
In Scripture, a Cushite is a person from the land of Cush (also spelled Kush), traditionally associated with the Upper Nile region, often linked with parts of modern Sudan/Ethiopia and sometimes rendered “Ethiopian” in English translations. The term can refer both to the descendants of Cush, the son of Ham and grandson of Noah, and to inhabitants of that region mentioned throughout the Old Testament (for example, Numbers 12:1; 2 Samuel 18; Jeremiah 38).
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