You’re not a “nigga”!!!
Today, I am coming at you as an ARROW OF DELIVERANCE FOR NATIONS.
The topic of racial injustice in America is an issue that has always been close to my heart, but to be honest it is not an easy thing to address in faith. So today I will approach this as God has lead me to do so.
I was scrolling on Facebook this morning and I saw multiple post about the execution of Nathaniel Woods (Alabama). The news surrounding his case and conviction is very sad and obviously triggered something in me regarding racism in America, but I kept scrolling. Then minutes later I saw a post from one of my Facebook friends stating:
“Court this morning wish a nigga luck!!”
After seeing the news about Mr. Woods and then seeing this post, I was even more triggered. I wanted to comment on this young man’s post “YOU’RE NOT A NIGGA!” but I just kept scrolling.
Thank God that the Holy Spirit instructed me to write it but revise it, so instead I wrote under his post:
“You’re not a “nigga” You’re a child of God!!”
Thankfully he received it and I pray that God begins to transform his mind concerning how he refers/sees himself.
I’m not here to make excuses for racism, prejudice, or injustice against black people in America or any race for that matter, rather I am here as God’s prophet to advise black people in America to seek deliverance from the spirit of self-hate and self sabotage that has plagued our generation for many generations.
I’m sure you have heard the argument before that if black people are offended by other nationalities referring to them as “niggas” or “niggers”, then it should be equally offensive when another black person does it.
If I don’t want someone calling me a “hoe” or “bitch” then I won’t use that term to describe myself either.
This issue goes beyond derogatory terms. At the root of the matter, as I stated before, black people as a nation need deliverance from the spirit of self-hate and self-sabotage. We need to take accountability for how we are represented in the mass media and pop culture. From rap music, to movies, and social media, black culture has failed to take a stand against the glorifying of gang activity, murder, drug dealing/using, and the sexualization of black women. Every where you look in the media, the majority of trending black entertainment portrays black men as thugs/criminals and black women as sex objects.
I know that there are successful black people in this country, both men and women who are making monumental achievements, but so often these positive attributes are severely overshadowed by the more negative and toxic depiction of black people in the news and pop culture.
There are young black boys being accepted into all of the Ivy League schools in the US (Kwasi Enin) and black female doctors curing cancer (Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green) but yet black America would rather focus on Gayle and Oprah, or Dwayne Wade’s son.
Let’s not let cop killings be the only time that we come together in unity about social issues. Let’s be just as outraged about rappers promoting the use of promethazine (lean). Let’s stop supporting women who take their clothes off for money so we don’t sound like hypocrites when we tell young girls to have “self-respect”.
I am really confused about how some black people can go from saying “king and queen” and then recite lyrics where men and women are called “niggas and hoes”.
If you wouldn’t call your children those names, they shouldn’t hear you using those terms in regard to yourself or other black people. If you wouldn’t want your children growing up to be drug dealers and prostitutes, then we shouldn’t expose them to images and sources where those lifestyles are glorified.
Here is the truth:
“you are a CHOSEN RACE, a royal PRIESTHOOD, A CONSECRATED NATION, A [special] PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” - 1 Peter 2: 9 AMP
In the eyes of God we are not hoes, sluts, bitches, niggas, thugs, or gangstas. The bible goes on to say in 2 Corinthians 5:21 AMP “He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious loving kindness]”
“For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].” - Ephesians 2:10 AMP
Once we begin to be transformed by the renewing of our minds (by reading God’s word), we can then collectively walk in our God-given identity and the rest of the world will no longer be able to corrupt or pervert the narrative of who we are like they have done for generations.
It starts with us! The next time you hear a black person call you a nigga/bitch kindly correct them and say;
“ I rebuke that in the name of Jesus, I’m not a nigga/bitch! I’m a child of God”