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iv conerly - black movement lyrics

[tom skinner]
i wrote off any christian message. i accepted it as a white man’s attempt to subjugate me, to brainwash me… i soon got the impression that being christian meant that you carried around in your inside pocket a bunch of rules and regulations which read, “don’t do this, stay away from that, don’t touch that, and, for god’s sake, don’t look at that.”… but for the first time i was told that what made a man a sinner was the fact that he does not have god’s life in him

[verse 1: iv conerly]
straight to the point, they say the bible’s been plagiarized
a white man’s religion, they went and tellin’ the people lies
they rewrote history so you don’t even know where you come from
you got your nose in they books lookin’ so dumb
you took his name, you took his wine, you took his {wand?}
he threw you scr-ps to go fetch, you still behind
wait a minute, stop right there
let’s get into some facts, speculation ain’t fair
i guess you don’t like bein’ bright
but {sam mercer?} and ray faulkner, both right
these are your sources, these {optologists?} you tolerate?
and both of these men know history, pontificate
42 laws of maat, and i’m the plagiarist?
but it tells you to respect deity, and you an atheist?
you speak words with no authority in ’em
that’s why we gotta deal with contextual criticism

[tom skinner]
and i was told that the whole reason that god became a man in jesus christ was for the purpose of taking me in my human depravation, my oppression, my mental and spiritual slavery, and taking god in his liberation and bringing us together. but i had a problem with this guy jesus. because everything that i had ever been told about jesus christ gave me the impression that he was some kind of softie

[verse 2: iv conerly]
you say that you a hebrew israelite
i am one inwardly, allow me to recite
romans 2:29, you’re like {?}
luke 13:29, he’s got many sheep
what do you do with ephesians 2 and 14?
and acts chapter 10, cornelius was clean
i love my kinsmen like the apostle
but he didn’t rob other ethnicities of the gospel
yes, i embrace the tetragrammaton
the shema, the tanakh, the torah, and
i got some brothers that are fluent in hebrew
i never met one of you brothers fluent in hebrew
yes, mary was a virgin
yes, jesus is god
there are no “j”s in the hebrew
he’s still yah
we got m-n-scripts, artifacts, all of that
datin’ all the way back, but you deny the facts

[tom skinner]
one, then, must also understand who the real oppressor is. and this is very important, especially for those of us as black… to come to grips with where real oppression lies… [quoting d-ck gregory] “we get angry at that policeman who busts our heads in the black community. but many of us never really understand that the policeman in the black community is the real n-gga. why? because he, too, is oppressed. he’s only taking orders.”

so then when i find out who is oppressing that policeman, then i must find out who is oppressing the man that’s oppressing the policeman. i keep going until i get on a higher plane. then i begin to understand what paul means when he says, “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against princ-p-lities and powers, against the rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

the difficulty for us to understand as christians is who really runs this world, in whose hands the world really belongs…

any gospel that does not talk about delivering to man a personal savior who will free him from the personal bondage of sin and grant him eternal life and does not at the same time speak to the issue of enslavement, does not speak to the issue of injustice, does not speak to the issue of inequality — any gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of jesus christ is not the gospel

- iv conerly lyrics

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