Comments on: Pardon me http://nativenotes.net/2008/04/09/pardon-me-40/ Where Spirituality, Hip-Hop & Politics Meet! Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sam http://nativenotes.net/2008/04/09/pardon-me-40/#comment-151 Sam Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:48:58 +0000 http://nativenotes.wordpress.com/?p=204#comment-151 Great essay! "My brother's keeper"-- befitting title for law school. I think the jealousy in our community is rooted in anger. It's a stifling and sometimes overwhelming type of anger-- from white racism and also black rejection. I think that Cain thought that God rejected him. I think we sometimes feel rejected by our community. It becomes difficult to exist in an anomalous white culture without a supportive black culture. For me...I try to fight that anger everyday...so that I can survive, to help someone from my own community, master what Cain couldn't. Great essay! “My brother’s keeper”– befitting title for law school.

I think the jealousy in our community is rooted in anger. It’s a stifling and sometimes overwhelming type of anger– from white racism and also black rejection. I think that Cain thought that God rejected him. I think we sometimes feel rejected by our community. It becomes difficult to exist in an anomalous white culture without a supportive black culture.

For me…I try to fight that anger everyday…so that I can survive, to help someone from my own community, master what Cain couldn’t.

]]> By: anonymous http://nativenotes.net/2008/04/09/pardon-me-40/#comment-149 anonymous Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:35:46 +0000 http://nativenotes.wordpress.com/?p=204#comment-149 i hear you i hear you

]]> By: sethandray http://nativenotes.net/2008/04/09/pardon-me-40/#comment-150 sethandray Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:34:51 +0000 http://nativenotes.wordpress.com/?p=204#comment-150 Although you are right on addressing the violence and hatred in our communities, this verse also speaks to me in another powerful way. I was struck by the line where it reads "But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it." To me, this is God's way of saying that he understands what we go through on a daily basis. He is fully aware of every emotion that we deal with when facing sin. However, he also makes it plainly clear that we He has created us with the ability to MASTER sin. And by saying that we MUST master sin, then there must be a reason for that. God knows that we don't have to fall to sin and expects us not to. It's something that we have to realize ourselves and I think this verse does a good job of explaining that. http://sethandray.wordpress.com/ Although you are right on addressing the violence and hatred in our communities, this verse also speaks to me in another powerful way. I was struck by the line where it reads “But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”

To me, this is God’s way of saying that he understands what we go through on a daily basis. He is fully aware of every emotion that we deal with when facing sin. However, he also makes it plainly clear that we He has created us with the ability to MASTER sin. And by saying that we MUST master sin, then there must be a reason for that. God knows that we don’t have to fall to sin and expects us not to. It’s something that we have to realize ourselves and I think this verse does a good job of explaining that.

http://sethandray.wordpress.com/

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