God of the Negro, A Psalm

God of Abrahan, Isaac, and Jacob, God of the White Man and Indian, You are the God of the *****, who created all people of one blood. You are not divided; you are One God. The ***** was made in your image, and crowned with glory and honor. He is superior or inferior to none, but by your design, equal to all. Our fathers were hauled from their homeland, huddled into the hull of ships like cargo, and transported across the oceans. They were sold into slavery and savaged. Then they cried to You in their affliction, and you showed up and succored them. Those who enslaved them became slaves. They worshipped mammon and spurned You. Their hearts became hard as a hammer, and their consciences were corrupted. Our fathers found in You all they needed. You were their joy in sorrow, freedom during slavery, comfort in times of grief, and strength when they were powerless. In the crucible of chattel slavery and the furnace of forced labor, You forged the ***** into a strong, Spiritual, resilient, and resourceful being. Like a Phoenix, he has risen from the ashes, with a passion fueled by the fire in his bosom, and a purpose piloted by the pain of the past. With Your help, the ***** has taken his place, as an equal among the people of the world. But alas, success has turned many away from you. They claim to have pulled themselves up with their bootstrap. Like their masters who worshipped Mannon, they are educated, their pockets are full, but their hearts are lonely, and their souls are empty. They have arrived at their Promised Land, and discovered a barren wasteland, watered by lust that never satisfies, and proffering pleasures that pauperize and pain. Black Man, turn to your God. *****, acknowledge your Creator. Without Him, you are a shell of a man, a figment of your imagination, a fraction of what you were created to be. Value the virtues bequeathed by your fathers. Build on the foundation they laid. They trusted in God and He helped them. They discovered that the God of the Hebrews, the God of the White Man, and the Indian, is the God of the *****.