Jesus In The Ghetto

"They were being educated that if they work hard within their education they would move out of the Ghetto into the lush green and sweet incensed neighborhoods but were not learning why they were in the Ghetto in the first place. To be proud to be from the Ghetto but letting that pride distort one's mindset results in the fall before one gets to the top or rises to have pride. Jesus should tell us why we divide and segregate ourselves in the Ghetto when we are living under segregation."

One heap of them stood firmly by the corner of the road but was haunted by an unstable mindset. On their opposite, they were those who put their hopes in education but were not learning how the world and their educational institutions were miseducating them. Then they were those who had formed a circle of the 'elite' and enlightened with the interests of succeeding in and out of the Ghetto but each within that circle had their own goals that they wished the circle would help them achieve before they got to the core formation of the circle. Furthermore, there was a religious sect that put faith in their beliefs but had no faith in themselves and did not believe in having the hope of self-independence with the freedom of thought. Another group had dreams but without a guided vision and they were those who were despised for making a 'living' at the expense of their humanity. Despite the difference between these groups of people with their radical intolerance and structured hate towards one another, they made the same prayer each hour hoping that Jesus would come to the Ghetto but tragically the Jesus they were hoping for was not the anointed Messiah. Finally, there was me and no one was similar nor identical to me in all aspects for I was me.

It was a blessed tragedy that at each evolving point of my life I found myself intertwined with these different groups of people and I came to know them accurately as I was struggling for true self-actualization.

I firstly stood by but not with the heap of people that stood firmly by the corner of the road but were being haunted by an unstable mindset. I was by them not with them. They had hopes of bringing Heaven to the Ghetto but did not know exactly how to do it, though they had adopted some ideas but were ignorant to the fact that one size does not fit all even if you are from the same house and were raised or grew up alike. They searched for Heaven but did not find it, for they were made to believe that though they were righteous they were not holy enough to enter the gates of Heaven nor bring Heaven to the Ghetto. They had either sacrificed their education which was the key to success or had been denied the right to education for either way the right to education was and is privatized. So they had drawn up an illogical but believable scheme to succeed. They saw education to be a hindrance to that which they desired to possess but with no passion. Tragically, they found themselves back where they started and eventually worse off than they were before. For their hopes to dream of a better tomorrow were thwarted before they even had hoped. Why? For they were from the Ghetto? They then made a firm decision to stand by the corner of the Ghetto and began to look up to Jesus to come to the Ghetto to save and serve them. For Jesus at one point had mentioned that he would save and serve them, then reinforced his coming but they knew that when he would come, he Jesus would serve his interests alone yet they kept believing in a Jesus who was not the Messiah.

I evolved into a group of people in the opposite corner. The ones who put their hopes in education but were not learning how the world and their educational institutions were miseducating them. They had planned to get educated in the higher 'learning' institutions, then thought they would succeed outside of the Ghetto. Maybe they were not paying attention that most of those whom they despised and surrounded them in the Ghetto were educated by the same system that they were in. They were being educated on how the world worked but not learning how and why it functioned the way it did. They were being educated that if they worked hard within their education they would move out of the Ghetto into the lush green and sweet incensed neighborhoods but were not learning why they were in the Ghetto in the first place. Their only key to success was the one that they were to be offered by education but education was not making them learn that they were various doors to success and the key to education could only open one door, which was not clear to locate. Hence they could and would find themselves attempting to open another door of success with the wrong key of education. Now they find themselves progressing to stand with the heap of people that stand firmly by the corner of the road and are haunted by an unstable mindset despite having the tool that can change the world. They desperately wait for Jesus to come to the Ghetto to be saved all at once despite their individuality in their unity. To be proud to be from the Ghetto but letting that pride distort one's mindset results in the fall before one ever gets to the top or rises to have pride.

I could not be part of the circle of the 'elite' and enlightened, though I was enlightened but with a

different light. The 'elite' and enlightened had the interests of succeeding in and out of the Ghetto but each within that circle had their own goals that they wished the circle would help them achieve before they got to the core formation of the circle. The 'elite' and the enlightened of the Ghetto formed a Ghetto within a Ghetto. They segregated those who did not have a vision like theirs and who did not act like their vision. They wanted to be the chosen ones who would emerge out of the Ghetto into the lush green and sweet incensed neighborhoods and not also liberate those in the Ghetto outside their 'elite' and enlightened circles. So that they would be the Ghetto idols but not role models. Their demise was foretold the moment they began empowering themselves to rule the Ghetto and not lead it to the promised land.

Each of them felt that their 'eliteness' and enlightenment was both a right and a privilege that the next 'elite' and enlightened person could not tell them anything nor advise them. It was either one who would agree with your view and work according to your vision, if not that person was an enemy of progress whose enlightenment had been clouded by darkness. They were individualistic within their unity, if they were disunited or had factions within their circle it could have been a better tragedy. The same people they had segregated were the ones whom they needed their aid to make progress but their elite pride told them otherwise. They haphazardly found themselves in the corner where they were destined to be. Surrounded by the educated but not learned. The 'elite' and enlightened found themselves incorporated by the heap of people that stood firmly by the corner of the road but were haunted by an unstable mindset. They began to sing and recite tunes for the day that Jesus would come to the Ghetto but were still not enlightened if their Jesus would be the Messiah.

Maybe if Jesus comes to the Ghetto he could tell us why we have segregation camps in a modern and liberal era. He could tell us why we become hopeless the moment we begin to think of having hope. Why did he say he is the Messiah but we are not seeing his grace? Why do we divide and segregate ourselves when we are living under segregation? Why human rights are privatized but they are free? Why do we have faith but no work, Faith without works is dead but we have nothing to work with or on. Why he lives in the lush green and sweet incensed neighborhood and he won't take us there or turn the Ghetto into one?