CHRISTIAN?

I OFTEN WONDER

IF JESUS

WISHES HIS FOLLOWERS

WOULD USE ANOTHER TITLE

HIS FOLLOWERS

OFTEN GIVE HIM A BAD NAME

I’VE SPENT A WEEK

ON THE SEA ISLANDS

WHERE THE GULLAH PEOPLE LIVE

BROUGHT TO AMERICA AS SLAVES

BECAUSE FREE MEN’S LABOR

WAS TOO EXPENSIVE

SINCE IT WAS PROFITABLE

IT HAD TO BE RIGHT

AND SOME SOUTHERN CHURCHES

USED THE BIBLE

TO PROVE IT

THE GULLAH PEOPLE

BROUGHT OVER TO WORK THE RICE PLANTATIONS

IN AN AREA SWAMPY

UNHEALTHY FOR WHITE MEN

WERE LEFT TO FARM ALONE

SUPERVISED BY A FELLOW BLACKMAN

CALLED A SLAVE DRIVER

TODAY WE WOULD CALL HIM A KAPO

LEFT ALONE

THEY FORMED THEIR OWN CULTURE

AND CREOLIZED SPEECH

AFTER FREEDOM

THERE WERE NO SCHOOLS FOR THEM

UNTIL A UNITARIAN WOMAN CAME

A UNITARIAN

NOT A FULL FLEDGED CHRISTIAN

WHEN SCHOOLS WERE PROVIDED

THEY WERE ATROCIOUS

SEPARATE

BUT EQUAL WAS THE LAW

THE COST PER STUDENTS

IN JUST SOUTH CAROLINA

WAS A DOLLAR SEVENTEEN FOR BLACKS

TWELVE DOLLARS FOR WHITES

AND THE GREAT LEGISLATORS

WHO BOLDLY PROCLAIMED A CHRISTIAN NATION

SLEEP PEACEFULLY

CONTENT THAT GOD WAS ON THEIR SIDE

BUT A PHILANTHROPIC JEW

BUILT SCHOOLS

AND SUPPORTED THEM

FROM HIS OWN POCKET

HE BELIEVED IN HIS BIBLE

IN HIS FAITH

THAT NO MAN BORN IN GOD’S IMAGE

IS THROWAWAY

ALSO HE SAID

THE HORRORS THAT ARE DUE TO RACE PREJUDICE

COME HOME TO THE JEW

MORE FORCEFULLY THAN TO OTHERS

OF THE WHITE RACE

ON ACCOUNT OF THE CENTURIES OF PERSECUTION

WHICH THEY HAVE SUFFERED AND STILL SUFFER

A PERSECUTION LARGELY CHRISTIAN BASED

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

IF WE BELIEVE IT

SHOULDN’T WE LIVE IT

AREN’T WE HYPOCRITES

WHEN WE SAY WE DO

AND LIVE

OTHERWISE

WE HANG A CROSS

ABOVE AN ALTAR

A SIGN OF CHRIST TRIUMPHANT

FORGETTING SOMETIMES

IT TAKES A GOOD FRIDAY

TO MAKE AN EASTER

A DYING

TO BE REBORN

WOULD

THAT WE ALL WOULD HAVE

A GOOD FRIDAY

TO BE REBORN

TO LIVE AS PEOPLE

WHO HAVE BEEN REDEEMED

THEN CHRIST

WOULD BE PROUD

WE BEAR HIS NAME

FRANK A VOLLMER