Faith & Reflection: Voices from the Black Church and Beyond
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(ThyBlackMan.com) It is discerning and disturbing to witness young men and women wearing Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) uniforms faces covered descending on playgrounds, slithering into classrooms and institutions of faith with guns and tasers drawn. Interrogating children as to where they were born and where their parents were born.
Recently such a scene played out in New York City in which ICE agents with guns and tasers drawn recently descended on a ball field in New York City where future Mookie Betts, Juan Sotos, Kiki Hernandez were perfecting their games to one day play major league ball. The ICE agents, guns and tasers drawn, interrogated the young ball players as to their citizenship status. It is a scene being played out in Los Angeles and cities and towns throughout the US.
“Well, if they have nothing to hide, they should be happy to answer the question.” How would you like for some stranger to come up to your child and ask, “Is your mother or father having an affair? Is your mother or father secretly in the closet?” Seeing your children in the faces of other children might help to make one more humane.
This is supposed to be America not Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. However, this is America 2025. The Jews of Nazi Germany’s persecution have been replaced by Black and Brown people in America. Nazi Germany had its Schutzstaffel, its SS, and its Gestapo. America in 2025 has ICE.
There is no doubt for many ICE agents it is just a job. They probably had no idea that when they were hired, they would be called on to break into the homes of people whose only crime is the color of their skin, the language that they speak, the country of origin of their parents and grandparents.
They may not be happy with the work they are being forced to do. It is understandable why they cover their faces. They feel ashamed of what they are doing.
Then there are the Nazis, fascists, white nationalists, racists and other psychopaths and sociopaths who wear the ICE uniform. They cover their faces not because they are ashamed of what they do but because they are cowards. Similar to the Klan clowns they hid their faces. Don’t be afraid to show your wives, husbands, children, other family members, friends and neighbors who and what you are.
They view themselves as tough guys but without the gun and taser they are simply just little pussies. Always were, always will be. Big muscle, yes; little brain, yes; no manhood, yes.
With the passage and enactment of the One, Big, Ugly Bill, billions of dollars will be allocated to making ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the US. The ranks of ICE can be expected to grow exponentially. More ICE agents, more raids of playgrounds, classrooms, church, temples and mosques all in the name of making America White Again.
It is easy to focus on ICE and the fear and ugliness that it is causing across the nation. However, the real fear and ugliness is that 77 million Americans voted for this. In addition to the 77 million that voted for this there are many million more who have no problem with what ICE has been directed to do. Have no problem that it is being directed to do what it is doing by a regime which is not only un-American but devoid of the most basic characteristic of being legitimate.
As ugly and un-American as the raids being conducted by ICE at the direction of the current regime, nothing perhaps is uglier and more un-American than the millions of Americans who are content to see nothing, hear nothing and do even less. Who refuse to say this is not Nazi Germany but America.
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