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The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood
For a half century or more, black people have labored under the spell of what Jesse Lee Peterson calls the “alchemists.” These are the race hustlers, media hacks, politicians, community organizers and the like who promise to “fundamentally transform” America. The transformation they promise, however, produces only fool’s gold—unearned benefits like welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, payouts from lawsuits, and maybe one day even reparations. Worse, to secure these counterfeit goods, recipients have to sacrifice something of infinite the sanctity of the two-parent family. It is a devil’s bargain.
To make this experiment work, the alchemists have created an ungodly and unhealthy environment, one in which the white population is made to feel guilty and the black population made to feel angry. The pattern in this is children—black or white—when deprived of fathers, grow up angry at their parents. White children displace their anger in a thousand different directions. Black children channel theirs, for the most part, in a single destructive direction—towards and against white people. The alchemists encourage them to do this, enable them, and even reward them. This anger fuels the system and pays the alchemists’ bills.
As bleak as this all sounds, an antidote exists, which saved Peterson’s life, that of his son, and those of countless young men who have been counseled at Peterson’s organization, BOND.
The perverse genius of liberalism has been its ability to capture black anger and project it outwards towards anyone, black or white, who resists the Democratic agenda. By encouraging a resentful dependency, liberals have instituted a new kind of slavery in the black community as emotionally shackling as the physical slavery that first brought Africans to America.
Peterson knows this story from the inside as few other people do. Born on an Alabama plantation, he was abandoned by his father before he was born. After high school, Peterson moved to Los Angeles and for the next twenty years moved purposelessly through life, channeling his internal anger outwards towards white people and America in general.
In the mission he has undertaken since, and in this hopeful book, Peterson shares what he learned on his personal road to Damascus.
To make this experiment work, the alchemists have created an ungodly and unhealthy environment, one in which the white population is made to feel guilty and the black population made to feel angry. The pattern in this is children—black or white—when deprived of fathers, grow up angry at their parents. White children displace their anger in a thousand different directions. Black children channel theirs, for the most part, in a single destructive direction—towards and against white people. The alchemists encourage them to do this, enable them, and even reward them. This anger fuels the system and pays the alchemists’ bills.
As bleak as this all sounds, an antidote exists, which saved Peterson’s life, that of his son, and those of countless young men who have been counseled at Peterson’s organization, BOND.
The perverse genius of liberalism has been its ability to capture black anger and project it outwards towards anyone, black or white, who resists the Democratic agenda. By encouraging a resentful dependency, liberals have instituted a new kind of slavery in the black community as emotionally shackling as the physical slavery that first brought Africans to America.
Peterson knows this story from the inside as few other people do. Born on an Alabama plantation, he was abandoned by his father before he was born. After high school, Peterson moved to Los Angeles and for the next twenty years moved purposelessly through life, channeling his internal anger outwards towards white people and America in general.
In the mission he has undertaken since, and in this hopeful book, Peterson shares what he learned on his personal road to Damascus.
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First published November 24, 2015
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Jesse Lee Peterson
7 books44 followersJesse Lee Peterson is the most courageous, outspoken critic of the so-called "Civil Rights" establishment today. He’s a radio and TV talk show host, activist, author, pastor and counselor.
Jesse grew up on a plantation near Tuskegee, Alabama, during the Jim Crow era, before moving to Los Angeles as a young man. He's the founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (est. 1990), dedicated to "Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man."
At BOND, he offers Counseling for individuals, couples and families, Church services, Men's Forums, Women's Forums, an Entrepreneur Academy, and a Home for Young Men. Jesse has spoken spoken in many schools and universities, conferences and rallies, and even prisons and juvenile detention centers.
Jesse grew up on a plantation near Tuskegee, Alabama, during the Jim Crow era, before moving to Los Angeles as a young man. He's the founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (est. 1990), dedicated to "Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man."
At BOND, he offers Counseling for individuals, couples and families, Church services, Men's Forums, Women's Forums, an Entrepreneur Academy, and a Home for Young Men. Jesse has spoken spoken in many schools and universities, conferences and rallies, and even prisons and juvenile detention centers.
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September 8, 2016
Excellent! Must read!
Just recently I heard about Jesse and started listening to him. This book further opened my eyes to the reality we are all living today. Although he speaks of Blacks, I see so much of this in the Latino culture as well. Being a white Latina I was led to believe the lies about privilege and the guilt I should feel for Latinos who were not doing as well as myself. After many years of falling for the same type of backlash and lies from other Latinos, and living among them, I have finally realized their lack of achievement has little to do with racism, as they told me before and everything to do with their upbringing and hate towards whites, including white Latinos. Everything Jesse states in this book applies to our community and juat as Blacks do not want the truth to get out, neither do Latinos in the media, etc.
Just recently I heard about Jesse and started listening to him. This book further opened my eyes to the reality we are all living today. Although he speaks of Blacks, I see so much of this in the Latino culture as well. Being a white Latina I was led to believe the lies about privilege and the guilt I should feel for Latinos who were not doing as well as myself. After many years of falling for the same type of backlash and lies from other Latinos, and living among them, I have finally realized their lack of achievement has little to do with racism, as they told me before and everything to do with their upbringing and hate towards whites, including white Latinos. Everything Jesse states in this book applies to our community and juat as Blacks do not want the truth to get out, neither do Latinos in the media, etc.
June 11, 2020
I really enjoyed reading this book! It is well written and thoughtful. As a once troubled black youth myself I understand the anger that burns in the hearts and minds of fatherless boys! My own book recounts my personal struggles and eventual redemption from lifeview confusion. God has blessed Jesse with fearlessness and grace. This book is truly about the "conversation America needs to have about race." I encourage all black and brown people to read this.
Excellent read for anyone struggling with racial anger or seeking answers to the destructive effects of a fatherless home.
A must read!
Excellent read for anyone struggling with racial anger or seeking answers to the destructive effects of a fatherless home.
A must read!
July 18, 2017
Finally some truth from the black community
A terI hate. We are all Americans it should be American community. Rev. Jesse Lee is awesome watch his pod-cast The Fallen State. A truth seeker and man on a mission to out the greatest lie of our generation. The culture of black victimhood
A terI hate. We are all Americans it should be American community. Rev. Jesse Lee is awesome watch his pod-cast The Fallen State. A truth seeker and man on a mission to out the greatest lie of our generation. The culture of black victimhood
September 2, 2018
The Truth about Black people
This book is indeed the best piece of literature out there that talks about black people in America, their culture, history and present. Opened my eyes to a lot of lies in black American culture nowadays.
This book is indeed the best piece of literature out there that talks about black people in America, their culture, history and present. Opened my eyes to a lot of lies in black American culture nowadays.
July 5, 2019
Some real truths about our society are revealed by this author. Hard sometimes to see this point of view. Thought provoking for sure. His unique opinions are shared. He is a part of this group so very credible point of view.
May 9, 2018
Recommended with minor reservations.
This is a brave book challenging the common narrative surrounding racism. The status quo is that the black community is being held back by white racism, but, as Peterson demonstrates, the real issue is internal: anger within the family with fatherlessness as the impetus. Anger that gripped Peterson, Tupac, OJ Simpson, and... myself. Peterson walks through he lives of these men, and more, showing how the issue isn't racism, but rather racism is the scapegoat that holds the community back.
The antidote? Forgiveness and personal responsibility. And that forgiveness can be only brought about by God. My only reservation is that he says that you can look in yourself and find God. I disagree, but he does acknowledge that it's Jesus at the end of the day.
I'm not doing this book justice. Go read it.
This is a brave book challenging the common narrative surrounding racism. The status quo is that the black community is being held back by white racism, but, as Peterson demonstrates, the real issue is internal: anger within the family with fatherlessness as the impetus. Anger that gripped Peterson, Tupac, OJ Simpson, and... myself. Peterson walks through he lives of these men, and more, showing how the issue isn't racism, but rather racism is the scapegoat that holds the community back.
The antidote? Forgiveness and personal responsibility. And that forgiveness can be only brought about by God. My only reservation is that he says that you can look in yourself and find God. I disagree, but he does acknowledge that it's Jesus at the end of the day.
I'm not doing this book justice. Go read it.
December 27, 2015
Very interesting and well written!
November 25, 2018
Love this book! Very eye opening
Love this book. Very eye opening.
I'm happy I got to read this book. Every man should read this! Now!
Love this book. Very eye opening.
I'm happy I got to read this book. Every man should read this! Now!
November 17, 2025
One of the greatest books I’ve ever read on what is wrong with America (fatherlessness) and how to fix it (forgiveness and seeking Jesus in all you do). Here are my notes below.
By far the greatest black man God ever created, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson!
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Without parents to give him direction along the way, he grew up feeling lost on the inside… On the threshold of manhood, he had no idea of how a real man lived his life.
Telling him to go out and find a job and perform well enough to keep a job was like telling him to grow a pair of wings and fly.
- p3
For all the abuse a mother might throw at her son, she will almost always defend him blindly from accusations of wrongdoing, no matter how legitimate, especially if white people are doing the accusing.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and bad parents raise rotten children. Micheal Brown is dead because his parents failed him, and because he failed himself.
- p10
The practice of alchemy came into Europe by way of the Islamic world in the 12th century.
To secure these counterfeit goods (the welfare state), recipients have to sacrifice something of infinite value: the sanctity of the two-parent family. It is a devil’s bargain.
To make this experiment work, the alchemists have created an ungodly and unhealthy environment, one in which the white population is made to feel guilty and the black population is made to feel angry.
- p13
The antidote is summarized in two key concepts, forgiveness and truth. (Paraphrased)
- p14
Too many blacks today refuse to recognize their bondage. Toward those who offer freedom, they react violently.
- p35
Fixating on blackness narrows horizons. It does not expand them.
Black history is American history, and any attempt to detach the two separates blacks from their country and empowers useless black “leaders.”.. These programs are more about hating white people than they are about loving black people.
- p40
The sad truth is that no people anywhere are encouraged to ignore their blessings and nurse their grudges the way black Americans are.
- p42
In Africa, in the Caribbean, in South America, even in Alabama, you see black kids with beautiful, unforced smiles. In America’s inner cities, you almost never see that. This is not a result of slavery. This is the result of a civil rights movement gone bad.
- p43
“Blues is the foundation of jazz as well as the prime source of rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and country music.”
If blues evolved from hymns, where did blacks learn the hymns? Not in Africa. They learned them in Christian churches here in America.
There were no trumpets in black Africa unless the British brought them.
Multiculturalism today means “I’m okay; you’re not.”
The message should be, “Look what we have accomplished as Americans.” That is a great unifying message, and it gives any ethnic group in America more pride of ownership in more great enterprises than would be possible anywhere else in the world. By contrast, “blackness” puts our imagination in chains and ghettoizes our dreams.
- p44
If Malcolm X had seen the light the way I had, if he had looked within and forgiven those who wronged him, he would have had a different story to tell.
- p47
Malcolm X faced dangers, but not from white people.
- p48
Instead of fretting about how imperfect their lives are, I challenge black Americans to get over their “blackness” and start building character.
Over the past 50 years, blacks have been seduced away from their character and truth.
Their “leaders” have convinced them that their struggle is a physical battle with white and that America is a racist nation.
The truth is that there is good and bad in every race, and every human being is engaged in a spiritual battle of good versus evil.
- p52
Just as today, socialist theory appealed to the sense of superiority of the highly educated.
- p53
He (WEB Du Bois) also refused to acknowledge that it was the white man who introduced America’s blacks to the greatest gift they could ever receive, the saving grace of Jesus Christ
- p54
Today, black preachers are more likely to address the sins of the white man than they are the sins of their own congregates.
- p55
Obama owed his success to the fact that he thought and talked just like a white elitist but look like a black man.
- p56
No race can prosper till it learns that there is much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must behind and not at the top.” - Booker T. Washington
- p61
As Booker T. Washington warned in his Atlanta speech, if blacks were not allowed to secure a trade and earn their self-respect, “We shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.”
- p66
To own a car (is), the first step toward a middle-class life in every city but the densest few, like New York.
- p67
Dr. Ben Carson was the first man to ever successfully separate Siamese twins joined at the brain.
- p69
The bottom line is that Obama never really learned anything, never came to grips with his own internal strife. He found no peace in Christianity because the Christianity he halfheartedly adopted had nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with Jeremiah Wright.
Obama’s real religion was socialism.
- p72
And you don’t need to be a sociologist to see that his (Richard Pryor’s) to see that his failures were not the fault of white America but of a deformed, godless family life.
- p74
Anger has a way of crippling people in ways that are rarely talked about.
- p76
Today, too many young black men, like Peace and Pryor, have turned their backs on God. Like them both, they wallow in their anger and assume the role of “nigger” as a perverse badge of honor.
There is a vicious cycle at work here. A man is attracted to a woman who has a spirit similar to his mother’s, but he leaves her upon sensing this is the same spirit he resented growing up. The father’s absence makes the mother the influential figure in the family. But her anger toward the man who left her is so great that she cannot easily be a positive influence. The black youth is victimized by his mother’s dominant hatred. With no father as a figure of guidance and respect, the child yields readily, as Pryor did, to the force of darkness.
- p77-78
It would not surprise me if God were tempted to pull the plug on our (black) people as He did in Noah’s time.
- p78
Not long after Obama’s (June 2008) speech (at Apostolic Church of God in South Side Chicago) (Jesse) Jackson’s true feelings “slipped out” on a hot mic before a TV appearances “I wanna cut his nuts out,” Jackson said to the fellow next to him. “Barack- he’s talking down to black people- telling niggers how to behave.”
- p79
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket.” - Eric Hoffer
- p81
Once I opened my heart to God’s love, He drove away all my fear.
- p84
They (homosexuals) have never been hung from trees or denied basic human rights.
No one ever told gays they could not vote or sit in the front of a bus or drink out of a particular water fountain.
- p87
The anger that children feel upon being abandoned is a universal phenomenon.
- p88
500,000 black babies are killed in the womb each year- roughly 3x the rate of white babies. This is a symptom of an ongoing war between men and women in which women lack confidence that the men will provide for these children once born, and men lack the authority to protect their children’s lives in the womb.
- p88
Today if a white man says something that race hustlers find offensive, he is expected to go kiss the ring of one or both of these hucksters. All that really accomplishes is to show the supplicant sweetness, and strengthen the hands of Jackson and Sharpton
- p99
Whites always have to watch what they say. Blacks do not. thank goodness for black comedians. If not for them, no one would be able to point out the occasional absurditiesof black culture.
-p100
If black Americans – all Americans, for that matter – are to save the nation, they have to reject the culture of blame. His culture lead to a false sense of entitlement, an unquenched fury, and an alienation from conscious and country. The blame mentality affects Americans of every race, putting us at odds with each other – black versus white, woman versus men, children, versus parents, poor versus rich– and dragging our nation to the brink.
-p103
Black on white violence is as dramatic for White as White on black violence ones for blacks in the pre-rights era. Black’s treasure their scars. Whites are not allowed to acknowledge them.
- p110
The blaming mentality could not exist in a vacuum. The fuel that gives it life is white guilt.
- p111
O.J. Simpson‘s dad was gay, abandoned him and died of AIDS. Paraphrased.
- p119
In identifying with women in their family, they (boys) lack the strength and resolution to become the men’s society needs them to be.
- p119
Like so many men deprived of fathers, he (OJ Simpson) was, in a way, always on the outside, looking in. Unable or unwilling to see himself for who he was, he could only see who he was not.
- p125
He may have quietly hated her, but he would tell the world he loved her. It is a complex, screwed up relationship, the one that affects most males abandoned by their fathers and raised by their mothers.
- p126
Black children are nearly eight times likelier than white kids to live in a home with a single mother.
Black two-parent families outearn black single-parent homes 4-1
BSFs are 5x more likely to live in poverty than B2PF
- p128
Why do progressive thought leaders scold anyone who talks about the most basic safety issue? The reason is that the nuclear family is the single greatest deterrent to socialism.
- p133
When they (the race hustlers/grievance mongers) hear a racial slur – or even something that sounds like a slur – what they really hear is the cha-ching of a cash register. The object of the game is to make white people feel guilty and control them through their guilt.
The coarsening of the language goes hand in glove with the coarsening of the culture.
Black leaders need to take some responsibility for the cultural breakdown. Too often they ignore bad behavior or even applaud it as “authentic,” but it is not even that.
- p136
Jesse Jackson fathered a child outside lf his marriage in his fifties, as an ordained minister and “moral leader” of black America.
-p151
Life is renewed through love, and real love is spiritual love, God’s love passing through us. Rappers like Eminem, white or black, are not capable of writing love songs.
In a strong, stable marriage, the children absorb the sanctified love between their mother and father and are nurtured by it.
- p155
Unable to attract males through their womanliness, they (black females) imitate them.
Due to a man’s separation from God, he lacks the strength to assume his rightful place as head of his wife, and she loses respect for his authority. For example, men have lost the authority to keep their own child, as women make the “choice” to kill their unborn children.
What men don’t understand is that it’s the spirit of their mothers they must overcome to be a man.
- p158
The problem is not local, and it is not a lack of funding. The problem is a lack of fathers and mothers passing their anger on to the children. No amount of “programming” will change that.
- p160
“The problem is babies (13-17 years of age) having babies too.”… These young women grow up angry and stressed out, and they transfer that anger to their children long before they learn how to understand it themselves, let alone cope with it.
Without fathers in the home, these young women often suffer from a spiritual breakdown. They grow up hard and cynical, and they are getting harder and more cynical by the generation. They have sex to offer but little else. Men use them but don’t want them.
If the woman is the major breadwinner in the family, the man will have a hard time establishing his sense of self-worth and independence.
- p161/162
In my experience, many well-educated black women are overly sensitive to the least slight from anyone, male or female, black or white. They have been taught from an early age that the system works against them- both for being black and for being female- and they are looking for proof that this is so.
- p162
Too many young black women today grow up like Banks, in homes where anger is the norm and trust is unheard of. Given this kind of start, they focus on superficial things, like skin color and even “furniture,” and ignore the things that matter, like forgiveness, redemption, and love. A generous, unforced smile can make anyone beautiful, but only love can produce those smiles, and only security can produce love.
- p164
Anger is not something you control. It controls you. When we let anger control our souls, we all lose.
- p167
Paternal abandonment and abuse can fill the children left behind with murderous rage.
- p169
Unwilling to face his own failures as a son, father, and man, (John Allen) Muhammad transferred his wrath toward America.
- p171
He (Omar Thornton) was not the victim of racism- institutional or otherwise. if he was the victim of anything, it was of a disordered home life and of society’s refusal to acknowledge the emotional fallout from that disorder.
The pattern stares the media in the face-angry black man displaces his anger from his parents to the white man-but the media either avert their gaze or blame the white man. It is so much easier than telling the truth.
- p174
Anger makes people irresponsible and inconsiderate. Angry people have no love and respect for themselves and or for their fellow man. They often have no functioning inner compass to override their anger.
- p177-178
There is something about approaching thirty that makes a young man reassess his life. By this time, a man should have arrived or at least be on the way to his destination. He is not a child anymore.
- p179
Racist anger, black or white, infantilizes anyone who harbors it. God changed my heart, and I was blessed to be able to let go and forgive.
- p180
The abandonment of a child by his father creates a void in that child’s life that he will almost always fill in a negative way, and you can see it in his face.
- p183
Love is simply not hating. If men love like this, their wives and children will be richly blessed.
If the child’s father does leave, she need to remind her children that the father who left the home did not leave because of them. Unfortunately, it is the rare single mother who is strong enough to share that message with her children. Too many mothers would rather hurt the “baby daddy” than help the baby.
- p184
When people see the devil inside them, they set that devil on fire. Much like JLP imagined how Judas saw himself before hanging himself (paraphrased)
We as human being will never become our best selves unless we seek God first.
You are, however, not going to find God in a building. You will find Him when you look at yourself and see the truth of what you’ve become through your anger.
This is where self-knowledge begins. If you are to overcome your image of yourself as victim, you must see yourself for who you are.
So much of what makes you feel victimized is anger. You are angry, but you don’t know what you are angry about.
… I have found, and know from experience, that one of the greatest sources of anger is the lack of a father in the home.
Those who turn away from their earthly father turn away from their spiritual Father as well. They can never learn to know and love God if their heart is filled with hate. We must all strive to forgive. It is God who allows us to forgive and reunite. What salvation is really about is a return to the Father.
- p188
Unfortunately, “victims” never accept blame, rarely forgive others, and do not grow up until they cast off the shackles of victimhood.
- p190
Son, with a marketable skill you are much better able to start thinking about a wife and children.
If you only see your kids when you feel like it, you have abandoned them.
Feminists often condemn this passage (Ephesians 5:22) for seeming backward and undemocratic, but a family is not a democracy. At its best, it is an organic unit through which order and love flow.
… In a family that lives by this creed, there is no abuse, no neglect, no intimidation, no fear. The husband grows strong. The wife blossoms. The children flourish.
- p191
Forgiveness, remember, is a spiritual gift God can give us only when we admit we are wrong.
… I am hopeful enough to think those who will free black America just might begin by reading this book. It will take some especially strong people to throw off so much entrenched evil, but if they succeed, the rewards will be astonishing.
- p193
By far the greatest black man God ever created, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson!
.
.
.
Without parents to give him direction along the way, he grew up feeling lost on the inside… On the threshold of manhood, he had no idea of how a real man lived his life.
Telling him to go out and find a job and perform well enough to keep a job was like telling him to grow a pair of wings and fly.
- p3
For all the abuse a mother might throw at her son, she will almost always defend him blindly from accusations of wrongdoing, no matter how legitimate, especially if white people are doing the accusing.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and bad parents raise rotten children. Micheal Brown is dead because his parents failed him, and because he failed himself.
- p10
The practice of alchemy came into Europe by way of the Islamic world in the 12th century.
To secure these counterfeit goods (the welfare state), recipients have to sacrifice something of infinite value: the sanctity of the two-parent family. It is a devil’s bargain.
To make this experiment work, the alchemists have created an ungodly and unhealthy environment, one in which the white population is made to feel guilty and the black population is made to feel angry.
- p13
The antidote is summarized in two key concepts, forgiveness and truth. (Paraphrased)
- p14
Too many blacks today refuse to recognize their bondage. Toward those who offer freedom, they react violently.
- p35
Fixating on blackness narrows horizons. It does not expand them.
Black history is American history, and any attempt to detach the two separates blacks from their country and empowers useless black “leaders.”.. These programs are more about hating white people than they are about loving black people.
- p40
The sad truth is that no people anywhere are encouraged to ignore their blessings and nurse their grudges the way black Americans are.
- p42
In Africa, in the Caribbean, in South America, even in Alabama, you see black kids with beautiful, unforced smiles. In America’s inner cities, you almost never see that. This is not a result of slavery. This is the result of a civil rights movement gone bad.
- p43
“Blues is the foundation of jazz as well as the prime source of rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and country music.”
If blues evolved from hymns, where did blacks learn the hymns? Not in Africa. They learned them in Christian churches here in America.
There were no trumpets in black Africa unless the British brought them.
Multiculturalism today means “I’m okay; you’re not.”
The message should be, “Look what we have accomplished as Americans.” That is a great unifying message, and it gives any ethnic group in America more pride of ownership in more great enterprises than would be possible anywhere else in the world. By contrast, “blackness” puts our imagination in chains and ghettoizes our dreams.
- p44
If Malcolm X had seen the light the way I had, if he had looked within and forgiven those who wronged him, he would have had a different story to tell.
- p47
Malcolm X faced dangers, but not from white people.
- p48
Instead of fretting about how imperfect their lives are, I challenge black Americans to get over their “blackness” and start building character.
Over the past 50 years, blacks have been seduced away from their character and truth.
Their “leaders” have convinced them that their struggle is a physical battle with white and that America is a racist nation.
The truth is that there is good and bad in every race, and every human being is engaged in a spiritual battle of good versus evil.
- p52
Just as today, socialist theory appealed to the sense of superiority of the highly educated.
- p53
He (WEB Du Bois) also refused to acknowledge that it was the white man who introduced America’s blacks to the greatest gift they could ever receive, the saving grace of Jesus Christ
- p54
Today, black preachers are more likely to address the sins of the white man than they are the sins of their own congregates.
- p55
Obama owed his success to the fact that he thought and talked just like a white elitist but look like a black man.
- p56
No race can prosper till it learns that there is much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must behind and not at the top.” - Booker T. Washington
- p61
As Booker T. Washington warned in his Atlanta speech, if blacks were not allowed to secure a trade and earn their self-respect, “We shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.”
- p66
To own a car (is), the first step toward a middle-class life in every city but the densest few, like New York.
- p67
Dr. Ben Carson was the first man to ever successfully separate Siamese twins joined at the brain.
- p69
The bottom line is that Obama never really learned anything, never came to grips with his own internal strife. He found no peace in Christianity because the Christianity he halfheartedly adopted had nothing to do with Christ and everything to do with Jeremiah Wright.
Obama’s real religion was socialism.
- p72
And you don’t need to be a sociologist to see that his (Richard Pryor’s) to see that his failures were not the fault of white America but of a deformed, godless family life.
- p74
Anger has a way of crippling people in ways that are rarely talked about.
- p76
Today, too many young black men, like Peace and Pryor, have turned their backs on God. Like them both, they wallow in their anger and assume the role of “nigger” as a perverse badge of honor.
There is a vicious cycle at work here. A man is attracted to a woman who has a spirit similar to his mother’s, but he leaves her upon sensing this is the same spirit he resented growing up. The father’s absence makes the mother the influential figure in the family. But her anger toward the man who left her is so great that she cannot easily be a positive influence. The black youth is victimized by his mother’s dominant hatred. With no father as a figure of guidance and respect, the child yields readily, as Pryor did, to the force of darkness.
- p77-78
It would not surprise me if God were tempted to pull the plug on our (black) people as He did in Noah’s time.
- p78
Not long after Obama’s (June 2008) speech (at Apostolic Church of God in South Side Chicago) (Jesse) Jackson’s true feelings “slipped out” on a hot mic before a TV appearances “I wanna cut his nuts out,” Jackson said to the fellow next to him. “Barack- he’s talking down to black people- telling niggers how to behave.”
- p79
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket.” - Eric Hoffer
- p81
Once I opened my heart to God’s love, He drove away all my fear.
- p84
They (homosexuals) have never been hung from trees or denied basic human rights.
No one ever told gays they could not vote or sit in the front of a bus or drink out of a particular water fountain.
- p87
The anger that children feel upon being abandoned is a universal phenomenon.
- p88
500,000 black babies are killed in the womb each year- roughly 3x the rate of white babies. This is a symptom of an ongoing war between men and women in which women lack confidence that the men will provide for these children once born, and men lack the authority to protect their children’s lives in the womb.
- p88
Today if a white man says something that race hustlers find offensive, he is expected to go kiss the ring of one or both of these hucksters. All that really accomplishes is to show the supplicant sweetness, and strengthen the hands of Jackson and Sharpton
- p99
Whites always have to watch what they say. Blacks do not. thank goodness for black comedians. If not for them, no one would be able to point out the occasional absurditiesof black culture.
-p100
If black Americans – all Americans, for that matter – are to save the nation, they have to reject the culture of blame. His culture lead to a false sense of entitlement, an unquenched fury, and an alienation from conscious and country. The blame mentality affects Americans of every race, putting us at odds with each other – black versus white, woman versus men, children, versus parents, poor versus rich– and dragging our nation to the brink.
-p103
Black on white violence is as dramatic for White as White on black violence ones for blacks in the pre-rights era. Black’s treasure their scars. Whites are not allowed to acknowledge them.
- p110
The blaming mentality could not exist in a vacuum. The fuel that gives it life is white guilt.
- p111
O.J. Simpson‘s dad was gay, abandoned him and died of AIDS. Paraphrased.
- p119
In identifying with women in their family, they (boys) lack the strength and resolution to become the men’s society needs them to be.
- p119
Like so many men deprived of fathers, he (OJ Simpson) was, in a way, always on the outside, looking in. Unable or unwilling to see himself for who he was, he could only see who he was not.
- p125
He may have quietly hated her, but he would tell the world he loved her. It is a complex, screwed up relationship, the one that affects most males abandoned by their fathers and raised by their mothers.
- p126
Black children are nearly eight times likelier than white kids to live in a home with a single mother.
Black two-parent families outearn black single-parent homes 4-1
BSFs are 5x more likely to live in poverty than B2PF
- p128
Why do progressive thought leaders scold anyone who talks about the most basic safety issue? The reason is that the nuclear family is the single greatest deterrent to socialism.
- p133
When they (the race hustlers/grievance mongers) hear a racial slur – or even something that sounds like a slur – what they really hear is the cha-ching of a cash register. The object of the game is to make white people feel guilty and control them through their guilt.
The coarsening of the language goes hand in glove with the coarsening of the culture.
Black leaders need to take some responsibility for the cultural breakdown. Too often they ignore bad behavior or even applaud it as “authentic,” but it is not even that.
- p136
Jesse Jackson fathered a child outside lf his marriage in his fifties, as an ordained minister and “moral leader” of black America.
-p151
Life is renewed through love, and real love is spiritual love, God’s love passing through us. Rappers like Eminem, white or black, are not capable of writing love songs.
In a strong, stable marriage, the children absorb the sanctified love between their mother and father and are nurtured by it.
- p155
Unable to attract males through their womanliness, they (black females) imitate them.
Due to a man’s separation from God, he lacks the strength to assume his rightful place as head of his wife, and she loses respect for his authority. For example, men have lost the authority to keep their own child, as women make the “choice” to kill their unborn children.
What men don’t understand is that it’s the spirit of their mothers they must overcome to be a man.
- p158
The problem is not local, and it is not a lack of funding. The problem is a lack of fathers and mothers passing their anger on to the children. No amount of “programming” will change that.
- p160
“The problem is babies (13-17 years of age) having babies too.”… These young women grow up angry and stressed out, and they transfer that anger to their children long before they learn how to understand it themselves, let alone cope with it.
Without fathers in the home, these young women often suffer from a spiritual breakdown. They grow up hard and cynical, and they are getting harder and more cynical by the generation. They have sex to offer but little else. Men use them but don’t want them.
If the woman is the major breadwinner in the family, the man will have a hard time establishing his sense of self-worth and independence.
- p161/162
In my experience, many well-educated black women are overly sensitive to the least slight from anyone, male or female, black or white. They have been taught from an early age that the system works against them- both for being black and for being female- and they are looking for proof that this is so.
- p162
Too many young black women today grow up like Banks, in homes where anger is the norm and trust is unheard of. Given this kind of start, they focus on superficial things, like skin color and even “furniture,” and ignore the things that matter, like forgiveness, redemption, and love. A generous, unforced smile can make anyone beautiful, but only love can produce those smiles, and only security can produce love.
- p164
Anger is not something you control. It controls you. When we let anger control our souls, we all lose.
- p167
Paternal abandonment and abuse can fill the children left behind with murderous rage.
- p169
Unwilling to face his own failures as a son, father, and man, (John Allen) Muhammad transferred his wrath toward America.
- p171
He (Omar Thornton) was not the victim of racism- institutional or otherwise. if he was the victim of anything, it was of a disordered home life and of society’s refusal to acknowledge the emotional fallout from that disorder.
The pattern stares the media in the face-angry black man displaces his anger from his parents to the white man-but the media either avert their gaze or blame the white man. It is so much easier than telling the truth.
- p174
Anger makes people irresponsible and inconsiderate. Angry people have no love and respect for themselves and or for their fellow man. They often have no functioning inner compass to override their anger.
- p177-178
There is something about approaching thirty that makes a young man reassess his life. By this time, a man should have arrived or at least be on the way to his destination. He is not a child anymore.
- p179
Racist anger, black or white, infantilizes anyone who harbors it. God changed my heart, and I was blessed to be able to let go and forgive.
- p180
The abandonment of a child by his father creates a void in that child’s life that he will almost always fill in a negative way, and you can see it in his face.
- p183
Love is simply not hating. If men love like this, their wives and children will be richly blessed.
If the child’s father does leave, she need to remind her children that the father who left the home did not leave because of them. Unfortunately, it is the rare single mother who is strong enough to share that message with her children. Too many mothers would rather hurt the “baby daddy” than help the baby.
- p184
When people see the devil inside them, they set that devil on fire. Much like JLP imagined how Judas saw himself before hanging himself (paraphrased)
We as human being will never become our best selves unless we seek God first.
You are, however, not going to find God in a building. You will find Him when you look at yourself and see the truth of what you’ve become through your anger.
This is where self-knowledge begins. If you are to overcome your image of yourself as victim, you must see yourself for who you are.
So much of what makes you feel victimized is anger. You are angry, but you don’t know what you are angry about.
… I have found, and know from experience, that one of the greatest sources of anger is the lack of a father in the home.
Those who turn away from their earthly father turn away from their spiritual Father as well. They can never learn to know and love God if their heart is filled with hate. We must all strive to forgive. It is God who allows us to forgive and reunite. What salvation is really about is a return to the Father.
- p188
Unfortunately, “victims” never accept blame, rarely forgive others, and do not grow up until they cast off the shackles of victimhood.
- p190
Son, with a marketable skill you are much better able to start thinking about a wife and children.
If you only see your kids when you feel like it, you have abandoned them.
Feminists often condemn this passage (Ephesians 5:22) for seeming backward and undemocratic, but a family is not a democracy. At its best, it is an organic unit through which order and love flow.
… In a family that lives by this creed, there is no abuse, no neglect, no intimidation, no fear. The husband grows strong. The wife blossoms. The children flourish.
- p191
Forgiveness, remember, is a spiritual gift God can give us only when we admit we are wrong.
… I am hopeful enough to think those who will free black America just might begin by reading this book. It will take some especially strong people to throw off so much entrenched evil, but if they succeed, the rewards will be astonishing.
- p193
November 21, 2016
The civil rights era ended the night of MLKing's death and the next day when Jesse Jackson displayed the bloody shirt. Since then, it turned into a shake down of white society using white guilt and black anger to extract money and power.
Jess Peterson calls these guys ( like Jackson and Sharpton - the Alchemists). Of the 600 cities that got ML King Blvds; all of them deteriorated. And from the 1st black mayor in Gary, IN the cities they were Mayors of got worse and the condition of the blacks got worse. Those who knew all this already knew the awful consequences of an Obama presidency. But you had to live in black areas and not be an ivory tower white liberal.
The real education was on the streets where you would hear all the words that the whites were accused of using against blacks.
Read the excellent book by Jesse Peterson called the The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and VictimhoodEvery American should read this book by Jesse Peterson if we want to save our country before it is too late. Jesse is honest and forthright with the kind of courage we need for these times. He addresses forthrightly the problem in the black community and he doesn't pull any punches. The problem is simple enough. Boys are growing up without fathers in a toxic world of quarreling women with passive grandmothers.
For a half century or more, black people have labored under the spell of what Jesse Lee Peterson calls the “alchemists.” These are the race hustlers, media hacks, politicians, community organizers and the like who promise to “fundamentally transform” America. The transformation they promise, however, produces only fool’s gold—unearned benefits like welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, payouts from lawsuits, and maybe one day even reparations. Worse, to secure these counterfeit goods, recipients have to sacrifice something of infinite value: the sanctity of the two-parent family. It is a devil’s bargain.
To make this experiment work, the alchemists have created an ungodly and unhealthy environment, one in which the white population is made to feel guilty and the black population made to feel angry. The pattern in this is simple: children—black or white—when deprived of fathers, grow up angry at their parents. White children displace their anger in a thousand different directions. Black children channel theirs, for the most part, in a single destructive direction—towards and against white people. The alchemists encourage them to do this, enable them, and even reward them. This anger fuels the system and pays the alchemists’ bills.
As bleak as this all sounds, an antidote exists and can best be summarized in two key concepts, forgiveness and truth. Forgiveness and truth saved Peterson’s life, that of his son, and those of countless young men who have been counseled at Peterson’s organization, BOND.
The perverse genius of liberalism has been its ability to capture black anger and project it outwards towards anyone, black or white, who resists the Democratic agenda. By encouraging a resentful dependency, liberals have instituted a new kind of slavery in the black community as emotionally shackling as the physical slavery that first brought Africans to America.
Peterson knows this story from the inside as few other people do. Born on an Alabama plantation, he was abandoned by his father before he was born. After high school, Peterson moved to Los Angeles and for the next twenty years moved purposelessly through life, channeling his internal anger outwards towards white people and America in general.
Providentially, Peterson discovered the “antidote” to that which ailed him and which still troubles black America—forgiveness. Only after he forgave his parents was he able to see the world as it really existed and discern its basic truths. In the mission he has undertaken since, and in this hopeful book, Peterson shares what he learned on his personal road to Damascus.
Jess Peterson calls these guys ( like Jackson and Sharpton - the Alchemists). Of the 600 cities that got ML King Blvds; all of them deteriorated. And from the 1st black mayor in Gary, IN the cities they were Mayors of got worse and the condition of the blacks got worse. Those who knew all this already knew the awful consequences of an Obama presidency. But you had to live in black areas and not be an ivory tower white liberal.
The real education was on the streets where you would hear all the words that the whites were accused of using against blacks.
Read the excellent book by Jesse Peterson called the The Antidote: Healing America From the Poison of Hate, Blame, and VictimhoodEvery American should read this book by Jesse Peterson if we want to save our country before it is too late. Jesse is honest and forthright with the kind of courage we need for these times. He addresses forthrightly the problem in the black community and he doesn't pull any punches. The problem is simple enough. Boys are growing up without fathers in a toxic world of quarreling women with passive grandmothers.
For a half century or more, black people have labored under the spell of what Jesse Lee Peterson calls the “alchemists.” These are the race hustlers, media hacks, politicians, community organizers and the like who promise to “fundamentally transform” America. The transformation they promise, however, produces only fool’s gold—unearned benefits like welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, payouts from lawsuits, and maybe one day even reparations. Worse, to secure these counterfeit goods, recipients have to sacrifice something of infinite value: the sanctity of the two-parent family. It is a devil’s bargain.
To make this experiment work, the alchemists have created an ungodly and unhealthy environment, one in which the white population is made to feel guilty and the black population made to feel angry. The pattern in this is simple: children—black or white—when deprived of fathers, grow up angry at their parents. White children displace their anger in a thousand different directions. Black children channel theirs, for the most part, in a single destructive direction—towards and against white people. The alchemists encourage them to do this, enable them, and even reward them. This anger fuels the system and pays the alchemists’ bills.
As bleak as this all sounds, an antidote exists and can best be summarized in two key concepts, forgiveness and truth. Forgiveness and truth saved Peterson’s life, that of his son, and those of countless young men who have been counseled at Peterson’s organization, BOND.
The perverse genius of liberalism has been its ability to capture black anger and project it outwards towards anyone, black or white, who resists the Democratic agenda. By encouraging a resentful dependency, liberals have instituted a new kind of slavery in the black community as emotionally shackling as the physical slavery that first brought Africans to America.
Peterson knows this story from the inside as few other people do. Born on an Alabama plantation, he was abandoned by his father before he was born. After high school, Peterson moved to Los Angeles and for the next twenty years moved purposelessly through life, channeling his internal anger outwards towards white people and America in general.
Providentially, Peterson discovered the “antidote” to that which ailed him and which still troubles black America—forgiveness. Only after he forgave his parents was he able to see the world as it really existed and discern its basic truths. In the mission he has undertaken since, and in this hopeful book, Peterson shares what he learned on his personal road to Damascus.
July 13, 2020
A must read .
November 13, 2020
Stumbled upon this in a neighborhood book-sharing box. The main premise is that broken families lead to angry children, and our culture encourages displacing that anger into race relations. Mostly anecdotal, overstated, and often inflammatory (reads a lot like a conservative talk show), it chronicles the backgrounds of police-involved killings, modern civil rights leaders, famous rappers, OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson, and several lesser-known mass-murderers, all told in such a way as to link abandonment by fathers into an anger that was later displaced on others). The proposed solution is mainly a rejection of societal focus in favor of individual responsibility focus.
May 20, 2025
Some good insights on the racial tensions and internal community struggles, but overall I found this book was kind of disorganized and it felt like the same point was just repeated in ever chapter. Lots of anecdotes that help demonstrate the author's main point, but they all started to feel the same after a while.
September 19, 2019
Problem solving through faith
Book talks about racial issues in America, i.e Trayvon martin, and explains how letting go of anger and blame can help further America towards a better future
Book talks about racial issues in America, i.e Trayvon martin, and explains how letting go of anger and blame can help further America towards a better future
July 26, 2020
Angry black people but no angry white peoples
This books talks about the angry of black people but it doesn’t talk about the angry of white peoples against black people. One sided book bad read
This books talks about the angry of black people but it doesn’t talk about the angry of white peoples against black people. One sided book bad read
December 19, 2022
It's basically the same thing as his daily radio show. The first book of his I read back in the 2000s Scam was really good and is his best book. I read both his first book and and his latest (2015). The latest is basically the talking points he uses in his daily radio show.
January 3, 2024
Loved the specific examples, thought it's the same rhetoric. And, I really appreciate that the evident sources of anger and hate are derived from the parents or lack thereof. The antidote for everything is forgiveness, love, and look within.
September 12, 2021
Most appreciated history of pivotal characters in history including W.E.B. DuBois.
February 26, 2017
The book covers racial politics, it's development and current state, in America from the perspective of a conservative pastor who grew up in the rural South and has lived and pastored in L.A. for an extended period. I first heard Rev. Peterson on the radio and wanted to read more of his opinion and review the points I had already heard him make. On the radio his spoken style is deliberate. I mistook his radio style and what I had seen of his interviews online as a man of strongly held convictions who plodded forward resolutely despite opposition. In this book I found the depth of his knowledge, his substantial research and documentation and his ability to thoroughly master the topic at hand. His writing style is concise but comprehensive, clear, and powerful. The topic is not my favorite but Rev. Peterson made it thrilling to learn things on the topic I haven't heard before and especially the insights, authentic experiences and emotions. I looked forward to each chapter. Rev. Peterson highlights the contrasting views of the black thinkers DuBois and Booker T. Washington. Against the high-profile black leaders of today Peterson subscribes more to the Booker T. Washington philosophy. The book profiles many public figures and examines their past and especially family upbringings to show how this influenced their lives. He covers them in a short, yet revealing way. Figures he covers: Ben Carson, former president Obama, his ties to Frank Marshall Davis and Jeremiah Wright, Malcolm X, Richard Pryor, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Tawana Brawley, Jim Jones. He summarizes explosive racial incidents: Crown Heights, Rodney King, the O. J. case, Mychal Bell, and Trayvon Martin. He deals with these racially charged issues: institutional racism, "teen crime," white guilt, family dynamics media bias and social media. He looks into black music and how drastically it has changed as evidenced by rap artists Kanye and Tupac. At the core of his evaluation of what is going wrong he places the absence of strong Christian fathers. In his view the lack of a father results in rage and blame. Peterson offers direction and responsibility as alternatives. He shows how society is affected by the choice.
April 2, 2016
The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate Blame and Victimhood by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is right-on in terms of the issue the author tackles: the disintegration of families.
Yet the Reverend's antidote is one I'm not buying: reading the Bible and attending church and not having an abortion. It's the only antidote he offers at the end of this book.
As soon as you link religion to politics I stop taking what you say seriously.
I read The Antidote in four hours in one day. The Reverend’s antidote is specific to how African American leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson promote yes hate blame and victimhood among their brothers and sisters.
How anyone is easily swayed by any demagogue is beyond me yet I’ll concede for a moment that it’s possible a whole swath of people has been led down this path of crying victimhood. Let’s for now though forget this and tackle the real issue: the hate and violence in society.
The author of the book does state that trauma effects everyone. He critically assails the media for not caring about black-on-white violence that causes trauma.
Hate is ugly. Hate corrodes everyone living in society–black and white–and it harms the hater the most. In prior incarnations of my blog I alluded to how I was the victim of a racial attack in an Eddie Bauer store when I was in graduate school. It was hurtful; it was hateful–and I hadn’t gotten over it.
In this regard I say kudos to the Reverend for talking about the hate and violence in society.
Still I don’t think every African American buys hook line and sinker what questionable leaders are selling as to how to interact with other people.
I don't like this book most of all because it trades in stereotypes like most media accounts do today. In this regard I'm tired of how the media like this book portray everyone as living up to a stereotype about how all people act. I see things from the opposite side based on my experience: interacting with beautiful people of all colors every day of my life in a library.
I'm too kind to give the Reverend's book only one or two stars and it deserves at the most two stars for devolving into a screed about how religion will save everyone from themselves. His only antidote at the end of the book is to read the bible and attend church and not get an abortion.
My biggest beef is that he doesn't offer an alternative antidote that has nothing to do with religion.
Like "breaking bread" with other people. Like getting to know other people as glorious human beings in their own right. Like stopping the real estate practice of steering that attempts to corral African Americans into only certain communities to live. (I read in a local paper that Corcoran's in Brooklyn was accused of steering.)
The Reverend may be right that it's time to stop crying victim. Yet IMHO we can't ignore the far more pressing reality that in a lot of society nobody's breaking bread with each other. A lot of people are still in a race to compete with each other to win out. And neighborhoods where people are still divided along color lines can't be ignored as part of the problem.
Anyone who has read The New York Times articles on this topic lately will see where I'm going with this. Living in poverty screws with people's heads. Gentrification forces lifelong residents out of affordable homes. Income inequality is on the rise.
Developing sane affordable housing policies would be a good step in the right direction. Having created freeways that divide people into rich and poor neighborhoods is something we can't fix because it's already happened.
Breaking bread: now that's something to think about.
IMHO Al Sharpton is the least of our worries. He's getting old. He won't be here forever.
I have every confidence that people can start to think for themselves about how to treat other people. And I'm not going to sit around judging those who won't. I refuse to judge others.
Once again I doubt Jesus can save us from ourselves.
Yet the Reverend's antidote is one I'm not buying: reading the Bible and attending church and not having an abortion. It's the only antidote he offers at the end of this book.
As soon as you link religion to politics I stop taking what you say seriously.
I read The Antidote in four hours in one day. The Reverend’s antidote is specific to how African American leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson promote yes hate blame and victimhood among their brothers and sisters.
How anyone is easily swayed by any demagogue is beyond me yet I’ll concede for a moment that it’s possible a whole swath of people has been led down this path of crying victimhood. Let’s for now though forget this and tackle the real issue: the hate and violence in society.
The author of the book does state that trauma effects everyone. He critically assails the media for not caring about black-on-white violence that causes trauma.
Hate is ugly. Hate corrodes everyone living in society–black and white–and it harms the hater the most. In prior incarnations of my blog I alluded to how I was the victim of a racial attack in an Eddie Bauer store when I was in graduate school. It was hurtful; it was hateful–and I hadn’t gotten over it.
In this regard I say kudos to the Reverend for talking about the hate and violence in society.
Still I don’t think every African American buys hook line and sinker what questionable leaders are selling as to how to interact with other people.
I don't like this book most of all because it trades in stereotypes like most media accounts do today. In this regard I'm tired of how the media like this book portray everyone as living up to a stereotype about how all people act. I see things from the opposite side based on my experience: interacting with beautiful people of all colors every day of my life in a library.
I'm too kind to give the Reverend's book only one or two stars and it deserves at the most two stars for devolving into a screed about how religion will save everyone from themselves. His only antidote at the end of the book is to read the bible and attend church and not get an abortion.
My biggest beef is that he doesn't offer an alternative antidote that has nothing to do with religion.
Like "breaking bread" with other people. Like getting to know other people as glorious human beings in their own right. Like stopping the real estate practice of steering that attempts to corral African Americans into only certain communities to live. (I read in a local paper that Corcoran's in Brooklyn was accused of steering.)
The Reverend may be right that it's time to stop crying victim. Yet IMHO we can't ignore the far more pressing reality that in a lot of society nobody's breaking bread with each other. A lot of people are still in a race to compete with each other to win out. And neighborhoods where people are still divided along color lines can't be ignored as part of the problem.
Anyone who has read The New York Times articles on this topic lately will see where I'm going with this. Living in poverty screws with people's heads. Gentrification forces lifelong residents out of affordable homes. Income inequality is on the rise.
Developing sane affordable housing policies would be a good step in the right direction. Having created freeways that divide people into rich and poor neighborhoods is something we can't fix because it's already happened.
Breaking bread: now that's something to think about.
IMHO Al Sharpton is the least of our worries. He's getting old. He won't be here forever.
I have every confidence that people can start to think for themselves about how to treat other people. And I'm not going to sit around judging those who won't. I refuse to judge others.
Once again I doubt Jesus can save us from ourselves.
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