Black Lives Matter-Louisville leader gets death threats after piece addressing white people
God creates Wars, Riots, and Tumult as a punishment and wrath to wicked people on the street and wickedness in high places.
Hosea 10
When I please, I will punish them;
nations will be gathered against them
to put them in bonds for their double sin.
11 Ephraim is a trained heifer
that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke
on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
Judah must plow,
and Jacob must break up the ground.
12 Sow righteousness for yourselves,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes
and showers his righteousness on you.
13 But you have planted wickedness,
you have reaped evil,
you have eaten the fruit of deception.
Because you have depended on your own strength
and on your many warriors,
14 the roar of battle will rise against your people,
so that all your fortresses will be devastated—
as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle,
when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
15 So will it happen to you, Bethel,
because your wickedness is great.
When that day dawns,
the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
The Lord can also quiet and call Satan to bring a Tumult
Paul and Seneca 12
ALL happiness to you, my dearest Paul. Do you not suppose I am extremely concerned and grieved that your innocence should bring you into sufferings?
2 And that all the people should suppose you (Christians) so criminal, and imagine all the misfortunes that happen to the city, to be caused by you?
3 But let us bear the charge with a patient temper, appealing (for our innocence) to the court (above), which is the only one our hard fortune will allow us to address to, till at length our misfortunes shall end in unalterable happiness.
4 Former ages have produced (tyrants) Alexander the son of Philip, and Dionysius; ours also has produced Caius Cæsar; whose inclinations were their only laws.
5 As to the frequent burnings of the city of Rome, the cause is manifest; and if a person in my mean circumstances might be allowed to speak, and one might declare these dark things without danger, every one should see the whole of the matter.
6 The Christians and Jews are indeed commonly punished for the crime of burning the city; but that impious miscreant, who delights in murders and butcheries, and disguises his villanies with lies, is appointed to, or reserved till, his proper time.
7 And as the life of every excellent person is now sacrificed instead of that one person (who is the author of the mischief), so this one shall be sacrificed for many, and he shall be devoted to be burnt with fire instead of all.
8 One hundred and thirty-two houses, and four whole squares (or islands) were burnt down in six days: the seventh put an end to the burning. I wish you all happiness.
9 Dated the fifth of the calends of April, in the consulship of Frigius and Bassus.
God is not the author of Confusion
1 Corinthians 14:21-33
21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints
Strongs G182= Instability that is disorder/ commotion. Confusion= unnatural (mainly sexual practices), to make ashamed (shameful face)/reproachable/demoralized
Therefore, what we consider as Riots and Protesting is not confusion.
EVEN THE RICH AMONG US ARE STILL SLAVES. OPRAH IS STILL A SLAVE, THE NFL PLAYERS ARE STILL SLAVES, ETC.. THAT ALSO GOES FOR THE OTHER TRIBES AND THE THE SO CALLED GENTILE ISRAELITES.
Testament of Judah 4:6-7
5 For the angel of the Lord said unto me: The Lord chose him rather than thee, to draw near to Him, and to eat of His table and to offer Him the first-fruits of the choice things of the sons of Israel; but thou shalt be king of Jacob. 6 And thou shalt be amongst them as the sea. For as, on the sea, just and unjust are tossed about, some taken into captivity while some are enriched, so also shall every race of men be in thee: some shall be im- poverished, being taken captive, and others grow rich by plundering the possessions of others.
Come out with Great Substance.
Genesis 15:13-14
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
When Chanelle Helm took to Facebook following this month's violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, she wasn't expecting a fierce backlash from national conservative media outlets and a bottomless pit of internet trolls.
But her words, which went viral after they were also published by Louisville's alternative LEO Weekly, have been quoted and shared by right-wing outlets including Breitbart, The Blaze and The Daily Wire.
Now, Helm is getting death threats.
"I didn't think that right-wing nut jobs would take it and twist and turn my words into whatever they wanted to turn them into," Helm said.
Her piece, "White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader," begins with an introduction from Helm: "Some things I'm thinking about that should change."
Helm, a co-founder and core organizer of Black Lives Matter-Louisville, goes on to make suggestions about restorative justice and reparations: White people without descendants should will their property to a black or brown family; give inherited property they intend to sell to a black or brown family; or if they're downsizing and can afford it, give the old property to a black or brown family.
She said those acts of restorative justice in the form of reparations to people of color who have been criminally oppressed by white society should ideally be focused on families burdened by generational poverty.
Helm also tells white people that if any of the people in their will are "racist a**holes," change the will to give your estate to a black or brown family. While you're at it, re-budget to find money to donate to funds organized to purchase land for people of color.
"Commit to two things: Fighting white supremacy where and how you can (this doesn't mean taking up knitting, unless you're making scarves for black and brown kids in need), and funding black and brown people and their work," wrote Helm, who also was a key organizer in last week's largely peaceful Boston march against white supremacists and white nationalists.
The message of the list, she says, was for "white allies and accomplices" who wonder what more they can do. The list continues with suggestions that white people work to get racists fired, call the police on racists, confront racists and "if you need to, you got hands: use them."
"It's time for you to do something," she told the Courier-Journal on Thursday, describing the message. "It's time for you to stop reading, it's time for you to stop going to panels, it's time for you to stop sitting in your corner of the world and not doing anything."
Helm's comments became a lightning rod for criticism from the white right.
"Black Lives Matter Activist Unveils List of Demands To White People: 'Give Up the Home You Own,' " the headline on Breitbart's coverage of Helm's list says.
"Her demands would push more people apart and further racism, thus elongating the tenure of racism everywhere," a story on Trending Views reads.
And that coverage, in turn, led to vitriolic comments and social media threats.
Comments like "All she is going to get is a bullet" and "blacks are full of sh-t" and "You can have my bullets ... I have one for each of you ... trust me, I do" appeared on dozens of YouTube and Facebook accounts addressing Helm's piece.
Helm says she's taking them seriously and has had discussions with her lawyer as well as a team of people following the response.
"This entire climate is really built off this presidential administration, with Trump having those rallies and inciting those things," Helm said. "If anything says anything about a divide, he's the one opening this divide."
Aaron Yarmuth, LEO Weekly's executive editor, said editors felt a "responsibility" to reach out to Black Lives Matter-Louisville in the wake of the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, given the organization's local and national influence.
Editors expected a big reaction to the piece, but were not anticipating "fringe websites to repackage her words as clickbait or propaganda," he added.
"There certainly are a lot of conversations being had on the merits of her message, but it has gotten largely drowned out and warped by people who didn't understand it, who took it either personally or as something else," Yarmuth said, adding that the piece seems to have brought out the "worst underbelly of the Internet."
LEO Weekly received some backlash on social media and through email for publishing the piece, but has received nothing of a violent or pointedly racist nature, Yarmuth said.
To Helm, calling her post racist, as some outlets did, is an "erasure" of what racism is, Helm added.
"Racism is something that only white people can obtain because white people built it," she said. "They built it so that they can maintain power."
As for her original post: "When it gets twisted, the message gets lost," she said. But, in some spaces, despite the backlash, there are larger discussions taking place about generational poverty, economic inequality, and other issues, she said, that sparked her piece.
In Louisville, Helm sees whole sections of the city being ignored, citing the lack of accessible jobs for people of color to support themselves or their families, and the closures of four grocery stores that leave residents of color without easy access to reasonably priced and healthful food.
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"We've got the mayor deeming it a compassionate city — there's nothing compassionate nowhere in this damn city," she said.
Helm concluded her piece with links to contribute money to her personal accounts, Black Lives Matter-Louisville and a host of other groups or causes that "are doing work" on the ground and creating spaces for black people.
"Trust in us in what we say and what we do," Helm said.
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