This is my second time around with today’s song because a lot has changed since the first time I posted this song. Still the same theme but different results. I believe this song expresses the finest example of racial hatred and it’s effects on society. Today’s song describes the hatred of what we now call Native American’s but why would there a division between Americans? Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence said All men are created equal but somehow the black slaves and Indians were not equal. I guess what Jefferson meant to say was All white men are created equal! Although the Indians have been in the United States for thousands of years they were not considered to be citizens until 1866 where the reconstruction laws made anyone born in the United States, including slaves and Indians automatic citizens. Before reconstruction Indians were considered “illegals” that’s why The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was deemed “legal”, where the U.S. Army marched thousands of American Indians out of the Southeast part of the United States out of what was in the 1830s, removing the “illegals” out of the United States which would come to be known as the Trail of Tears. I live in Fort Smith Arkansas, which I have said before, Fort Smith is not on the Trail of Tears, it’s the end of The Trail of Tears, because just across the river is Oklahoma. It’s called The Trail of Tears because many died between 2,000 or it may have been up to 10,ooo Indians died on the march, we really don’t know how many Indians died because in the 1830s Indians life’s didn’t matter! This didn’t go unnoticed by Hitler who 100 years later would say The Nazi’s were doing nothing different than Andrew Jackson did, removing “illegals” from their country. Now a portrait of Andrew Jackson hangs in the Oval Office by a president who believes he ‘s just like his hero, the same hero of Hitler, he is going to remove “illegals” from the United States.
Why do people hate other people? I given this a lot of thought and I believe it’s not the people that’s the object of the hatred it’s the people doing the hating. In the case of the American Indians 50% white and 50% Indians equals 100% Indian! It’s not just about the hatred of Indians from white people for thousands of years different groups of people have extreme hatred for other groups. The best example of hatred between two groups of people is the parable of the Good Samaritan. News reports almost always seem to say if someone comes to another person’s aid the news reporter says ” A couple of Good Samaritans came to help”. Today a Good Smartian is just a description and most people haven’t really hear the story of the Good Smartian or what it really means. First you have to know who the Samaritans were. The Samaritans were Jews who intermarried with Gentiles that made them “half-breeds”, they were not true Jews. Just like the song 50-50 equals 100% Gentile. The Jews considered the Samaritans “illegals” because they were not legitimate Jews. To totally understand the story of Good Samaritan, the reason why Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan is almost as important as the story itself. —Luke 10:
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
The first time I did this song and the story of the Good Samaritan with it I compared it to Obamacare and how Jesus commands Christians to take care of others, even as the story of the Good Samaritan explains we are to take care of people we consider not to be our equals. That’s why Jesus used a Samaritan, a group of people that the Jews hated. How much did the Jews hate the half breed, not legal Jews, the Samaritans? The Jews in the time of Jesus hate could be described as a hatred as great as well as great as the good church people Trump base have for what they love to call the “illegals”. I call these people who have the extreme arrogance to call anyone “illegals” I call them the “Righteous” I believe that fits them. You noticed how I referred to them as church people not Christians? According to Mike Huckabee they are “The people of Faith”. I think that might be a “God thing” because in order to be called “Christian” people have to be able to see Christ in you and I can’t see any part of Christ in the righteous. In fact from what I have witnessed in their Face Book posts, when Christ said, Go and do thou likewise the Righteous shout out to the world No we will not go and do likewise! These Face Book posts, and there are many of them, are shameful but the Righteous post them with pride suggesting others share their posts. The posts all have a couple of things in common there’s a picture of for instance homeless people and the caption will say something like: Democrats care more for ILLEGALS than our own homeless. I’m sure all the homeless in America are jumping up and down with joy to find out that the church going Republicans now express their love for the homeless of America. But there’s a problem with their love for the homeless, the poor, the American Vets their “love” is the same kind of love that is described of Judas in John 12 3-6
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
These posts doesn’t show real love for the poor or vets they just like Judas Iscariot care nothing for the poor their pouring out their hate for illegals, as the Righteous love to call them, by using the poor as an excuse.
I have seen posts with this same theme from people who attend my church every Sunday morning. There have been two children of preachers and a former Sunday teacher of mine. I can’t explain their actions or what they believe their doing by expressing hatred for all the world to see. I can tell you one thing for sure their actions, and posting on Face Book is an action, does NOT line up with the Bible! You would think they would know the meaning of the Good Samaritan but from their posts it’s clear they don’t.
To understand the meaning of the Good Samaritan you first of to know where the story took place. Jesus was teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem. When the Temple was built back in the Old Testament The Samaritans wanted to help build the Temple but the Jews would not let them help because the Jews considered the Samaritans unclean, illegals, trespassers, any other bad name you can think of the Jews called the Samaritans that. Another example of the hate is described in the fourth chapter of John:
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
After the Samaritan woman told Jesus he shouldn’t be talking to a Samaritan she says:
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
After the Jews built the Temple the Samaritans built a small version of the Temple on the mountain she’s referring to here. If a Samaritan went to the Temple in Jerusalem they could only go to what is called the Outer Court where Gentiles could go and stand outside. Jesus was on the inside of the Temple where only Jews were permitted to go when he tells the story of the Good Samaritan.
This all starts in verse 25 when a Jewish lawyer stands up and asks Jesus a question. That’s not to hard to believe– a Jewish Lawyer! But notice Jesus asks a question right back, he asks the lawyer What does the law say? I could ask the Righteous that same question What does the law say? Because from their Face Book posts they must think the U.S. immigration law is quite simple; Whites Only!
How did the Jewish lawyer come up with answer he gave Jesus? It’s in the Old Testament but not from one scripture. The first part is from Deuteronomy 6 4-6
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
And the second part is from Leviticus 19:
The Jews combined these two passages together and would recite it as part of their Shema, or creed, at the Synagogue during worship. By the way I looked that up in a book not the internet!
The Jewish lawyer asks Jesus Who is my neighbor trying to trip Jesus up. But Jesus outsmarts him by turning the question back to him personally. The story of the Good Samaritan is not a do-gooder story as most people may think, rather it’s a story about prejudice. Why did the Priest just pass the man needing help on the other side of the road. I have read some commentaries where the writer claims that both the Priest and the Levite (church leader) thought the man was dead and since he was already dead touching him would make the Priest and Levite “unclean” so they passed him on by. It’s sad to say but a lot of preachers today would say this too. Why would Trump supporters preachers make a ridiculous claim like that? Because the real reason why the Priest and Levite passed by on the other side road leaving this man to die on the side of the road is because the injured man wasn’t a Jew! How do we know that? Jesus says the man was stripped of his raiment so he was naked (Fruit of the Loom wasn’t in business yet) not getting into much detail but in Jesus time there was a way just by looking to tell a naked Jewish man from a naked Gentile man. When the Priest and Levite looked at the man they may had both said very impressive, but a Gentile! If the beaten man had been a Jew The Priest would had helped the man, in fact when the Priest looked up and saw the Levite approaching he would had called out for help and the Levite would had come running to help. If Jesus told the story like that, then the Jewish lawyer would had been very pleased that, of coarse, Jews were the hero’s of the story. But I just like I said before the story of the Good Samaritan is not a do-gooder story, it’s a story displaying how God truly made All Man Equal. That’s the same problem that the Jewish lawyer and today’s “righteous” have their love is limited only to people that look like they do, talk like they do, believe like they do, vote like they do. The Face Book posts like my former Sunday School teacher posts tell the whole world that they refuse to be like the Good Samaritan, that they would be just like the Priest and pass on the other side. Their telling the world they flatly refuse to follow Jesus commandment: Go and do thou likewise. Just one more verse to think about. Matthew 25: 40
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”