The Verses of Curses (Part One)

Have you ever wondered about the condition of the Negroes? Let’s look at history, right? Why did other ethnic groups come to the Americas, the Occident, via their own volition, whilst Negroes arrived in the intestines of slave ships? Why did Colored people get afflicted with 400 years of American slavery? Why did Coloreds have to march and protest for civil rights? All the while getting bit by German shepherds, water-hosed, and having dehumanizing epithets hurled in our direction? Why are Negroes always the targets of racial discrimination, oppression, and marginalization? If you’ve pondered these inquiries too, I’m delighted to say that The Hebrew Bible provides the satisfactory answers! Let’s dive into Deuteronomy 28:15.

“But if you refuse to pay attention to what Yahweh your God says, and do not observe and obey all His commandments and regulations which I am giving you today, then all the following curses will be yours in abundance.” Deuteronomy 28:15. This verse makes it lucid that if Yahweh’s chosen people, the Israelites, dishonor the Covenant, by breaking His commandments and regulations, then all the following curses would overtake them. Let’s look at the curses.

“A curse on you in city, and a curse on you in the countryside.”

Deuteronomy 28:16

Which municipalities are the most impoverished, replete with blight? Which neighborhoods are laden with drug trafficking, crime, gang activity? In the countryside/rural areas in the South, weren’t Coloreds relegated to slave work?