Further to the foul murder committed on Black man George Floyd in America by the White American Police Officer recently, I condemn this unpardonable coldblooded murder and also such other brutalities committed by the police even below my nose. How terrible is it to notice even in this century and in this millennium the curse of Apartheid still existing in America where two of its finest Presidents were killed because of their opposition to the Apartheid. What role the Church is playing in Christian America to stop this anti-Christian and un-Christian practice there?
I still remember how civil rightist Martin Luther King used the Church platform to oppose Apartheid in USA by the racist Whites who not only opposed Martin Luther King by showering abuses on him but even stoning his house because they were found at fault with racism. Inspite of their tall claims to be the members of Cristian community that on one side they are kicking the Christ while on the other side they are like traitors embracing the Christianity which in reality should oppose the doctrine of Satanic Apartheid. What disgraceful traitors are all those Whites who practice colour bar policy!!
While on the subject of Apartheid in America, we in Goa were and still are practicing Caste System which in many respects is similar to Apartheid which has created in our Goan society solid cracks. Our Goa Society as a whole and Christian community in particular is too much divided because of the curse of Caste system. It was surprising how this Caste system has penetrated into our Christian community and in view of this when our Christianity will repel such discrimination based on one's caste that is not the NOC (Visa) for entering the Heaven? But unfortunately because of the bastardization of our system by the high caste Clergy and also due to the tremendous pressure imposed on the Church by the prominent Christians wielding lot of power not only in Goa but more than that in the Church Circle, carried the Caste discrimination even in the Church where besides other discrimination, separate Benches were allocated for the faithful on the basis of their caste. Even in the Seminary so many of our young Goan boys with the volcanic love burning in their hearts to serve God were rejected and now as a punishment to our dirty anti-Christian policy followed by our dirty Church policy in Goa, the Seminaries are become empty of Goan Seminarians and precisely because of this Ghanntti type of boys from outside are filling the places in our Seminaries.
Going one step further I would like to state here one more concrete example to prove how the most sophisticated and elite with high degree of educational background were victims of Caste system. Can anyone believe persons like Abade de Faria firmly believe in his Brahmin Caste status? Read here, The year of his death a posthumous book of his was under the title 'De la cause du sommeil lucide, ou etude de nature de l'homme by l'Abbe Faria' Brahmin, Doctor in theology, Paris, 1819, 8th ed. Faria was an slave of his Brahmin Caste for this reason he preferred even after his death to indicate his cheap preference on the word "Brahin" Caste while writing his name. I was proud of him for being my Candoicar but now I feel ashamed of him althouh I respect him for his professional work.
Coming back to Martin Luther King’s campaign on the eradication of Apartheid in the USA, one day while delivering his sermon in his home town Church at Montgomery, while telling the Whites who by virtue of being Whites, had to occupy the Benches placed at the right side in the Church while the Blacks at the left side and seeing this type of segregation in the house of God, he told the Whites, “my dear brothers and sisters, if you cannot integrate with the masses (pointing to the Blacks occupying the Benches at left side) then you will never integrate with Christ because Christ is come from the masses”. Some of the Whites attending the service volunteered to leave the church but not to integrate with the Blacks. Such was the chicanery practiced by the white Christians there with the fury of the type of COVID-19 Virus and the echo produced by this sermon reverberated all around USA and its echo even resounded all all over the World prompting the larger number not only of Americans but people of the entire World to oppose the apartheid. Seeing this Apartheid raising its ugly head, I think America now needs one more Martin Luther King to completely eradicate the Apartheid and the colour bar system. What a disgraceful American society is, they have everything they want and most advanced and most sophisticated industrial goods plus the most deadly atomic arsenal to make the entire World to come to them begging with Americans with bending knees but the basic human characteristics to live like real human beings are missing in USA. Hence, I say TO THE AMERICANS "HELL WITH ALL YOUR MATERIAL ADVANCEMENT, WHAT IS THE GREAT THING ABOUT IT WHEN YOU AMERICANS ARE NOT HAVING HUMAN QUALITIES?
Coming back to Martin Luther King’s campaign on the eradication of Apartheid in the USA, one day while delivering his sermon in his home town Church at Montgomery, while telling the Whites who by virtue of being Whites, had to occupy the Benches placed at the right side in the Church while the Blacks at the left side and seeing this type of segregation in the house of God, he told the Whites, “my dear brothers and sisters, if you cannot integrate with the masses (pointing to the Blacks occupying the Benches at left side) then you will never integrate with Christ because Christ is come from the masses”. Some of the Whites attending the service volunteered to leave the church but not to integrate with the Blacks. Such was the chicanery practiced by the white Christians there with the fury of the type of COVID-19 Virus and the echo produced by this sermon reverberated all around USA and its echo even resounded all all over the World prompting the larger number not only of Americans but people of the entire World to oppose the apartheid. Seeing this Apartheid raising its ugly head, I think America now needs one more Martin Luther King to completely eradicate the Apartheid and the colour bar system. What a disgraceful American society is, they have everything they want and most advanced and most sophisticated industrial goods plus the most deadly atomic arsenal to make the entire World to come to them begging with Americans with bending knees but the basic human characteristics to live like real human beings are missing in USA. Hence, I say TO THE AMERICANS "HELL WITH ALL YOUR MATERIAL ADVANCEMENT, WHAT IS THE GREAT THING ABOUT IT WHEN YOU AMERICANS ARE NOT HAVING HUMAN QUALITIES?
A.Veronica Fernandes.
A.Veronica Fernandes.