Putting Christ Back into Christmas, Be the Or Else and the Great Emancipation Proclamation Hoax

Let’s make this official: BeanSoupTimes.com officially supports the Justice Or Else Movement’s decision to redistribute the pain by boycotting the entire holiday season.

This is a noble cause. It’s a righteous cause. Let me explain why boycotting holiday commercialization matters.

It is the first call to action from the massive gathering on 10.10.15 Justice or Else! is the nation-wide boycott of the holiday spending season—beginning with Black Friday, Nov. 27th. That gathering was keynoted by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, the national representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

A boycott is the voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social, economic or political reasons. It can also be for religious reasons.

Putting Christ Back into Christmas

So, let’s be clear. This call is about boycotting the commercialism that has become associated with the celebration of Christ. Santa Claus, Rudolph, evergreen trees, mistletoe and chestnuts roasting on an open fire have usurped Christmas, which is supposed to be a mass of people celebrating Christ. It is time to put Christ back into Christmas.

According to Bible in Jeremiah 10:3 it reads, “For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.”

“We intend to boycott Christmas but not Jesus,” Minister Farrakhan said. It’s time to honor Christ by killing Santa.

It’s time to be the Or Else

This boycott is a political and economic move that can sway the scales of justice towards balance, equity and fairness.

This Justice Or Else movement puts a spotlight on the way corporations have manipulated the public into spending money they don’t have on stuff they don’t need to impress people they don’t know. This movement urges us to be self-determined,

During his Justice or Else address, the Minister Farrakhan quoting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who said, “We have to find a way to redistribute the pain.” Dr. King lead the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) in Alabama.

He talked about going to businesses that benefited from black dollars and he said, “We have to now withdraw our economic support, so that those who give us pain can receive some pain in return.”

This is a proactive move that strikes right at the center of where race, politics and economics meet. Redistribute the pain is necessary because Blacks suffer because of injustices in America, particularly the law enforcement and vigilante killings of their men, women and children. Similar to Birth of a Nation, the media and law enforcement demonize and criminalize Black people in an attempt to justify the mistreatment and abuse and killing.

“We choose not to spend dollars on Black Friday, Black Saturday, Black Sunday, Black Monday. We are not going to spend our money for the rest of that year with those companies that we have traditionally spent our money on,” said the Minister. How is this linked to stopping the criminalization, injustice and inequality?

Emancipation Proclamation Hoax

The link between economics and slavery and injustice in America go together like Dougie Fresh and beat boxing. Centuries ago, Blacks living in Africa were kidnapped, brought to America and sold onto plantations where we were forced to work for free. Then came the great Emancipation Proclamation hoax. This document produced by Abraham Lincoln supposedly abolished slavery. That is a lie. Slavery was never abolished.

Many would argue this point, but follow me. Made part of the U.S. Constitution, the 13th amendment, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, proclaims that:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Read that again. In fact, no need. Just let me reword it, while keeping its meaning in tact. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction—except as punish for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

Now, that answers the question by rapper Ice Cube when he kicked street knowledge, “Why more niggas in the pen than in college?”

So today, the U.S. government and corporations criminalize Black and Latino youth, lock them up under the guise of the war on drugs and for them to work for major corporations for slave wages, all legal because they are being punished for a crime they have been “duly” convicted of.

According to Not One Dime, here are several corporations who benefit from prison labor:

American Airlines — Use inmates to take reservations.

Avis Car Rental — Use inmates to take reservations.

Corizon Health — Largest for-profit correctional health care company in the country.

Fidelity Investments — Funds the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

JCPenny — Sells jeans made by inmates in Tennessee prisons.

K-Mart — Sells jeans made by inmates in Tennessee prisons.

McDonalds — Uses inmates to produce frozen foods

Nike — Use of overseas child labor.

Sprint — Inmates provide telecommunication services.

Starbucks — Uses inmates to cut costs.

Verizon — Inmates provide telecommunication services.

Victoria’s Secret — Uses inmates to cut production costs.

Walmart — Uses inmates for manufacturing purposes; “anti-union apparatus and actions.”

Wells Fargo — Holds shares in GEO Group.

Wendy’s – Relied on prison labor to reduce its cost of operations.

Whole Foods – Purchases food from two private vendors that use cheap prison labor.

Message from Dr. King

So today, we boycott. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memphis, TN, April 3, 1968:

“We don’t have to argue with anybody. We don’t have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don’t need any bricks and bottles. We don’t need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, “God sent us by here, to say to you that you’re not treating his children right. And we’ve come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God’s children are concerned.

Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.”

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