Black Family Pledge
Because we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us
honor.
Because we have lost the path our ancestors cleared, kneeling in perilous
undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.
Because we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children do not pray.
Because we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering, our
befuddled children give birth to children they neither want nor understand.
Because we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our gates, and
holds up the mirror of the world shouting, "Regard the loveless."
Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves again to one another,
To embrace our lowliest,
To keep company with our loneliest,
To educate our illiterate,
To feed our staving,
To clothe our ragged,
To do all good things,
knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters, we are our
brothers and sisters.
In honor of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues, and in
gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation.
WE MAKE THIS PLEDGE.
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