There’s one major elephant in the room which is never discussed, which is the root cause of the perpetual poor, the lack of an ability for income mobility, the entrapment of the American people into a soft slavery where the poorest of the population, and yes to you social justice lunatics, your beloved African-Americans whose lives matter more to you than your own especially, but the media intentionally pushes us away from discussing this because they are FUNDED by the very power the proprietors of this issue exerts on the population.
The systemic issue which is holding your people of color and everyone else back — is usury.
Our entire system is based on debt, which has been accumulating on the personal level at historic highs. The average American is $90,000 in debt, while they only make $61,000 per year. They’re unable to get out of it, caught to where they are enslaved to corporations from the moment they get out of the corporate college system — in which they’re required to pay exorbitant amounts of money to get a paper credential to even be allowed the potential to be enslaved my said corporation.
It’s no wonder 62% of people with a college education are listed as having overwhelming debt.
But this all stems from a system of lending which was set up with interest, one which is dictated at the highest levels by the federal reserve, and is 100% something which oppresses the poor, keeps people down, and is a real systemic evil which the powerful and the elites won’t be putting colored boxes on instagram to fake the masses into thinking they’re doing something by their virtue signaling.
The Bible is very clear about how destructive this is going back to Exodus 22:25: “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.”
There’s a reason for this, and because it’s oppressive to the person who has to repay this interest. They are stuck in an enslavement system which they have no way to get out.
The whole major point of the Lord’s prayer is about debt forgiveness– “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” because it is such an inherent problem and one that trickles into and permeates through every culture.
There is nothing more destructive in our culture today, nothing which is a greater problem which affects more people, and it is a place where the people are powerless to do anything about it. There won’t be a cause around it, no riots, no fun hashtags to show your friends and corporation how cool you are. Very few places other than this blog will discuss it.
It’s because of a simple prospect of Matthew 6:24: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Our system serves money, with the money lenders at the top who are behind the curtain and profiting on your gains and your losses on both ends.
We can pretend the world needs to be turned upside down because some black criminal tried to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit bill, took a lethal amount of drugs, and then resisted arrest and had a heart attack, or we can address real problems.
The media and the corporations don’t want you addressing real problems.
Other than the student debt part, usury isn’t something I’ve seen mentioned as an underlying cause for systemic problems, so I found this interesting. I’d be curious to see what the solution would look like – if it is simply to remove interest, does the concept of lending money go away entirely? Does interest instead get capped at a certain level? How does this affect thing we traditionally need loans for, such as buying a house?
Great questions. Not sure exactly what the full solutions would look like.