Talk:Amos 'n' Andy
My brothers and sisters! My brothers and sisters! Some of you may be laughing at this mockery of the black man and his dreams. Some of you may be laughing at this distortion of the Black man's quest for social and financial freedom. Some of you may be laughing at "Amos and Andy," as two thousand years of the black man's struggle are turned into a joke.
Some of you may be laughing, my brothers and sisters, but let me say only this - we will see who is laughing at the judgement seat. We will see who is laughing when we come face to face with the black man Jesus. We will see who is laughing when the cheap brown makeup comes off of these blackface radio commentators and we see them for the devils they are. We will see who is laughing when the Black man inherits the Earth. We will see who is laughing when the rivers of milk and honey are flowing in the Black man's land.
Yes, my brothers and sisters, you may think "Amos and Andy" is an adequate representation of the life of two blackmen and their friend "Kingfish." Let me remind you that they called the prophet Isaiah "Kingfish," too. All the white men in their palaces in Babylon laughed at Isaiah the "Kingfish" and said: "let him alone; its just another get rich quick scheme. The kind of scheme black men are always plotting - or ain't you never seen 'Amos and Andy.'" Well, God showed us all that he means business - big, million dollar business the sort that would have every "Kingfish" in the land rolling. God was serious as a heart attack when it came to his black prophet Isaiah, and he's gonna let no one go and use the word "Kingfish" to describe his chosen black people today, either. You see, folks, there is only one King Fish in this pond we call Earth. That King Fish is the black man God.
So before you go and yuk it up over the stereotypes the white man has put in this "Amos and Andy" blasphemy, I think you had better think - don't go blaspheming now, don't go blaspheming now! For how you treat the Black man is how you treat the King Fish himself. And the King Fish - I mean the real King Fish, not the perverse mockery in this show - the real King Fish says live in harmony with your black brothers and sisters. Thank you.
= The Rev. Jefferson Jackson
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