We cannot forget the perpetrator who caused this misery for us,” referring to white Americans.
Forget NO, FORGIVE YES. This is the problem. If you do not forgive you are in jail with the one's that offended you. When you hold a grudge/ offense against someone you are holding them in your jail ( of your mind ). You got them in prison and refuse to let them go for they offended you. What you don't realize is that you are the prison guard / warden having to stay in the prison to make sure that the offenders don't get out and get what's coming to them. By not forgiving you are held captive in the same prison house you put your offenders. YOU CAN NEVER BE FREE THIS WAY. But if you CHOSE to forgive you don't need to be the warden anymore and you are free to move on with your life. The mindset of white perpetrator, black victim keeps you in perpetual, never ending slavery.
Matthew 6.11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Ephesians 4. If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. His servant, Peter
