Black Family Pledge

The 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 cannot pray.

Because the old walls of ancestors
have faded beyond our hearing
our children cannot hear us crying.

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 us up to 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 lonliest,
To educate our illiterate,
To feed our starving,
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 desolaton.

We make this pledge.

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