FRIGHT-----FIGHT------FLIGHT?

This world has always been a dangerous place.  Think about it.  The history in the Old Testament is full of battles, hand to hand, thousands killed in a single day, one at a time, spear and sword.  Rome conquered the known world with an 18 inch sword.  God the creator made us a world that was perfect and man screwed it up.  So now what?
When trouble comes to our neighborhood we fight it.  If we don't we loose the neighborhood.  Churches preach "love one another", and we try to do that.  But, push comes to shove, preachers go to the fight.
March 17 is celebrated in Boston as :"Evacuation Day", marking the day the British were forced from the city after eleven months of occupation which started April 19, 1775 and lasted until March 17, 1776.
If we taught our children History today as it was taught in my day they would learn about the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill and the formation of the American Army by George Washington.  They would learn that riders like Paul Revere road the countryside to warn of the British army coming to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.  They would learn that they were staying with Pastor Jonas Clark, who with 77 militia met the British on the Green.  They would also learn that when the British moved on to Concord they were met by 400 militia led by Rev. William Emerson.  As the British retreated to Boston  our kids would how they were punished by patriots who fired on them all along the way.  Those patriots included many pastors from the surrounding countryside, such as Philps Payson and Benjamin Blach.  They did not cower behind the pulpit.
Our children should be taught this and much more.  They should know that the Blacks, free and slave stood shoulder to shoulder with their white brothers and fired that musket, and died as Americans.
The black community has much more to be proud of than to be complaining about, and we should teach it........Medicineman!