‘Anger’ holding back black community

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Talk radio host Larry Elder was visiting Jesse Lee Peterson’s house when he saw a poorly dressed man lying on a couch. In another room, he saw a different man lying on a bed.

“Jesse, who are these people?” Elder asked.

Peterson, a WND columnist and author of “The Antidote,” replied they were homeless people he had taken in off the street to try and turn their lives around.

“I mean, who does that?” Elder asked recently on his eponymous radio show as he recounted the story. “I mean, we all contribute money – at least most of us do – to the homeless, but who actually invites people who are homeless into their home to try and counsel them spiritually and turn them around, except for people like Jesse Lee Peterson?”

Peterson, who is also a talk radio host, founded the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) 26 years ago as a way to help countless black men turn their lives around. His own life experiences have given him insights about what is really hurting the black community.

“Black Americans are not suffering due to racism at all; it’s the destruction of the family and turning away from God,” Peterson said during an appearance on Elder’s radio show.

Peterson did not grow up in a traditional nuclear family. His father impregnated his mother at a young age and refused to marry her. His mother, fearing the shame of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, married another man just before Jesse was born.

As a boy, Jesse yearned for his real father. He asked his mother about him, but the mother only had negative things to say about the father. So Jesse became angry at his mother for keeping him away from his father, and his father for not being present in his life.

This anger consumed Peterson well into his young adulthood, until he finally realized anger was holding him back in life. He went to each of his parents and forgave them for what they had done to him in childhood. As soon as he forgave them, he believes God forgave him for his sins and filled his heart with peace. He no longer felt angry.

However, Peterson knows many American blacks are still consumed by anger. Two prominent examples are Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, two young black men who grew up in broken families and took out their anger on authority figures before they died. But Peterson laments that the most visible “civil rights leaders” only stoke black anger further by blaming racism for the problems of the black community.

“Instead of the race hustlers looking at their home life to see where that anger started in order to teach these young people they need to forgive so the cycle will stop, they say that it’s the white man, that it’s racism,” Peterson said. “And they’ve said that for so long now that most blacks are not looking at the home life. They’re not forgiving their parents so God can forgive them and they can have peace and move on in life.”

Peterson calls such black leaders the “alchemists” – they pretend they want to help black America, but they are actually just using the anger of ordinary blacks to gain power and wealth for themselves. And in order for the “alchemists” to maintain control over the black community, they must make sure blacks don’t build their character.

“When a person is free, when they are a man or woman of character, you can’t control them,” Peterson explained. “You can only control an immoral person and you can’t control a moral person.”

Elder, a WND columnist and author of “Dear Father, Dear Son,” noted Democratic leaders today tag Republicans with terms like “Jim Crow” and “Bull Connor” to try and capture the black vote. Peterson contends terms like those are buzzwords meant to whip up black anger.

“When angry black people hear those words, they automatically go into a hypnotic trance and they overreact and they follow these people wherever they want them to go,” Peterson said.

However, Peterson wishes more blacks would do as the “race hustlers” do, not as they say. For example, Peterson pointed out President Obama is married and is raising his daughters in a stable household where they are getting a good education. Jesse Jackson also is married and raised his children to be smart, productive citizens.

“They know the remedy, but they’re not offering what they have to the rest of the folks, and the folks are so angry that they can’t see what’s really going on,” Peterson explained. “When you’re angry, it’s hard to believe the truth. It’s easier to believe a lie when you’re angry. That’s why you have to turn away from anger, so you can see the truth.”

Peterson wants all blacks to see the truth he discovered years ago: if you hold onto your anger and blame others for your problems, your life will never get better. Once Peterson forgave his father, he began spending much more time with the old man and finally knew what it felt like to feel a father’s love.

“There is no relationship like a father and son relationship, and this is for boys and girls. It completes you; it makes you whole. It’s like the thing that was missing has been replaced, and then you can move on in life.”

Peterson told Elder he feels no anger toward anyone now. He doesn’t take it personally when detractors call him an Uncle Tom or worse. He claimed not a day goes by when he doesn’t receive a threat, but he recognizes all of those critics are consumed by anger just like he once was.

“I now realize that those people are angry and they have not had good parents to guide them, and they’re taking their anger out on me, and it’s not personal,” Peterson affirmed. “They literally can’t see what they’re doing.”

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