A White Guy with Blue Eyes and Long Brown Hair

An amazing mural painted on the front of a camel colored building with soft stucco exterior. The warm blue sky, the gentle desert sand of the earth, animals peacefully grazing and roaming and then there ion the middle of downtown Cheonan is a white guy with blue eyes and long brown hair holding a staff. On top of the building in central Korea is a pointed structure also of camel color stucco where sits a large neon red Cross on top for all to see. What is this white guy with blue eyes and long brown hair doing next to the small take-out with white noodle soups of tomato, garlic and fresh seafood across from the restaurant where customers take off their shoes upon entering and sitting on the floor in slippers with their legs crossed while dining?

How did he get white here in the land of yellow and light brown? How did a man for the Middle East acquire pale skin and blue eyes to begin with? I am not a historian but were white people with blue eyes in existence yet?

Hearing the unmistakable flat, monotoned hymns in any language could only be that composed by white Protestant here in a city of almost a half million with probably les than fifty non-Asians while in meditation this morning made my heart sink. The ache if oppression and imperialism pierced through y veins and poisoned my blood.

Just like the day when I realized WHY Black Americans are so attached to Christianity and the Church. And why so many Muslim Americans have to take low-skill, low-income jobs that allow them the opportunity to honor their spiritual commitment of regular Prayer throughout the day. As the Jews that had to close their family business when malls and shopping centers made Saturday, the Seventh Day, a shopping day and they had to decide between God of the Bible that says, “You will keep the Seventh day Holy” or go out of business. Finally, the irony of Catholic missionaries brainwashing Africans into believing their idols of Crosses, Jesus and Mary would “save” them and the idols they worshipped happily and peacefully for thousands of years would send them to hell. This ache I know well, I fell it in my belly and I cringe.

I wonder how many people have taken the time to learn any of the languages of the Bible in Hebrew or any Aramaic language to receive the Teachings before white Kings, Queens, Czars and Emperors reframed them to meet their personal needs for power and domination? I wonder if the white guy with blue eyes and long brown hair laughs or cries when He hears us “quote the Gospel” according to King James and NIV? My money is on tears and many of them but possibly laughter while witnessing us use His Love, Healing and Teachings for everything that is not Love, Healing and Teaching amusing Himself “Funny white people, they just don’t get it.” He may question Himself, “Don’t they know back then the language didn’t have vowels in writing till modern day and that was to keep the Teachings fresh and not allow them stagnation.”

And in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth”, could have been written as follows, “In the beginning, and God is creating Heaven and Earth?’ just as easily. Why do they keep quoting only one possibility?” “If they are going to quote me all the time, you would think it would be important enough for them to learn my language to make sure they are actually quoting me!” This puts a whole new spin on the whole Seven Days, especially since Christians celebrate the Sabbath on the first day, not the seventh day, like the Bible says.

Which commandment in the Bible directs us to rape, pillage, loot, oppress, brainwash, own and take over people as a “mission”?

Oh my dear Friend, The White Guy with Blue Eyes and Long Brown Hair, what have we done to You?
Your Love and Your Teachings?
How did we move from, “the Meek shall inherit the Earth” to the arrogant shall rule it?

What have we done to You my Friend, what have we done?

July 20, 2008- Cheonan, Choongchung-namdo, South Korea