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Black, Brown, “Coloured”, how do we refer to our skin tone?

September 2, 2025 by Anthony Ewers

So, are we really “black”? Even the darkest of us are not “black” according to it’s strictest definition. I once heard someone adamantly claim they were “Carbon” in colour. Conversely, are “white” people really “white”? Surely we recognise the terms black and white to refer to a relative symbolism and approximation of our skin colour. This colour symbolism is a learned code which more prominently in the past, but still today is used to determine status in society, and there are all kinds of associations and assumptions attached to colour as part of various social codes embedded in cultures across the world.

What does the term “coloured” mean? Surely everyone has a colour, or they would be transparent? It seems this term was used in the Apartheid era in South Africa particularly, to describe a mix of people who were neither “black” or “white”. “Coloured” people were not as low in status as “black” people. The difficulty we have now is that people appear to be clinging to the use of these terms. Should we not be rethinking all of this? Why should we continue to use terms which were invented by brutal regimes to describe people so that those brutal people could make everyone think they were superior to anyone else?

I definitely think we should re-think the terms we use now, to shape the future we want. I don’t believe we can continue in the paths laid down for us by the brutal and expect our future to be shaped positively when using tho

Is “Money” the god of this age?

July 12, 2025 by Anthony Ewers

Blog, Culture, Economics, Video

https://youtu.be/rgPcPT5foF0?si=a-WA0bLw55r6oncU

Professor Jiang has some very challenging views on how money, individualism and in my view misunderstanding have merged together to forge a misplaced notion of faith which is ruinous to mankind.

While I can’t agree with everything Prof. Jiang has proposed, he does raise some thought provoking ideas. Let’s face it, we do have to think about why “Christianity” today is so focused on money. Why megachurches effectively sell “blessings”. “Peter” and “John” said “silver and gold I have none” and they performed miracles. Messiah called Peter to catch a fish, which miraculously had a coin in it, which they used to pay the temple tax. Paul wrote of being “poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything”. Yet there is today a breed of pastor that has the best cars, private jets, mansions and TV shows and followers are attracted to them in large numbers. There is a clear difference, so why does it exi

Europe and Africa: A clash of culture and ideology

I’ve had it on my mind and prayed about this subject so much. It seems to me that African’s today are in a state of being torn between the ideals of western progress and African traditions, between a move to ward the unnatural and lawless versus nature, harmony and uprightness.

Much of what is causing problems on the continent is a direct result of European interventions in African law. For example, the borders that European nations imposed on African countries at the Berlin Conference in 1884/5, divided territories traditionally occupied by one tribe, creating rifts and fractures in the demographic make up of the entire continent. The European colonial strategy has been one of divide and conquer. This gentleman describes the conflict between European and African cultures really well:

Think on this scripture:

12) A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13) who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
14) who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
15)Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.

16)There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
17) haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18) a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19) a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Proverbs 6:12–19

Remember that it is Europeans who have historically got a track record of dividing lands and putting one tribe against another, often playing two sides to see which benefits then best, and we see it even today with their constant wars. The scripture above speaks of one man, and in just the same way that believers are said to be all members of one body with one spirit in us, so too are the non-believers, those who worship Satan by their life choices; and their spirit is the spirit of division, lacking empathy, justice and an appreciation of what The Most High has created. We have to identify the people who work by this spirit and drive them out, physically, mentally, spiritually, economically and culturally.

Mediums and witchcraft in the music industry exposed

June 15, 2025 by Anthony Ewers

Article, Blog, Culture, Instructional, Music, Video

The music industry is a stronghold in Satan’s kingdom. There are many popular artists influenced by demonic spirits, some dabble in drugs to enter that consciousness in which they find their creative fire. Behind the scenes malevolent characters lurk with evil intentions, desiring to peddle their wanton visions on the innocent, and so many are swept away in the tide of filth they create.

I’ve taken a glimpse into the music industry myself, and I didn’t like what I saw. This is why I am a self published artist and I stay away from the influences of the mainstream music industry.

This gentleman’s articles are spoken from a Christian perspective, I’m not a Christian (the term is not one that the early believers chose but one put on them), still he has knowledge enough to understand that behind some music there is witchcraft. I’ve included part 2, as it is the most insightful.

Is the West African Language “Ewe” Related to Paleo-Hebrew

June 9, 2025 by Anthony Ewers

Africa, Black Awareness, Blog, Culture, Educational, Faith, History, Video

Is it possible that we have it all wrong, Hebrew stems from African languages rather than African languages being derivatives of Hebrew?