Repentance

Repentance I was talking a few hours ago to a person whose ancestor was on the very first ship into our –‘home’ pioneering community and whose ancestor had been involved in the traumatic event where new settlers and local natives had fought together creating the racial and historic tensions which I knew growing up between the two races/ ethnic ideologies. And my informant told me that the natives had saved this man’s life when others taken captive were scalped-ISI style; And given the job the person had been doing with his interaction with those natives prior to actual conflict we can deduce that he did not support the way the conflict developed and the ignorant racist attitudes of others involved. Certainly as my informant shared with me- his family had from the start repented of what we called as a child ‘The Wairau Massacre’. So there will most certainly be those within IBM maybe even involved with the Holocaust whose ancestors repented of what they were doing or repented once they became aware of what had gone on. While there will be those like a aforementioned ‘Elephant in the room’ Like Henry Cabot Lodge who saw the appalling behavior of Puritans in New England eliminating and entire Indian tribe as being a Wonderful demonstration of the superior qualities of Ayran/Anglo Saxon Germanic ‘good stock’ and superior breeding of all the human races…. Or just being White Racist better than ‘inferior’ peoples…. So what can, if we have in reading this blog become aware of ‘Issues’ in the past and even current attitudes… Well I grew up as you know from my testimony raised by my grandfather sharing his confident White Racist view of things. But then in my teenage years a Native Prophet walked into our teenage lives. The revivalist ‘Solomon Islands Revival’ Muri Thompson who had likewise walked into the suburban family life of the Hillsborough Baptist –Dawson family remaking how John Dawson would see the world- In the same way Muri became my native elder and father …. And in terms of the problem which my community had going back to ‘The Wairau Incident’ of 1843- Well 130 years after Te Rauparaha-The Ka Mate Chief had come up the main street of a brand new Nelson New Zealand- Muri led a march where we were Singing for our King; Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel- As a Treaty native chief sorted that night the problem between the two different races/ethnic traditions. Made Peace for the Prince of Peace for the city of Nelson New Zealand. That night we marched for a Jewish King and as King of Kings he sorted out our local historical problem. So what exactly am I saying here? Well as you have been reading these blogs you maybe have become aware that in your family line there is something which needs to be repented of. And if you are on speaking terms with the Jewish King then you maybe could or Already Have spoken to him. And while he Has; Is; and Will sort that problem there lies ahead some more steps. At some time the circumstances will become apparent where you can and Must step forward and do something publicly. When this Holocaust situation was brought to the awareness of IBM management they stepped up just as young Watson had done when he was caught out doing bad deals before he joined IBM and made a donation to those suffering injury. Yes maybe a token gesture and IBM needs some time to go the next step and formally ask Jews/Israel onto the board of the company with a decent shareholding so that in truth IBM can say ‘Never Again we have repented of that…’ But Always Repentance will result in some Action. Works of Repentance. IBM THINK!