Satan, 'Lucifer de Heretic', stalking testaments

 

Job 1:6-12
New International Version

6 One day the angels[a] came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[b] also came with them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. 10 “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

12 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
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As Satan, 'Lucifer de Heretic', I give this epistle to You, dear Br'er, de facto Sheikh of '212'

      Niggas, aka Black folk, aka Negroes and other cultural euphemisms front in their own version of gravitas of status
       White people and their complex of fixation on having a  culturally leveraged superior privileged a priori status.

Both groups act in a posturing-facade of their idiosyncratic "gravitas" of social choreography within their groups and to those outside their group.
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I went to an appointment at the base hospital for a nutrition class. First thing that struck me was NOT that the main instructor and his first assistant were BLACK, but it was that ALL the attendees were black (for obvious genetic and cultural reasons of eating-weight-nutrition). Why not more white people, who I'd observed on my way to the class in all forms of morbid morphologies? (Interesting)

THEN the point of this epistle on 'GRAVITAS' made its appearance. From the main instructor to we attendees, one could perceive the underlying effort to have, at first, a sober decorum on the subject matter of what we can and should eat. As we delved into the minutiae of our individual preferences, predispositions, and idiosyncrasies; the individual and unique foibles of the humanity of our tastes came out. By the time we got around to grits, salt, wine, and pastries the foibles of our humanity for the taboo-side of our pleasures had undermined any pretensions of keeping a serious appearance about our individual personalities.

At that point I, 'Satan-Lucifer', saw the common vanity of Black-Negro-Niggas and then out in the hallway the reaction of an incidental group of a mixed rank white airmen/women who happened to be outside the room as we 'blacks' on the inside were departing the class.

WE on the inside realized to the chagrin of some of us, that the breakdown of serious profiling to the informality of 'Niggahs-as-casual 'Jobs' of our common humanity' undermined how our roles outside the room obliged us to put on that posture and fronting face of seriousness. That posturing has its different 'black versions' in different social settings and environments.

The incidental look on the 'white crowd' in the hallway outside the de facto classroom  was 'Why are all these black people in this otherwise 'authorized persons only area?'. Until they realized it was a nutrition class we 'blacks' had been attending, it showed their expectational sense of an exclusive privilege to that space.

Between the fronting that deteriorated inside the 'classroom' and the on-going cultural fronting that exists "outside" the classroom, I came in retrospect to see how and why the social discontinuities do exist between the people of this nation-and probably in the general world between ethnic groups, nationalities, and nations.

Satan-Lucifer, de Heretic
8/18/2021