Black Lives Matter Is An Offshoot of ‘Occupy Wall St.’ & ‘We Are the 99%’, and I Have Proof Taken From Scripture, Spoken By Jesus Himself

What God Would Say About Inequality Compared to

Pastor Paul J Bern
8 min readJul 6, 2020

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Black Lives Matter and the ‘Occupy’, ‘We Are The 99%’,

and the Arab Spring Movements

by Minister Paul J. Bern

I have been watching the evening news on wireless TV and on the Internet from the alternative media (I don’t waste my time or money with cable TV) with much admiration lately as the political turmoil unfolds in street demonstrations all over the US over the deaths of unarmed Black men and teenagers. At worst, they had committed misdemeanor offenses, but many of them have been hapless but innocent victims of law enforcement. Just like the Arab Spring in 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, with a civil war still winding down in Syria while more threatens to break out in Iraq, all the people are taking to the streets for justice, and for their inalienable human rights and freedoms. It stirs my heart without end to see all those throngs of people united in one purpose, coming up against an overwhelming established authority, and all without any weapons.

It also bears a strong resemblance to Black Lives Matter, “Occupy Wall St.”, and “We Are the 99%” movements here in America and abroad, of which I have personally been a part. I have personally self-published two books about these movements, “The Middle and Working Class Manifesto (4th edition)”, and “Occupying America: We Shall Overcome”, which you can buy at a huge discount from my website listed in the link above (or, just click here). All of these ongoing revolutions were accomplished without any more than minimal bloodshed (excluding Syria and Gaza), and were at least partly peaceful. Of course, this is excluding all the looters and vandals elsewhere, as well as those who start fires, whose activities I will never endorse. It is nonetheless very good that so many people were set free by rising up against established abusive authoritarians and taking charge of our own destinies. This is how real change is brought about and this is how (mostly) peaceful revolution is brought forth by those…

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Pastor Paul J Bern

Rev. Paul J. Bern is a Web pastor and blogger on The Social Gospel Blog on Medium, Wordpress and others. Longtime Atlanta Ga. resident; stroke survivor, coach