Chains That Still Clink

A Facebook Post That Speaks More Than It Knows

This morning I was scrolling through Facebook and a post stopped me cold: a haunting photo of a black slave, tangled in netting, with the caption:

“No other race is told to forget their history!”

But posts like this don’t just recall history — they recycle pain to divide. They whisper resentment into the black community, foster hatred toward white people, and fuel an outrage-industry that profits from perpetual grievance. It isn’t patriotism, and it isn’t about honoring ancestors. It is propaganda, dressed up as pride.

The people who once owned slaves are long gone. Yet some still drag chains from the past, shaking them for sympathy as if ancestral pain can be cashed like a perpetual check. Meanwhile, the real slave markets of this generation thrive in plain sight.

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.” — Proverbs 31:8

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The Silent Slavery of Domestic Work

6.6 million. That’s how many domestic workers labor in the Arab States today. Women from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Ethiopia. They cross oceans for work, only to find their passports seized, wages withheld, and lives locked inside stranger’s homes. Many endure 18-hour shifts, no rest days, debt bondage to recruiters, and abuse that ranges from verbal degradation to sexual assault.

Reforms may exist on paper. In practice, the kafala system ties their legal status to their employer. Run away, and you risk deportation. Stay, and you endure bondage without bars.

“Woe to him who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages.” — Jeremiah 22:13

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Sex Trafficking: Flesh for Sale

Women and girls are the majority of those trafficked worldwide for sex. Millions are forced into brothels, strip clubs, pornography, or online exploitation. Traffickers recruit with false job offers, romance schemes, or outright abduction. Once inside the system, the abuse is relentless: repeated rape, beatings, forced abortions, untreated disease, starvation, and the erasure of personhood.

The world shrugs and calls it “the sex trade.” God calls it evil.

“Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” — Psalm 82:4

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Child Trafficking: Innocence on the Auction Block

Children make up 38% of detected trafficking victims. Many are recruited not by strangers, but by family or friends. And more than half are trafficked within their own countries.

Their exploitation takes many forms: rape disguised as “child marriage,” forced street begging, coerced theft, “online scam farms” run by crime syndicates. Some are beaten into silence, others starved into compliance. They disappear not only from childhood, but from the possibility of a future.

“Whoever causes one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck.” — Luke 17:2

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Forced Begging on Our Own Streets

I do not have to cross oceans to see this horror. I have seen it on American soil. Women and children—often looking Middle Eastern—dropped off from a van at busy intersections. A baby in their arms, limp and “asleep” for hours, while the mother holds a cardboard sign. Little children weaving between cars with sad eyes and outstretched hands. Then, at day’s end, the same man returns to collect them and the money.

This is not homelessness. It is organized exploitation. Reports confirm that in some cases, the babies are drugged to keep them silent. The women and children are forced to beg and hand over the cash. They are trafficked in plain daylight, and most people drive past without knowing what they are seeing.

The U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report classifies forced begging as trafficking — yet many law enforcement agencies dismiss it as “panhandling.” Victims, often migrants, fear speaking up because of threats or lack of legal status. And so the scam continues, not only enriching the handler but crushing the dignity of the most vulnerable.

“They sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals.” — Amos 2:6

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Organ Harvesting: The Body Market

Then there is the trade few want to face: trafficking for organ removal. Victims are tricked with job offers or abducted outright. Their kidneys, livers, and corneas are stolen in back-alley clinics. They wake up missing pieces of themselves, or never wake at all.

Estimates suggest ~12,000 illegal organ transplants occur each year, generating nearly $1 billion annually for traffickers. Victims, meanwhile, suffer infection, hemorrhage, chronic illness — or death from the very surgery that robbed them.

“You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor oppress your neighbor.” — Leviticus 19:11,13

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Why I Refuse to Play the History Game

When I see propaganda posts milking slavery’s past, I know the real agenda: division, hatred, profit. It cripples black communities instead of healing them. It poisons minds against neighbors instead of teaching truth. And while eyes are turned backward, the true captives of today are ignored.

Slavery did not end. It shifted. It changed its costume. It now wears the mask of housework in Riyadh, a nightclub in Bangkok, a back-alley clinic in Cairo, and yes—even a begging corner in Orlando or Los Angeles.

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness… and let the oppressed go free?” — Isaiah 58:6

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My Call

I will not be silent. I will not be guilt-whipped into submission by a past I did not live. My eyes are fixed on the chains that still clink today: the women without passports, the children without voices, the poor without organs, the mothers and babies forced onto American streets.

And my charge is clear: speak, expose, defend, and rescue — until the world sees that slavery is not history. It is now.

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Who to Support & What We Can Do

It’s not enough to be outraged. The Bible never called me to hand-wring in the pews. It calls me to act. So here is where I point, not to hype or celebrity, but to ministries with Christian roots and financial transparency:

• Tim Tebow Foundation — survivor care through Her Song, safe houses, long-term restoration. Transparent and Christ-centered.
• International Justice Mission (IJM) — pursuing traffickers through courts, freeing captives, strengthening justice systems worldwide. Founded on biblical conviction.
• Samaritan’s Purse — known for crisis relief in Jesus’ name, but also confronting trafficking in war zones and refugee camps where it thrives.
• Samaritan Village (Orlando, FL) — a local, grassroots safe house for women survivors. Quiet, faithful, focused on healing with dignity.

And for the rest of us:

• Expose what is hidden: do not look away when you see forced begging or exploitation.
• Defend the weak: report what you see; support survivors.
• Provide for those in need: shelter, food, counseling, dignity.
• Pray with names and categories — for the women without passports, the children without voices, the poor without organs.

Because slavery has not ended. But neither has my calling.