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August 3, 2008 at 3:19 pm · Filed under ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS DONE TWO CENTURIES AGO...WHY D, Activities for Teens, AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY AND REPARATIONS, All Race Families, AND TAP, BARAK OBAMA AND REPARATIONS DEBATE, BARAK OBAMA CITIZEN OF THE WORLD, Barak Obama for President, BEOG PELL GRANTS, Black Children, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, BLACK HISTORY WOMENS HEALTH, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, Black Women Journalists, Blacks in Politics, Blacks in Sports, blogs about politics, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, BUILDING THE UNITED STATES WORK FORCE THROUGH EDUCATION, Business and Human Rights Ethics, CAN I GO HOME TO MOTHER AFRCIA?, children and mothers's in slavery, children with seizure/epilepsy, CLINTON ON JOBS, COLLEGE TUTION, Compassion for the Needy, Coping with Seizure, Crime, Culture lost and regained through slavery, DEATH AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING MIDDLE PASSAGE, DESPARITY OF GROSS INCOME TO NET INCOME AND LACK OF ASS, Development of SouthEast Queens, DO BLACKS NEED REPARATIONS?, drugs in the black community, Elder Care and ElderCare Givers, family grief and skizophrenia, Family in Crisis, GLOBAL ECONOMY, Health, HEAP HELP GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, HOME ECONOMICS, INVEST IN AMERICA'S FUTURE...APPROVE ACADEMIC REPARATIO, IS REPARATIONS FOR BLACKS REVERSE DISCRIMINATION???, Selfesteem, single parenting, Uncategorized, WHY DO BLACKS DESERVE REPARATIONS and tagged: AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY AND REPARATIONS, AND TAP, APOLOGY FOR SLAVERY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, BARAK OBAMA AND REPARATIONS DEBATE, BEOG PELL GRANTS, BUILDING UNITED STATES WORK FORCE THROUGH EDUCATION AND, COLLEGE TUITION, GLOBAL ECONOMY, HEAP HELP GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, INVEST IN AMERICA'S FUTURE...APPROVE ACADEMIC REPARATIO, REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
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I am a child of slaves. I am a child of first generation black Americans to have their own New York City Home. I am a child of a African American family to be the first to go to college. I am a mother of a black child who is first generation to play tennis as his major sport of skill.
I am African American wife of a skizophrenic, (who has been missing for ten years). I am an African American wife of a African American male skizphonprenic- who has not provided child support for ten years due to his missing status and the RULES that govern the Social Security Administration.
I am an African American who can not get HEAP HELP (GOVERNMENTAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR UTILITY BILLS i.e. Gas and Electric) because the government states that SINGLE PARENT STATUS…EARNING $43,000.00 PER YEAR, PAYING $1600.00 for 3 bedroom apartment in New York City, paying full utilties of building, $158.00 per month car insurance, extremely high milk, juice, fruit, meat, vegetables, personal care products, clothing, medical needs insurances, life insurances on my self valued at over $100,00.00 disability insurances on myself (especially since my missing sick husband left me responsible for my child), catastrophic disease insurances on my self.
Having detailed my financial condition as a 48 yearold African American Daughter of slave ancestors….It would appear that I have the same if not similar problems as my white counter part Americans in some cases.
However, what makes me believe that I do deserve a form if not actual SLAVE REPARATION–is that I would have completed COLLEGE many years ago—if it had not been for BEOG/ PELL AND TAP GRANTS BEING DENIED!
Those grants were denied me when I was 21 years old! I had just been accepted into CBS Television Internship Program through Queens College in the Journalism department. I was registering for my course that was applied to the internship and was told by the college that PELL GRANTS, BEOG AND TAP Aide had been denied to me because I had used up all of my POINTS!
I did not financial aide available!!! I had ignorantly retaken courses that I had failed and then passed. However, my re-registering for those courses had caused me to use up my points.
My Academic Counselor named Barbara Blank did not guide me properly, —I am truly not clear on how this terrible mistake occured.
Whatever caused this terrible error…caused me to have to leave college after I had already completed 61 credits!!!!
The financial aide counselor had discussed the problem with my mother….my African American mother….another daughter of ancestral slaves….My mother whose parents had not been educated higher than elementary school in Virgina (Drakes Branch, and Farmville Virgina to be exact).
My mother had an option explained to her by the financial aide counselor….”Refinance your house so that your daughter could finish college.”
My mother, descendant of slaves flatly stated,” NO! I am not wasting my mortgage on that!”
My sister, who did not complete college and who was 6 years older than me– had been whispering into my mother’s ears heavily.
She did not want me to complete college…because she was jealous and she told my mother that I becoming a CAREER COLLEGE STUDENT….LEARNING BUT NEVER GRADUATING.
I was only 21 years old at that time. Also CBS television internship supervisor in charge of my internship had promised me a great future! I had to compete against other people—HUNDREDS! .. inorder to get accepted into that internship!
I had made an impression on the CBS Internship program…but now! My financial aide points had run out from Pell Grant, BEOG, and TAP were no longer funding my education.
I could not work to make enough money to pay for those classes,–tuition was a mere $900.00 back then….but it was still to high for a full time college student.
The final outcome is this….I left college, unable to pay for it.
My mother, daughter of Slave ancestry could not see the benefit of helping me to complete my education because her thinking back then was limited and poisoned by my sister’s jealousy.
Thus I left college, severly let down….my mother, daughter of slaves told me to just get a job….My mother could not understand the circumstances that would notw shape my life and her’s forever!
I went to a business school, I went to Taylor Business Institute! I learned secretarial skills. ((question–why was I able to get a loan for a trade school and not a college???))
I was hired by a temp agency and began the long road back to college. I began paying for my classes one at a time….I was eventually hired full time by J. Michael Bloom Talent Agency.
My big mistake was that I got married. The marriage did not prevent me from being educated…but I began to rearrange my goals around the marriage. My husband and I did accomplish some goals like buying a house, and having a child.
My African American husband wanted me to complete college…but coming full circle my husband suffered catastrophic severe skizphrenia and left me with bankruptcy,loss of a home to foreclosure, and a child to raise.
I am currently working on a job for the past 19 years that has abosultely NOTHING to do with my original college related goals. The job helps pay for food, and rent–barely–.
I struggle due to the previous explained debts that I worry about daily.
HIND sight is not twenty-twenty for me.
I knew that my level of success would not be fulfilled if I could not complete that INTERNSHIP AT CBS AND REGISTER FOR MY CLASSES WHEN I WAS 21 YEARS OLD.
However, not having an educated family, that would understand the value of an education, and the financial scarifices required to accomplish that goal…thus here I sit today….BLOGGING…out my frustration.
My actual, blogging is healthy for me…but it cannot replace the years of economic success I have not ever experienced, education, and opportunities that I have missed out on.
Blogging cannot give me financial power to help cover the debts that HEAP will not help me to pay …because I am just $50 or more dollars over their limit of assistance for a single parent with only 1 (one) child.
I have been told that I have to have more children to be eligible to receive government assistance.
The goal in this article is to explain why SLAVE REPARATIONS would have helped a person like myself.
I have been working ever since I had to leave college.
Understand that I only left college because I had no money to pay for tuition. They would not allow me to take a loan….my mother would not refinance her home (which she actually did refinance some years later…so she could make a basment apartment for rental purposes)—I have always pushed to further my education, I recently partly completed a program NYACK Adult Continuing education–called ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGMENT…I have to pay off about $600.00 and complete three essays to receive my Bachaelor of Science in Organizational Managament.
I should have done this two years ago. So what is the hold up you ask? I have my child who has been suffering with seizure disorder increasingly over the past two years, and I also am caring for my mother who has become an invalid and stroke victim over the past 4 years.
So here I sit. I am gearing up to complete my 3 essays in the next few weeks and receive my full credit and I can graduate in November of this year.
I have traveled a long road. I know there are many others who have traveled a long road as well.
Do I believe that educational reparations would have helped me….OF COURSE IT WOULD HAVE HELPED ME!
My educational goals would not have been tied to my mother’s personal finances..and I would have been able to complete the internship at CBS in Journalism.
What type of EDUCATIONAL REPARATIONS would I have used you might ask? Here is my concept of the best form of education reparations for children of ancestral African American Slaves:
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE AND RECEIVE GED/HIGHSCHOOL DIPLOMA
- MAINTAIN PASSING GRADES IN COLLEGE
- TAKE REMEDIAL COURSES TO IMPROVE ACADEMICS AND SUCCESSFULLY PASS ALL REMEDIAL COURSES
- NO—-TERM LIMITS ON EDUCATION
- STUDENTS MUST ENROLL IN COLLEGE CONSEQUTIVELY—UNLESS EMERGENCY IN FAMILY, MEDICAL PROBLEMS, FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES TO BE EVALUATED BY REPARATIONS COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC REPARATIONS
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE BACHELOR OF any ACCREDITED COLLEGE, IVY LEAGUE, CITY, STATE COLLEGE PROGRAM
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE ANY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE ANY TRADE PROGRAM: ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, TRUCKING, NURSING, CAR REPAIR AND DESIGN, ETC.,
- SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE PROGRAMS AND HAVE ACADEMIC GOALS, AND JOB BOOKLET ON PERSONAL/INDIVIDUAL ASSESEMENT, and RESUME– COMPLETED AT THE END OF EACH SEMESTER.
- MAINTAIN ATLEAST A — C– AVERAGE…WITH EXPLANATION OF GRADES AND RESTRAINTS AND DETAILING PROBLEMS RELATED TO COMPLETION OF ACADEMIC GOALS TO BE EVALUATED DIRECTLY BY ACADEMIC REPARATIONS COMMITTEE.
- FULL TUITION PAYMENT FOR ALL AFRCIAN AMERICAN SLAVE DECENDANTS
- FULL TUTITION FOR BACHELOR, MASTERS PROGRAMS.
- FULL TUTITION PAID FOR DOCTORATE AFTER PROVIDING 4OOO HOURS OF MENTORING, PROJECT GIVE BACK, AND EACH ONE TEACH ONE PROGRAMS FOR SUMMER YOUTH AND YOUNG MOTHER PROGRAMS.
- FULL TUTITION PAYMENTS FOR 2ND BACHELOR DEGREE FOR 7000 HOURS OF MENTORING, PROJECT GIVE BACK, AND EACH ONE TEACH ONE PROGRAMS TO BE DEVELOPED BY THE AFRICAN AMERICAN REPARATIONS PROGRAM.
- ALL CANDIDATES MUST SUBMITT DOCUMENTED PROOF OF 3000 HOUR AND 7000 HOUR GIVE BACK AND MENTORING PROGRAMS INORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR DOCTORATE PROGRAMS AND 2ND DEGREE PROGRAMS.
- ALL GRADUATES ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE 100 HOURS YEARLY TO TALKS AT ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, JUNIOR HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATION, HIGHSCHOOL EDUCATION, AND COLLEGE PROGRAMS FOR MENTORING AND PASSING ON THE LEGACY OF THE BENEFITS OF EDCUATION AND TAKING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REPARATIONS AND BECOMING SUCCESSFUL IN ATTAINING ACADEMIC GOALS THAT ARE A STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE IN THE AFRiCAN AMERICAN SLAVE DESCENDANTS.
This is my concept of proper reparations. I would abide by these rules so that I could have the opportunities to pass on the goals and future that keep America growing and great.
We as a American Citizens do not need a hand out! We need a hand UP! Help me to educate myself so that I can help continue the legacy of Pride in the United States as a Super Power in the World. Help me to educate myself so that I can give back to the generations to come.
As it stands right now…I can only give this blogg!!!!
I could do so much more if my education was free…but with RESPONSIBILTY AND DEFINITELY STRINGS ATTACHED. The type of strings attached will cause success in the future decendants of slaves…but those decendants would eventually be called desendants of SUCCESSFULL AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO HAVE MENTORED, AND GAVE BACK, THEREBY ASSISTING THE UNITED STATES TO MAINTAIN ITS ECONOMIC STRENGTH, EDUCATIONAL POWER, LITERACY, AND GROWTH IN THE WORLD.
WITH EDUCATION….COMES AN EMPOWERED WORKFORCE THAT CAN STRENGTHEN THE ECONOMY…..CRIME BASED ON ECNOMICS WILL GO DOWN IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES, BLACK MALES WILL BE INSPIRED TO GATHER RESOURCES AND BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL AND STRONG. YOUNG WOMEN WILL GATHER RESOURCES AND BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL AND STRONG.
The program of reparations needs to be looked at.
It may take many years for it to come about.
MOst likely not in my life time, or even my child’s life time.
But the concept does need to be addressed.
Maybe my concepts are not all acceptable… there may be better methods of ACADEMIC REPARATIONS.
IN CONCLUSION:
DO NOT GIVE ME THE FORTY ACRES AND AN MULE….
I WANT A FREE….RESPONSIBILITY ACADEMIC BASED REPARATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF AFRICAN SLAVES.
(((JOBS WILL COME WITH AN EDUCATED WORK FORCE!!!)))
NOTE…MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES MAKE EDCUATION FREE FOR ALL!!!!
REPARATIONS ON AN ACADEMIC LEVEL WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ECONOMIC STANDING OF THE UNITED STATES AS A SUPER POWER AND ALSOIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AS WELL.
“`RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY
May 25, 2008 at 1:50 pm · Filed under ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS DONE TWO CENTURIES AGO...WHY D, Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, and The Politics of Economics, Barak Obama for President, Black Children, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, Blacks in Politics, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, CHARLES DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ENDANGERED P, Children, children and mothers's in slavery, CLINTON ON JOBS, Compassion for the Needy, Coping with Death, Coping with Emotional Pain of Tradegy, Coping with Loss, Culture lost and regained through slavery, DEATH AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING MIDDLE PASSAGE, Decline of African/Black American marriages, drugs in the black community, Faith, Family in Crisis, fear of being alone, fear of death and dying, Fear of the unknown, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY, FREE WRITE, Health, How to Respond to another's troubles, Human Rights Issues, Obama and his personal struggle, PAT BUCHANAN RACIST REMARKS ON SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND I, PAT BUCHANNON AND HIS VIEWS THAT BLACKS SHOULD BE THANK, plantations and broken black families, POLITICIANS IN 2008 PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND THOUGHTS ON R, POWER OF LOVE AND MEMORY, Racism, Religion and our Faith, Selfesteem, slavery and broken black men, slavery and destroyed families, slavery and separated families, SLAVERY AND THE BLACK AMERICAN MARRIAGE IN TODAY'S SOCI, SLAVERY AND THE WEST INDIES AND ABROAD, The Black Christian Church, THE KENNEDY FAMILY BACKS OBAMA, THE VOYAGE FROM MOTHERLAND AFRICA TO THE NEW LAND AMER, Views from Within and tagged: AMERICA TODAY MORE THAN 200YEARS SINCE SLAVERY WAS ENDE, BLACK MALE CHILDREN AND SLAVERY, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, DEATH AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING MIDDLE PASSAGE, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY BY RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY, PAT BUCHANNON RACIST REMARKS REGARDING SLAVERY, SELF ESTEEM AND SLAVERY, THE VOYAGE FROM MOTHERLAND AFRICA TO THE NEW LAND AMER, THE WEST INDIES AND ABROAD
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This picture was taken from archives on slavery. It was placed in this fiction story written by me….I thought a real picture would help the reader to understand the harsh treatment of slaves. It was a course that I took that enlightened me to the terrible experience of the MIDDLE PASSAGE and what it did to the many tribes that had been taken hostage by the SLAVE TRADERS.
That is why I had written an earlier post regarding PAT BUCHANNON’S shallow view on the slavery of African Americans and how he, (((PAT BUCHANNON))) thought that black people should be thanking “God” for slavery.
I will be writing short stories based loosely on the readings and course work I took for my education. I am not an expert….but being African American and having lived in circumstances as an Afrcian American for 48 years may give me a little insight to attempt to “channel” some of my ancestors and their struggles through fictional dipictions of slave experiences.
I hope I do them justice.
At the bottom of this you will find a discussion I raised and copied regarding the emancipation of the slaves due to Lincoln.
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******************** Middle Passage and the Loss of my Village and Family—-Slave Memories…#2
OUR VILLAGE WAS CLOSE BY THE SEA. MY MOTHER HAD A GARDEN AND MY FATHER HUNTED FOR OUR FOOD WITH THE OTHER MEN FROM THE TRIBE. There was a rival tribe that had stolen some of my mothers, and other women’s vegetables from their gardens.
Everyone was angry and running around. I was 8 years old. My brothers were 12 years old, and 15 years old and a 7months old. My parents talked and then my father and my older brothers ran with their spears to meet the other tribes men. They had put on body paint, and war feathers.
The tribesmen gather in the center of the village and began to chant and sing and jump up and down until the air was filled with their voices and the dust rose up making swirling clouds around our heads.
My father and the tribesmen ran from the village in anger and excitement chanting with raised spears. My mother took me back to our hut and began to prepare the midday meal. The war was on! I did not know if my father would be back.
My mother cooked yam and potatoe and meat. She seasoned it and then we ate. Suddenly there was a noise at the far end of the village. Women were screaming and running in our direction. My mother dropped her bowl and looked to the center of the village.
She screamed and then grabbed me and my baby brother. She pushed us into the jungle and ran, and pushed me and ran some more. When we came to the beach we saw big things on the water floating.
I had never seen anything like that before. It was brown on the bottom, and had cloth on the top floating in the wind. Suddenly my mother screamed and I looked up as saw my mother being dragged away from me with my baby brother in her arms. She looked back at me and screamed again and I was picked up and carried away too.
I began to scream and cry for my mother, and my father. I remember being in a small boat that carried us to the big brown boat with the floating clothes. My mother was forced to climb the boat, and I was forced too. When we got on the boat we were chained together and then put down in a black place that smelled so strong that I gagged and threw up.
I was hit from behind and forced to lay down next to my mother and baby brother. My baby brother had not stopped crying since this all began. My mother held my hand and I was sobbing.
I heard a language I did not understand. I could only see legs, and arms of people I had never seen before. They looked angry and they shouted at us. There were many people from our village, some old men, and some sickly men who had not gone to war with our rival tribe.
Young boys, girls, and women from our village were on this big boat too. Everyone was throwing up from the smell. Everyone was crying and scared of this new tribe that was attacking us in our tribesmen absence.
What would happen to us? Where were we being taken? Why did these tribesmen look so different from us? Why did they seem so angry at us? What law of their tribe had we broken?
Some of my tribesmen and women I heard talking amongst themselves thought that these were evil spirits from our rival tribe that had been sent by their witch doctor to destroy us!
What a powerful witch doctor they had…some of the people said. What will my father think when he comes back from war? Our tribe was the stronger of the two….we had more people, and our tribe was tall and the rival tribe were not so tall.
So our wars with them were usually quick. Our men would fight and battle for several hours, and injure some of their tribe and then fall back to our village until the next conflict…showing our dominence over them. But now, who would cook for my father and brothers?
Who would cook for all of the tribesmen. How could they fight this new foe who had taken the whole village captive? I began to feel sick, and I had to relieve myself. I was laying down on my back and my legs were aching. My baby brother was wimpering now.
My mother was chanting and squeezing my hand. The angry strange looking tribesman started pulling some of the villagers out of the areas that we were chained to.
My mother and baby brother were taken away from me and all I remember was my mother wailing and screaming my name, my baby brother’s name and then her voice cut short and then other villages started to wail and scream to our ancestors.
Their was alot of noise coming from above my head in the blackness. I could see specks of light….something dripped on my head and it smell bad. I threw up again, and then I passed out.
I woke up again seeing that my mother was gone and so was my baby brother I began to cry. One of my captors hit the bottoms of my feet with something very hard. I cried more and then they left me alone. I had relieved myself on myself. I smelled it and I threw up again.
Next to me was an old man from the village. He had been quiet for a long time. I called out to him but he did not answer. He never answered me. I knew he was dead. I screamed for the ancestors to take me away from this black hole and torment.
I prayed as my mother had taught me to. I asked forgiveness of my ancestors for any thing I might have done. I felt a tug and a yank on my feet and I felt myself pulled to my feet. The old man came out dead on the floor next to me.
My captors separated the chains and then reconnected them to a living villager man. They took the old man away and moved me down to the next villager. They took us out into the open air.
Something stuck into my foot as I walked. I stumbled and one of my captors hit me in the back again. I began to wimper. I know what wailing would cause to happen so I wimpered to myself and prayed to my ancestors again.
The sky was clear, blue and few clouds were around. The big boat rocked from side to side. I began to feel sick again. They thrust a liquid in my mouth. I began to throw up again. I was hit again from behind and they yelled something at me. I heard screaming and I saw a woman from the village being chased.
She ran around the boat while the captors chased her. They were laughing this time. She finally was caught and they did something in a crowd and encircled around her while she screamed out the name of her husband and ancestors.
I saw blood come crawling from beneath the crowd of captors and the woman stoped yelling.
There was silence again. Suddenly one of the captors tossed her dead body over the side of the boat. Many of us who saw that gasped, and moaned and sung the song of sorrow for the dead. We called as one voice for the ancestors to come to carry her away to our ancestral home.
We were taken back down to the hole and left until the captors took us out again. Some men and women and children were beat, until they bled. Some men were beat until you could see pieces of meat from their backs fly off in different directions. Then we were taken back into the black hole.
Day turned into night and night into day. One day the big boat stopped and we who had survived were taken from the boat and washed brutally, and greased.
New chains were placed on our hands and feet and we were taken into what appeared to be a village with more of the tribes people who looked and dressed differently then us.
They looked angry and laughed at the same time. I passed out. I awoke on a wood floor. There was a large animal that looked like something I had never seen before.
One of the captors had been sitting and looking away from me. I looked around and saw some of the villager men who had survived the trip. I sat up and then I saw a big white hut. There were other tribes in this new land. I did not recognize any of them.
When the big animal stopped we were all yanked off the wood floor and put on the ground. I was very weak, and sick. I began to throw up again. I was hit again.
I was yanked to follow my fellow villagers to a small white hut. When we arrived more of the strange looking tribesman and some tribes men from my mother land were there. We were handed bowls of food and we ate.
This was strange food but it tasted better than the food on the large boat. I began to feel better. I looked around and saw animals I had never seen before. Some were funny….a white bird with a red wobbly skin on its head and neck. It made funny noises.
I began to miss my mother and I cried again. I was hit again. I began to wimper to myself and pray to my ancestors. I wondered what ever happened to my father and the other tribesman and if they knew what had happened to us.
I was given a hut to share with other tribesman, and clothes. I was given work to do in a very, very large garden. I never forgot my mother, baby brother, and my father and kinsman.
I worked until I died from a severe beating.
~~~~~riveroflifelisajoy
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This is a document regarding the emancipation of the slaves……
COPYWRITE 2003-2008 SON OF THE SOUTH
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Abraham Lincoln and
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Abraham Lincoln and Emancipated Slaves, April 1865
Richmond Virginia, the Confederate Capitol fell on April 3, 1865. The following day, April 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln went to the fallen city. Throngs of slaves were in the streets, celebrating their first day of freedom, and welcoming Lincoln. Thomas Nast captured this historic event with his drawing presented at your right. This is perhaps the best portrait of Mr. Lincoln ever produced. It shows that while Lincoln was to tragically die 10 days later, he did, if only briefly, get to see the fruit of his leadership and resolve. He was able to see the grateful tears of the emancipated, and hear their cheers of appreciation. There is a fascinating story about this day, so please click on the image for the full story of the day that Abraham Lincoln walked the streets of the fallen Rebel Capitol.
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braham Lincoln Entering Richmond Virginia
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April 29, 2008 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, and The Politics of Economics, Barak Obama for President, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, Blacks in Politics, CLINTON ON JOBS, Obama and his personal struggle, One man can destroy a political campaign, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Who is Rev. Wright? and tagged: 1 Man can Destroy a Political Campaign---, Obama and Clinton Democratic Race, Obama and his personal struggle, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Who is Rev. Wright?
Poor Obama. If Obama did have a chance at the White House as the first black president….We all know who does not want that to happen…..Rev. Wright!
It would seem that Rev. Wright more than Hillary Clinton, or the Republican party or even Pat Buchanan for that matter does not want Obama to become the first black American president of the United States!
But why Rev. Wright? What did Obama do to deserve this apparently dilberate assualt on the minds, and mentality of the American public…black or white?
You, Rev. Wright keep spouting irrational statements about the black church in America.
You have disrespected the very memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.
It is shameful, and humilitating to me as an American.
Rev. Wright…you continously bring yourself into the spotlight for no reason at all.
Even Al Sharpton is more controled than that.
Please, members of Mr. Rev. Wrights congregation, talk to him. Reason with the Rev. Wright….even if Obama decided to walk away from the fight with the Clinton Team in defeat…do you have to make Obama walk away in shame?
Why should Obama have to walk away unable to hold up his head to battle forward for the rights and the new changes that he was attempting to bring to America as a country?
Even Obama’s mother who was an anthropologist would have disagreedwith the negative division that Rev. Wright is throwing into the Democratice race toward the White House.
Where was Rev. Wright years ago? Why does he continue to trash the Obama campaign?
*********** Is Rev. Wright being paid to talk, and talk, and talk and say things that are out of character for Obama? So strange….so very strange and so very, very sad.
Whatever Obama’s message ….it is getting trampled by the talkative Rev. Wright.
—riveroflifelisajoy
April 14, 2008 at 4:07 am · Filed under American Gangster played by Densel Washington, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Actors, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, Crime, drugs in the black community, Movie Review, NON Fiction, Racism and tagged: American Gangster played by Densel Washington, black crime in harlem, Black Male Actors, Movie Review
All I can say is WOW! I had written a post about my concept of an American Gangster some months ago and I was shocked to see it was very close in comparison to the true story I had related in an earlier blog. But anyway the movie was very unsettling.
I could not relate to the logic that possessed Frank Lucas–played by Densel Washington. The character of Frank Lucas was the most clear minded, scary character in a crime based movie I have ever seen.
He was cool, calm, and collected….but also he was smart and determined. From the movie bonus feature it was stated that Frank Lucas became a millionaire a day drug dealer back in the seventies.
He had no conscious about it either. Amazing and scary. He killed people by his own hand, and he made money from selling herion that killed people too.
But he was given a second chance and an opportunity to tell about corruption in the law enforcement personnel.
Very Scary, and very disturbing. The movie was well acted by Densel Washington. I was surprised to see Ruby Dee! Very well acted. Densel is always a Class Act—all by himself.
Check out this flict….again brutally disturbing and cold hearted at times. But informative about the 70’s. I was in junior highschool when this happened.
Just be prepared for the blatant murder and physical beatdowns that Densel does! If you did not go to the movie theatre like I did not…rent it or buy it. A must see thriller!
–riveroflifelisajoy
This picture was taken from archives on slavery. It was placed in this fiction story written by me….I thought a real picture would help the reader to understand the harsh treatment of slaves. It was a course that I took that enlightened me to the terrible experience of the MIDDLE PASSAGE and what it did to the many tribes that had been taken hostage by the SLAVE TRADERS. 
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Rev. Wright! PLEASE STOP TALKING!****(((((who is Rev. Wright???)))))*****—reflections on Rev. Wright and his ONE MAN ASSUALT ON THE OMBAMA CAMPAIGN
April 29, 2008 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, and The Politics of Economics, Barak Obama for President, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, Blacks in Politics, CLINTON ON JOBS, Obama and his personal struggle, One man can destroy a political campaign, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Who is Rev. Wright? and tagged: 1 Man can Destroy a Political Campaign---, Obama and Clinton Democratic Race, Obama and his personal struggle, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Who is Rev. Wright?
Poor Obama. If Obama did have a chance at the White House as the first black president….We all know who does not want that to happen…..Rev. Wright!
It would seem that Rev. Wright more than Hillary Clinton, or the Republican party or even Pat Buchanan for that matter does not want Obama to become the first black American president of the United States!
But why Rev. Wright? What did Obama do to deserve this apparently dilberate assualt on the minds, and mentality of the American public…black or white?
You, Rev. Wright keep spouting irrational statements about the black church in America.
You have disrespected the very memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.
It is shameful, and humilitating to me as an American.
Rev. Wright…you continously bring yourself into the spotlight for no reason at all.
Even Al Sharpton is more controled than that.
Please, members of Mr. Rev. Wrights congregation, talk to him. Reason with the Rev. Wright….even if Obama decided to walk away from the fight with the Clinton Team in defeat…do you have to make Obama walk away in shame?
Why should Obama have to walk away unable to hold up his head to battle forward for the rights and the new changes that he was attempting to bring to America as a country?
Even Obama’s mother who was an anthropologist would have disagreedwith the negative division that Rev. Wright is throwing into the Democratice race toward the White House.
Where was Rev. Wright years ago? Why does he continue to trash the Obama campaign?
*********** Is Rev. Wright being paid to talk, and talk, and talk and say things that are out of character for Obama? So strange….so very strange and so very, very sad.
Whatever Obama’s message ….it is getting trampled by the talkative Rev. Wright.
—riveroflifelisajoy
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