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Please help Jasmina Anema
Jasmina is a 6-year-old child who is suffering from NK cell Leukemia. This a a particularly virulent blood disease, and even after a blood transfusion, the child may still be dying. PLEASE HELP! Go to Jasmina's website to learn about her and see what you can do to help.
Just think: when the people of Montgomery, Alabama broke the racist bus system, they did it by car-pooling, creating alternate bus lines, moonlighting as taxi drivers, and all sorts of creative measures. Then, when they won the war, they went right back to riding the buses! What if they had kept the alternative transportation lines? What if they had built a cooperative bus service? What if we had created our own cafeterias and restaurants instead of sitting at someone else?s lunch counter demanding that they take our money?
This is just me rambling again, but what if?...
"History records that slaves, by virtue of their experiences and the knowledge gained in captivity in strange lands,have eventually become masters of themselves. Let us therefore use adversity as others have done. Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously." - MARCUS GARVEY
Someone I love emailed this tidbit to me a couple of weeks ago, and it completely blew my mind. then I got distracted and never got back to it, but I want to share it with you. This video should make you think about the things we do that are so very self-destructive.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO!"
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now pay attention to the moral lesson below.
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THE MOUSETRAP
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: ?There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!?The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me." "I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. "Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral; the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.
So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to do everything we can to help each other. Remember; a candle loses NOTHING when it lights another candle.
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1814. Joseph Savary; a Haitian, and a hero at the Battle of New Orleans, became the highest-ranking Black soldier in the history of the U.S. when was promoted to the rank of second major.
1912. Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr., is born in Washington D.C. The son of Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr., the first Black general in the U.S. Army, he will become the commanding officer of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen and the first Black general in the Air Force.
1946. Stephen Bantu Biko was born in South Africa. The pan-Africanist and founder of the Black... (continue reading)
