The International Black Summit Network2024-03-29T13:58:34ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuidhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1539605974?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://blacksummit.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1m091xx4brl0q&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN WHEN SOMEONE SAYS "I AM PRO-LIFE"?tag:blacksummit.ning.com,2019-06-12:2176111:Topic:569902019-06-12T22:03:32.247ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
<p>I have been in a lot of debate with women (Black and non-Black) over the recent abortion ban, and I just wanted to set the story straight regarding the term "Pro-Life", because some people's thought process is that when you claim "Pro-life" status, that it in some way relates to advocating rape and you are in some way celebrating rape and incest and this is my reply.</p>
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<p>Allow me to begin by saying I support women's rights. I'm all for choice too, so long as you don't kill…</p>
<p>I have been in a lot of debate with women (Black and non-Black) over the recent abortion ban, and I just wanted to set the story straight regarding the term "Pro-Life", because some people's thought process is that when you claim "Pro-life" status, that it in some way relates to advocating rape and you are in some way celebrating rape and incest and this is my reply.</p>
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<p>Allow me to begin by saying I support women's rights. I'm all for choice too, so long as you don't kill anybody. However, the argument begs the question, does abortion kill an innocent human being? If not, then we have no moral or ethical problem here. If however, abortion represents the killing of an innocent member of the human family (other than for medical reasons), it is immoral, unethical and cannot be justified. There is no such thing as a right to kill innocent people.</p>
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<p>I have heard certain views on this issue and I will say ignorance is bliss, however I don't think some of you "get it" or understand and I want people to understand and express their views if they don't agree. When someone says they are pro-life (depending on whom you're talking to) it simply means that they advocate the right for a human being to live, breathe, and grow. They by no means expect you to affiliate that with glorifying rape and incest. An unwanted pregnancy can be punishing to say the least, but a child is NOT a punishment.</p>
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<p>When our great-great-grandmothers gave birth to the slavemaster's children 400+ years ago, many of those children were conceived out of wedlock, hell some of our great grandmothers had up to 17 children (back to back) for the slavemaster and guess what Sisters? As much as we want to erase those painful memories of slavery, they KEPT those children, they loved them, breastfeed them, raised them to the best of their ability, and didn't try to kill them, and some even served as a cook and a nurse for the slavemaster's wife's children.</p>
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<p>Some people say when you say you are pro-life, you are celebrating rape. Who said a damn thing about celebrating rape! I do sympathize with victims of rape and incest, I really do. And if I can help someone I will do everything in my power to do so, but most of the time (and I hate to say it) but not every woman or young girl has an abortion due to rape, incest, or medical reasons. They are just using abortion as a means of birth control, or because they feel that having a child robs them of their freedom, their independence or their "hourglass" figure. These women don't want to do the right thing. Whatever the so-called feminist movement tells us, and however they tell us to act, is precisely what we do. They've been so conditioned and set in their ways, they just can't see the forest for the trees. <span class="messageContent">It just goes to show you what a self centered world we have become, it is a shame that most people cannot see the most basic principles of human life for what they really are. Abortion is murder, plain and simple. </span></p>
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<p>Safe and RESPONSIBLE sex should be something you should have learned from a young age by both parents and school health classes, that's all there is to it, being responsible with your body. To engage in a sexual act is to take the risk of creating a child, a human, and in every sense of the word, that being is a person. Such a decision is yours to make, but should you procreate a child, intended or not, wanted or unwanted, burden or not, that child is placed in YOUR womb.</p>
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<p>You can choose to give that child to another through adoption if you truly are unable, but to resort to such measures to save yourself a little possible remorse is just disgusting. Imagine the remorse knowing that you took your child, whom you will inevitably think of years down the road, and did not even give them the chance for life, instead, you killed them. An irreversible decision that was never yours to make.</p>
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<p>Life is precious, yet so often in this world where we in the name of "betterment of society" we choose to take advantage of the most innocent of children, and place their <b>needs</b> far below our <b>wants</b>. It is sick, selfish, and shameful. Each person is of value, it is not something a parent or any other can choose to give or take away, it is inherent and a basic human right. As is life. We can make excuse after pitiful excuse to justify ANY action if we are twisted enough, but such things always have been and always will be wrong. </p>
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<p>I am all for government programs that help the mothers carry their child full term and adopt them. In the meantime, get some common sense, use a pill or something and a condom. STOP being a fool, STOP using abortion as birth control and STOP giving your money to abortion clinics who aren't really concerned about your well being. All the abortion clinics are about is getting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the government each year. One or two abortions is a mistake, but multiple abortions ain't no mistake...that is more to the taste of a ratchet whore.</p>
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<p>I don't have to do a Google search, I've have met face to face with rape victims, abortion doctors and a few well-known OB-GYNs who are at the TOP of their game. I have reviewed the statistics and I could go deeper, but don't dare slam me for my views and assume that I'm an advocate for rapists.</p>
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</div> DONALD J. TRUMP IS THE MODERN DAY NIMROD OF YOUR BIBLE!!!tag:blacksummit.ning.com,2019-03-16:2176111:Topic:562852019-03-16T17:32:33.806ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
<p><span>DISCLAIMER: This is not a political argument for or against Donald Trump. This is a result of a strong series of thoughts that I can not shake and felt compelled to investigate and write.</span><br></br><br></br><span>Brothers and Sisters we begin with the following verses from the Bible in the Book Of Genesis:</span><br></br><br></br><span>Genesis Chapter 10: verses 6-8</span><br></br><span>Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV)</span><br></br><br></br><span>The Hamites</span><br></br><br></br><span>6 The sons of…</span></p>
<p><span>DISCLAIMER: This is not a political argument for or against Donald Trump. This is a result of a strong series of thoughts that I can not shake and felt compelled to investigate and write.</span><br/><br/><span>Brothers and Sisters we begin with the following verses from the Bible in the Book Of Genesis:</span><br/><br/><span>Genesis Chapter 10: verses 6-8</span><br/><span>Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV)</span><br/><br/><span>The Hamites</span><br/><br/><span>6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.</span><br/><br/><span>From Genesis 10:6-8, we learn that Nimrod is the son of Cush. Ham, son of Noah, is the father of Cush. So Nimrod is one of Noa</span><span>h’s great grandsons. In vs. 8, we learn that Nimrod was “a mighty warrior on the earth”. He establishe</span><span>d his first kingdoms of Babylon, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh, in Shinar. From this we can subtly glean that Ni</span><span>mrod was a very charismatic and mighty man who people, easily or not, followed.</span><br/><br/><span>Chapter 10 of Genesis co</span><span>vers a lot of ground, but we quickly learn that there was a standou</span><span>t reason to discuss the heritage and lineage of Noah. Nimrod, grandson</span><span> of Noah, became a mighty leader. He is referred to as a hunter, but the implication is he isn’t hunting for food. Rather he is huntin</span><span>g men, collecting them, making </span><span>them his own. In chapter 11, after the deep lineage of Noah is discussed, we almost immediately and rather abruptly turn to the very</span><span> familiar story of the Tower of Bab</span><span>el.</span><br/><br/><span>Genesis Chapter 11:1-7</span><br/><span>The Tower of Babel</span><br/><br/><span>1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As people moved eastw</span><span>ard,a they found a plain in Shinarb and settled there.</span><br/><br/><span>3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used b</span><span>rick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4Then they said, “Come,</span><span> let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a nam</span><span>e for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”</span><br/><br/><span>5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6The Lord said, “If as one people speaking t</span><span>he same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”</span><br/><br/><span>8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9That is why it was called Babel </span><span>—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered </span><span>them over the face of the whole earth.</span><br/><br/><span>According to the narrative in the Holy Quran, Nimrod, driven by his pride and arrogance, not only set his will against that of God, he proclaimed to be God himself! He also claimed to have the</span><span> power of creation.</span><br/><br/><span>The actual word "Nimro</span><span>d" derives from a Hebrew word meaning "rebel". Wow, we all kno</span><span>w that Trump is a rebel in nature, not afraid to use his power, </span><span>money and skills. Who is the most well-known man that makes the biggest towers on earth now? Donald Tr</span><span>ump.</span><br/><br/><span>Rather than slow walk you through this story and unpack it bit by bit, I am going to quickly give you the highlights and sum up th</span><span>e entire meaning of the story.</span><br/><br/><span>Nimrod wants his collection of people (the collective) to become like bricks. Cheaply made, easily exchangeable, and completely replaceable. He wants to build a giant city and a tower so</span><span> large it reaches the heavens and he wants his people, his slaves, to unite behind one common purpose “the greater good”.</span><br/><br/><span>This is troubling for God. It isn’t the model He had in mind. He doesn’t like bricks. He likes stone. Why? each stone is made by God, individually, special, and</span><span> unique, not at all interchangeable. With this He can create a beautiful mosaic of stone that He can shape and mold to fit His purpose. Nimro</span><span>d wants to change God’s people into boring, not special, irrelevant, uninspiring bricks and he wants them to be bound together by materialism so much so that they are so busy fitting in and being part of the collective, they lose who they are as individuals and never</span><span> notice their servitude.</span><br/><br/><span>As a small side point, it is humorous to consider that Nimrod wants to build a tower to</span><span> the heavens (build a wall), not so that we can ascend to God, but so God can descend to man. God has a brilliant sense of humor and irony, so He accepts the invitation and visits His people via this tower Nimrod has built. He doesn’t approve and destroys the tower. Talk about your irony.</span><br/><br/><span>The story has a very happy ending, though. God scattered his people (imagine scattering stones on the ground) and turned them from bricks back into stones. He freed them from the slavery of sameness and gave them back their individuality.</span><br/><br/><span>If this story doesn’t have meaning to us today, it is only because we refuse to see things for how they are. I see Donald Trump as a modern-day Nimrod. He is a hunter of men. He is very charismatic. He is very forceful and authoritarian and many people find these traits admirable and they trust and follow him for it. He is clearly a socialist, communist, collectivist, just as Nimrod was.</span><br/><br/><span>Like it or not, the story of the Tower of Babel is the story of man’s first attempt at socialism. God doesn’t approve of socialism, communism, collectivism. It isn’t in His plans for us to be interchangeable or replaceable. We are to be individuals, perfectly made and perfectly individual and unique. Trump, I believe, follows this very model. If it were otherwise, we would hear him talk about our founding documents more fervently. We would hear his love for individual liberty and the constitutional Republic we have. Our organic founding documents guarantee we will never strive to be a socialist collective. Rather, we will always be a group of individuals who value individual liberty and the rule of law above all else. So long as we know not to follow leaders like Trump or Nimrod who would take us there, we will always be free.</span></p> DR. KING'S LAST SPEECH: "AMERICA TOO IS GOING TO HELL"tag:blacksummit.ning.com,2019-03-16:2176111:Topic:561892019-03-16T17:28:13.813ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
<p><span>DISCLAIMER: This is the last speech that Dr. King wrote, he was planning to deliver this speech during a Sunday sermon on April 7, 1968. He was shot and killed before he had a chance to deliver this speech.</span><br></br><br></br><span>Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech-"America Too Is Going To Hell”</span><br></br><br></br><span>“My dear friends, my dear friend James Lawson, and all of t</span><span>hese dedicated and distinguished ministers of the Gospel assembled here tonight, to all of the…</span></p>
<p><span>DISCLAIMER: This is the last speech that Dr. King wrote, he was planning to deliver this speech during a Sunday sermon on April 7, 1968. He was shot and killed before he had a chance to deliver this speech.</span><br/><br/><span>Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech-"America Too Is Going To Hell”</span><br/><br/><span>“My dear friends, my dear friend James Lawson, and all of t</span><span>hese dedicated and distinguished ministers of the Gospel assembled here tonight, to all of the sanitation workers and their families, and to all of my brothers and sisters, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be in Memphis tonight, to see you here in such large and enthusiastic numbers.</span><br/><br/><span>As I came in tonight, I turned around and said to Ralph Abernathy, “They really have a great movement here in Memphis.” You’ve been demonstrating something here that needs to be demonstrated all over the country. You are demonstrating that we can stick together. You are demonstrating that we are all tied in a single garment of destiny, and that if one black person suffers, if one black person is down, we are all down.</span><br/><br/><span>If you will judge anything here in this struggle, you’re commanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor. So often we overlook the worth and significance of those who are not in professional jobs, or those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight, that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity, and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity, and it has worth. One day our society must come to see this. One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive. For the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician. All labor has worth.</span><br/><br/><span>You are doing another thing. You are reminding, not only Memphis, but you are reminding the nation that it is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages. I need not remind you that this is the plight of our people all over America. The vast majority of Negroes in our country are still perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. My friends, we are living as a people in a literal depression. Now you know when there is vast unemployment and underemployment in the black community, they call it a social problem. When there is vast unemployment and underemployment in the white community they call it a depression. But we find ourselves living in a literal depression all over this country as a people.</span><br/><br/><span>Now the problem isn’t only unemployment. Do you know that most of the poor people in our country are working everyday? They are making wages so low that they can not begin to function in the mainstream of the economic life of our nation. These are facts which must be seen. And it is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis and a full-time job getting part-time income.</span><br/><br/><span>You are here tonight to demand that Memphis do something about the conditions that our brothers face, as they work day in and day out for the well-being of the total community. You are here to demand that Memphis will see the poor.</span><br/><br/><span>You know, Jesus reminded us in a magnificent parable one day that a man went to Hell because he didn’t see the poor. And his name was Dives. There was a man by the name of Lazarus who came daily to his gate in need of the basic necessities of life. Dives didn’t do anything about it. He ended up going to Hell.</span><br/><br/><span>But there is nothing in that parable that says that Dives went to Hell because he was rich. Jesus never made a universal indictment against all wealth. It is true that one day a rich young ruler came before him talking about eternal life. And he advised him to sell all. But in that instance Jesus was prescribing individual surgery, and not setting forth a universal diagnosis.</span><br/><br/><span>If you will go on and read that parable in all of its dimensions, and all of its symbolism, you will remember that a conversation took place between Heaven and Hell. And on the other end of that long distance call between heaven and Hell was Abraham in Heaven talking to Dives in Hell. It wasn’t a millionaire in Hell talking with a multimillionaire in heaven. Dives didn’t go to Hell because he was rich. His wealth was an opportunity to bridge the gulf that separated him from his brother Lazarus.</span><br/><br/><span>Dives went to Hell because he passed by Lazarus every day, but he never really saw him. Dives went to Hell because he allowed Lazarus to become invisible. Dives went to Hell because he allowed the means by which he lived to outdistance the ends for which he lived. Dives went to Hell because he maximized the minimum, and minimized the maximum. Dives finally went to Hell because he wanted to be a conscientious objector in the war against poverty.</span><br/><br/><span>And I come by here to say that America too is going to Hell, if we don’t use her wealth. If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty, to make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to Hell. I will hear America through her historians years and years to come saying, “We built gigantic buildings to kiss the sky. We build gargantuan bridges to span the seas. Through our spaceships we were able to carve highways through the stratosphere. Through our airplanes we were able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. Through our submarines we were able to penetrate oceanic depths.”</span><br/><br/><span>But it seems that I can hear the God of the universe saying, “even though you’ve done all of that, I was hungry and you fed me not. I was naked and ye clothed me not. The children of my sons and daughters were in need of economic security, and you didn’t provide for them. So you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness.” This may well be the indictment on America that says in Memphis to the mayor, to the power structure, “If you do it unto the least of these my brethren, you do it unto me.”…</span><br/><br/><span>Now you’re doing something else here. You are highlighting the economic issues. You are going beyond purely civil rights to questions of human rights. That is distinct…</span><br/><br/><span>Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know now, that it isn’t enough to integrate lunch counters. What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have enough money to buy a hamburger? What does it profit a man to be able to eat at the swankest integrated restaurant when he doesn’t even earn enough money to take his wife out to dine? What does it profit one to have access to the hotels of our cities, and the hotels of our highways, when we don’t earn enough money to take our family on a vacation? What does it profit one to be able to attend an integrated school, when he doesn’t earn enough money to buy his children school clothes?</span><br/><br/><span>So we assemble here tonight. You have assembled for more than thirty days now to say, “We are tired. We are tired of being at the bottom. We are tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. We are tired of our children having to attend overcrowded, inferior, quality-less schools. We are tired of having to live in dilapidated, substandard housing conditions where we don’t have wall to wall carpet, but so often we end up with wall to wall rats and roaches.</span><br/><br/><span>“We are tired of smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society. We are tired of walking up the streets in search for jobs that do not exist. We are tired of working our hands off and laboring every day and not even making a wage adequate with daily basic necessities of life. We are tired of our men being emasculated, so that our wives and our daughters have to go out and work in the white ladies’ kitchens, cleaning up, unable to be with our children, to give them the time and the attention that they need. We are tired.”</span><br/><br/><span>So in Memphis we have begun. We are saying, “Now is the time.” Get the word across to everybody in power in this town that now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to make an adequate income a reality for all of God’s children, now is the time to make the real promises of democracy. Now is the time to make an adequate income a reality for all of God’s children, now is the time for city hall to take a position for that which is just and honest. Now is the time for justice to roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Now is the time.</span><br/><br/><span>Now let me say a word for those of you who are on strike. You’ve been out now for a number of days. But don’t despair. Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice. The thing for you to do is stay together. Say to everybody in this community that you’re going to stick it out to the end until every demand is met. And that you’re going to say, “We ain’t going to let nobody turn us around.” Let it be known everywhere that along with wages and all of the other securities that you are struggling for, you’re also struggling for the right to organize and be recognized…</span><br/><br/><span>We can all get more together than we can apart. This is the way to gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose. Power is the ability to effect change. We need power…</span><br/><br/><span>Now the other thing is that nothing is gained without pressure. Don’t let anybody tell you to go back on your job and paternalistically say, now, “You’re my man, and I’m going to do the right thing for you if you’ll just come back on the job.” Don’t go back on the job until the demands are met. Never forget that freedom is not something that must be demanded by the oppressor. It is something that must be demanded by the oppressed. Freedom is not some lavish dish that the power structure and the white forces imparted with making positions will voluntarily hand down on a silver platter while the Negro merely furnishes the appetite.</span><br/><br/><span>If we are going to get equality, if we are going to get adequate wages, we are going to have to struggle for it. Now, you know what, you may have to escalate the struggle a bit. If they keep refusing, and they will not recognize the union, and will not decree further check-off for the collection of dues, I’m telling you what you ought to do, and you’re together here enough to do it. In a few days you ought to get together and just have a general work stoppage in the city of Memphis.</span><br/><br/><span>If you let that day come, not a Negro in this city will go to any job downtown. And no Negro in domestic service will go to anybody’s house, anybody’s kitchen. And black students will not go to anybody’s school, and black teachers, and they will hear you then. The city of Memphis will not be able to function that day. All I’m saying is you’ve got to put the pressure on.</span><br/><br/><span>This is why we have decided that we’re going to Washington. We are going to the seat of government, starting out in April. We are going around the question of jobs or income. We aren’t going to Washington to beg, we are going to Washington to demand what is ours. I read in newspapers and other places questions: “Why are you going to Washington?” My only answer is that anybody who lives in America with open eyes and open mind knows that there is something wrong in this nation. I’m going to Washington to pick up my check.</span><br/><br/><span>You know, many years ago, America signed a huge promissory note which said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It didn’t say “some men,” it said “all men.” It didn’t say “all white men,” it said “all men,” which includes black men.</span><br/><br/><span>It said another thing which ultimately distinguishes our form of government from other totalitarian regimes. It said that every person has certain basic rights that are neither derived from nor conferred by the state. In order to discover where they came from, it is necessary to move back behind the dim mist of eternity. They are God-given.</span><br/><br/><span>America hasn’t lived up to this. She gave the black man a bad check that’s been bouncing all around. We are going to demand our check, to say to this nation, “We know that that check shouldn’t have bounced because you have the resources in the federal treasury.” We are going to also say, “You are even unjustly spending five hundred thousand dollars to kill a single Vietcong soldier, while you spend only fifty-three dollars a year per person for everybody categorized as poverty-stricken.” Instead of spending thirty-five billion dollars every year to fight an unjust, ill-considered war in Vietnam and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, we need to put God’s children on their own two feet.</span><br/><br/><span>I ask you to make this the beginning of the Washington movement, to go in by the thousands. And help us stand up nonviolently yet militantly. We are going to plague Congress. Documents have been written. They say what ought to be done. But nothing has been done. Nothing is ever done until you put the pressure on.</span><br/><br/><span>We have great challenges ahead, and great possibilities. And let us not lose hope. When you lose hope you die. We’ve got to keep going. I know how difficult it is. We’ve got to have that kind of ‘in spite of’ quality, to say that we are going on anyhow. We will keep the kind of hope alive that will make us know that if we will unite, if we will organize, we will be able to dramatize these issues to the point that something will be done.</span><br/><br/><span>“I know that some of you are probably tired, tired of the injustices. We get tired of having to fight for our rights on a day to day basis. It reminds us of some words that Jeremiah uttered, “is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there?” Jeremiah looked and saw the injustices of life, and he raised that question. Centuries later our slave foreparents came along. They had a hard time. They didn’t have anything to look forward to. Day after day it was long rows of cotton, sizzling heat, and the rawhide whip of the overseer. Women knew that so often they were forced to yield to the biological urgings of the mean boss. As soon as their children were born, they were snatched from their hands like a hungry dog snatches a bone from a human hand. So many things happened to them that could have caused them to lose hope.</span><br/><br/><span>I thank God tonight that our foreparents didn’t lose hope. They did an amazing thing. They looked back across the centuries. They took Jeremiah’s question mark, and straightened it into an exclamation point. They could say, “There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole. There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul.”</span><br/><br/><span>Then they came to another stanza that means so much to me, “Sometimes I feel discouraged.” I’m not going to be untrue to you tonight, sometimes I feel discouraged, having to live under the threat of death every day. Sometimes I feel discouraged having to take so much abuse and criticism, sometimes from my own people. Sometimes I feel discouraged, having to go to bed so often frustrated with the chilly winds of adversity about to stagger me. Sometimes I feel discouraged, and feel my work’s in vain.</span><br/><br/><span>But then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again. In Gilead, we make the wounded whole. If we will believe that, we will build a new Memphis, and bring about the day when every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill will be made low. The rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. We will be able to build right here a city which has foundations.</span><br/><br/><span>If we will believe this, we will do this; we will win this struggle and many other struggles. I close by saying, ‘Walk together, children.”"</span></p> African American Wisdom Summittag:blacksummit.ning.com,2016-02-04:2176111:Topic:479132016-02-04T11:57:27.466ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
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</ul> "The right to vote shall not be denied or abridged..."tag:blacksummit.ning.com,2012-11-05:2176111:Topic:406962012-11-05T00:19:52.621ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
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<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper"><span class="messageBody">From The U.S. Constitution 15th Amendment - Boldly Written<br></br>Section 1: THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE SHALL NOT BE…</span></h5>
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<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper"><span class="messageBody">From The U.S. Constitution 15th Amendment - Boldly Written<br/>Section 1: THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES OR BY ANY STATE ON ACCOUNT OF RACE, COLOR, OR PREVIOUS CONDITION OF SERVITUDE. Section 2: THE CONGRESS SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENFORCE THIS ARTICLE BY APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION. My question: To whom do you report what's going on in Florida and other states- who do you tell the law is being broken?</span></h5>
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</div> IBSUMMIT IN BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA FIRST TIMEtag:blacksummit.ning.com,2012-07-03:2176111:Topic:378932012-07-03T21:38:35.576ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362584"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362583"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362582"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362581"><div id="yiv254989520"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362580"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362579"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362578"><div id="yiv254989520"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362577"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362576"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362575"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362574"><div id="yiv254989520"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362573"><div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362572"><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362571"><b>T</b>he International Black Summit's 22nd Annual Event is taking place in Birmingham Alabama, Thursday through Sunday August 2nd - 5th, 2012. It is a Conversation </span><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362586">and event being given by life to the world through people of Black African Descent that </span><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362589">finds its' expression in the <span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362588">Declaration of The International Black Summit.*</span></span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362594">The Summit enfolds people from different countries, lifestyles, opinions and views to acknowledge, to celebrate and to empower each other in realizing their vision for the Black Community and the world. From all the diverse communities of the world that it has gathered: Atlanta, New Orleans, Baltimore,Toronto Canada, Chicago, Memphis, Philadelphia, New York City, Oakland California, Nairobi Kenya, Bahia, Brazil, Miami Florida, Top Hill Jamaica, Elmina Ghana, Highland Park Michigan, Johannesburg South Africa, Anguilla, London England and this year <span>Birmin</span><span>gha</span><span>m</span><span>, </span><span>Alabama, </span><span>the </span><span>Inte</span><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362596">rnational Black Summit 'experience' has caused a Global shift in the conversation and contribution that people of African Descent are to the world.</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362600">This Leap year marks the Eve of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Twenty-Second Annual Event of The International Black Summit. Perhaps it's no coincidence that we'll congregate in the city of Birmingham Alabama where WE have a date with the vision of the people of Birmingham AND the vision expressed in the Declaration of the International Black Summit. </div>
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<div class="yiv254989520yui_3_2_0_18_1341344826672186" id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362605"><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362604">We'd like to invite you to attend the Thursday Evening Opening Event on August 2nd, 7:00pm at the Doubletree Hilton Hotel. There is no cost to attend this program. Then, if you decide to participate in the Conversation of the Intl Black Summit Sessions Friday through Sunday, we'll let you know how to do that. </span><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362608">You may contact us by this email, or call Altheal @ 217-816-1578. We look forward to your participation </span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362618">It is a living document that was crafted by the participants of the very first Black Summit gathering in Atlanta Georgia, October 7, 1991. With and Inside of the Declaration we continue to bring forth who we declare ourselves to be. It speaks our visions and governs our relationship to each other and the world. Listen to the Declaration for yourself. What aspects of it speak to your vision?</div>
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362631"><font id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362630">WE DECLARE ourselves, our community and all communities whole and complete. There is nothing to do except be.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362634"><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362636">WE ASSERT that we are responsible for generating community as possibility and distinction. We listen for and grant being to the possibility and creation of unpredictable results. Our conversation of, about, and for those of African descent is one of power, self generation, abundance, responsibility, unity and integrity, with the possibility of being.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362638"><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362640">WE STAND for the expression of our spirituality; ending the murders of our men, women and children; building economies responsible for funding our community; maintaining wellness </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362642"><font id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362644">of being in our bodies; providing human services; establishing nurturing relationships; altering the conversation of who we are in the media; empowering our youth.</font></div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362647"><span id="yui_3_2_0_7_1341344833362646">WE DECLARE that our community manifest itself in the world as a contribution in the transformation of the universe.</span></div>
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</blockquote> THE IBSUMMIT BHAM ALABAMA ONLINE BROCHURE 2012tag:blacksummit.ning.com,2012-06-07:2176111:Topic:372462012-06-07T00:04:09.707ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
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<p><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1270361884?profile=original"/></p> Generation BEFY Network Award Nominationstag:blacksummit.ning.com,2010-09-08:2176111:Topic:55302010-09-08T04:59:05.000ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
Calling All Youth & The Purpose-Driven Too!<br />
Generation BEFY Network is a youth/community empowerment movement designed to act as a counter and deterrent to destructive lifestyle choices such as drugs, gangs, and violence. Generation BEFY encourages and assists those who desire to pursue higher education and/or personal self-development. GBN was introduced to the general public in April, 2010. Awards were developed and distributed in honor of the first speakers and contributors to the first…
Calling All Youth & The Purpose-Driven Too!<br />
Generation BEFY Network is a youth/community empowerment movement designed to act as a counter and deterrent to destructive lifestyle choices such as drugs, gangs, and violence. Generation BEFY encourages and assists those who desire to pursue higher education and/or personal self-development. GBN was introduced to the general public in April, 2010. Awards were developed and distributed in honor of the first speakers and contributors to the first conference/symposium. We are now issuing calls for submission of nominees for the 2011 awards which are as follows:<br />
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B.E.F.Y Empowerment will annually recognize and award 12 deserving individuals who have answered the call for positive change through educational excellence and pursuits, positive attitude, community activism, or personal self development. These awards are given in honor of founding contributors to the first annual BEFY Education & Networking Symposium held April 22-24, 2010 in Wilson, NC.<br />
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Forrest Toms Young Scholar Award: This annual award is given to a student who consistently maintains a 3.0 or higher GPA with aspirations to pursue higher education and/or an advanced degree.<br />
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Calvin Ellison Visionary Award: This annual award is given to an individual that is actively pursuing a vision that will positively impact the community.<br />
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Daryl Woodard Leader of Tomorrow Award: This annual award is given to an individual displaying positive leadership characteristics.<br />
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Marcedes Fuller Young & Gifted Award: This annual award is given to an individual under age 30 that is gifted in the area of ministry, arts, public speaking, or academics.<br />
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Howard/Fowler-Davis Destined For Greatness Award: This annual award is given to an individual who continues to accomplish and achieve in the face of obstacles and odds.<br />
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Robert X. Golphin Young Man Of Purpose Award: This annual award is given to a young male under age 30 that displays a positive attitude, excels academically, and possesses leadership qualities.<br />
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Reginald Bullock U-turn Award: This annual award is given to an individual once heading down a negative path personally, academically, spiritually or otherwise, who has taken steps to walk in a more positive direction.<br />
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Carletha Ward Determination Award: This annual award is given to an individual who is determined to pursue dreams and goals in the face of obstacles and/or adversity.<br />
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LaTanya Davis Young Lady of Purpose Award: This annual award is given to a young female under age 30 that displays a positive attitude, excels academically, and possesses leadership qualities.<br />
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Joseph S. Davis Chasing The Dream Award: This annual award is given to an individual who is enthusiastically pursuing a dream or goal that will financially empower the community.<br />
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Dameion L. Royal Mind on Ministry Award: This annual award is given to an individual whose focus is on developing a ministry that will bring spiritual empowerment to the community.<br />
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B.E.F.Y Empowerment Award: This annual award is given to an individual who is academically giifted, engages in volunteerism, and is an all-around positive individual focused on community.<br />
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To nominate an individual for any of the above awards, please contact S. Denice Newton at sdenicenewton@gmail.com and briefly describe why this nominee should be considered. A formal application will be sent to you at that time. Award Nomineestag:blacksummit.ning.com,2010-09-06:2176111:Topic:54402010-09-06T04:10:30.000ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
I am looking for nominees to receive Generation BEFY (black, educated, focused, yielded) awards based on academic achievement, community involvement, positive attitude, dedication, ministry work, etc. If you know a student, youth, or community member who fall into one of our award categories, please submit information. Visit <a href="http://sdenicenewtonnetwork.yolasite.com">http://sdenicenewtonnetwork.yolasite.com</a> for more information.
I am looking for nominees to receive Generation BEFY (black, educated, focused, yielded) awards based on academic achievement, community involvement, positive attitude, dedication, ministry work, etc. If you know a student, youth, or community member who fall into one of our award categories, please submit information. Visit <a href="http://sdenicenewtonnetwork.yolasite.com">http://sdenicenewtonnetwork.yolasite.com</a> for more information. Wedding Anniversaries - Anyone in 2010tag:blacksummit.ning.com,2010-09-05:2176111:Topic:54112010-09-05T13:22:56.000ZNiamo Muidhttp://blacksummit.ning.com/profile/NiamoMuid
Rose and Leutrell Osborne, Sr celebrate their 53rd wedding anniversary on September 9, 2010. We ask that our Higher Power bless others to have their anniversaries as well.
Rose and Leutrell Osborne, Sr celebrate their 53rd wedding anniversary on September 9, 2010. We ask that our Higher Power bless others to have their anniversaries as well.