. . . is hidden behind a cloak of deception called: Political Correctness that shields you from people really knowing who you really are. I respect that many Negro's have changed the word too: "Afro-American.
I am half German and half English (Hey don't blame me) and if some Dutch or Colonist had come to Germany and captured me, and put me in chains, and tossed me in the cargo hole chained to 50 other German's; I would be unset, angry and scared when I found out they had tossed toss overboard 50 German's chained together on a previous voyage to get rid of the evidence so they could not be convicted of slave trading. Then, I'm sold on an auction block to a wealthy Cotton farmer to work his land for no pay, and given a crappy shack they called a house. Feed food meant for dogs, beaten several times a week. Then they take my wife and make her a house main and find out the owner Named Mr. Jefferson got her pregnant is all a man can handle. Then a president name Lincoln fights to free us Germans from slavery? when the truth be know the Civil war was really about commerce and control of products and the railroad; my children and their children and all my families children were never really free and they would continue to live in America a very racist nation. So, if my family won the right to vote and sit in front of the bus, I would not rename my ethnicity to German/English/American; nor would I run among my fellow Germans saying: "what's up Nazi." I also would not get upset if a non-German called me the "N" (Nazi) word. All person's of Color, Black, Negro's or Afro-Americans (what ever Label) need to heal within themselves by stop calling each other the "N" word. As a former clinical therapist I tried to help people of low self-esteem, and filled with anger and hurt that always heard negative things said about them, I would say: "It is not about you, it's about the person saying negative things or call you names. Would you buy a bag of dog poop (Feces) from another person? Also, few know anything about the human brain and our subconscious. What we hear is processed and stored in our brains be it knowledge, Good or Bad information. Negros need to consider dropping the "N" word for their vocabulary so the anger, hurt and hate can heal. Do you think racist people loose any sleep over what they rudely said to any race they hate? It's heart breaking that Negro's are shooting Negro's than make many White (Caucasian's) pleased. Remember that old nursery rhyme: Sticks, and stones, will break my bones . . . but names will never hurt me. it can be true if you let it. Afro-American's have called Caucasians: "Pooty, Honky/Honkie, Cracker Jack, Boss, Bird Turd, or Whites, does not change my blood pressure or elevate my emotions. It's my choice and I sleep very well at night; How about you? Wake up and save your children. White American's can keep building prisons for you and keep you poor, so open your heart, mind, and your own door.
“I Have a Dream Speech”
First Posted: 01/17/2011 2:29 pm EST Updated:
01/08/2013 8:54 am EST
Below in its entirety comes from:
www.huffingtonpost.com
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
I am half German and half English (Hey don't blame me) and if some Dutch or Colonist had come to Germany and captured me, and put me in chains, and tossed me in the cargo hole chained to 50 other German's; I would be unset, angry and scared when I found out they had tossed toss overboard 50 German's chained together on a previous voyage to get rid of the evidence so they could not be convicted of slave trading. Then, I'm sold on an auction block to a wealthy Cotton farmer to work his land for no pay, and given a crappy shack they called a house. Feed food meant for dogs, beaten several times a week. Then they take my wife and make her a house main and find out the owner Named Mr. Jefferson got her pregnant is all a man can handle. Then a president name Lincoln fights to free us Germans from slavery? when the truth be know the Civil war was really about commerce and control of products and the railroad; my children and their children and all my families children were never really free and they would continue to live in America a very racist nation. So, if my family won the right to vote and sit in front of the bus, I would not rename my ethnicity to German/English/American; nor would I run among my fellow Germans saying: "what's up Nazi." I also would not get upset if a non-German called me the "N" (Nazi) word. All person's of Color, Black, Negro's or Afro-Americans (what ever Label) need to heal within themselves by stop calling each other the "N" word. As a former clinical therapist I tried to help people of low self-esteem, and filled with anger and hurt that always heard negative things said about them, I would say: "It is not about you, it's about the person saying negative things or call you names. Would you buy a bag of dog poop (Feces) from another person? Also, few know anything about the human brain and our subconscious. What we hear is processed and stored in our brains be it knowledge, Good or Bad information. Negros need to consider dropping the "N" word for their vocabulary so the anger, hurt and hate can heal. Do you think racist people loose any sleep over what they rudely said to any race they hate? It's heart breaking that Negro's are shooting Negro's than make many White (Caucasian's) pleased. Remember that old nursery rhyme: Sticks, and stones, will break my bones . . . but names will never hurt me. it can be true if you let it. Afro-American's have called Caucasians: "Pooty, Honky/Honkie, Cracker Jack, Boss, Bird Turd, or Whites, does not change my blood pressure or elevate my emotions. It's my choice and I sleep very well at night; How about you? Wake up and save your children. White American's can keep building prisons for you and keep you poor, so open your heart, mind, and your own door.
Living Africans Thrown Overboard
I meditate, pray, and read Spiritual thoughts every day, so I may grow spiritually. I’m a person of White skin, so I must accept our sins against humanity. And the White skinned people have done far more destruction, evil, to humanity and the Earth than any other human with non-White skin. I could not get the word Negro out of my head. I think it’s a beautiful word, as Martin Luther King Jr. believed; because he used it no less that Eleven times in his famous speech:
“I Have a Dream Speech”
So If Negro
is acceptable to Martin Luther King
Jr., then I’m very comfortable using it. So please do not judge my heart if I
have not let you in. I have highlighted the word “Negro” use in his famous truth than many with
power and money will keep his dream from coming true.
I Have a Dream Speech (TEXT)
First Posted: 01/17/2011 2:29 pm EST Updated:
01/08/2013 8:54 am EST
Below in its entirety comes from:
www.huffingtonpost.com
It's a
great day to revisit the "I Have a Dream" speech he delivered in 1963
in Washington, D.C. Scroll down to read the text in full below.
Want to
see MLK Jr. himself deliver the "I Have A Dream" speech? You can
watch it here.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the
greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
“I Have a Dream Speech”
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic
shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous
decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been
seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to
end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years
later, the life of the Negro
is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the
midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still
languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in
his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a
check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the
Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a
promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a
promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed
the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted
on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead
of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check,
a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we
refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe
that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this
nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon
demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also
come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the
fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real
the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate
valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to
lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of
brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's
children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who
stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process
of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us
not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of
bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of
dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate
into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of
meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has
engulfed the Negro
community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our
white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize
that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that
their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always
march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees
of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be
satisfied as long as the Negro
is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be
satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain
lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot
be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to
a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of
their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites
Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York
believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we
will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness
like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of
great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail
cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you
battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police
brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work
with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to
South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums
and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and
will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face
the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream
deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and
live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia
the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to
sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of
Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the
heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its
vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black
boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and
white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be
exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be
made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the
South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of
despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the
jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With
this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle
together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing
that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be
able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of
liberty, of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's
pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become
true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let
freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the
heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of
California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain
of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of
Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring,
when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and
every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be
able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free
at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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