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NEARLY DYING TO VOTE…AMELIA BOYNTON (ROBINSON) THE FACE OF COURAGE

28 Saturday Feb 2015

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th (22)How much more will we tip- toe and try  NOT to offend people who have a small recollection of what is  really  happening in this country , this hour? I know many love the watered down, and fantasy of everyday existing for people who stress and strive just to keep their head above waters. 

To hear about how cruel people were and still is  one of those things that American still fail to come to grips with. There is no post-racial anything… It is.. what it is! Any tactics to keep people from thriving in the shark infested waters of everyday racism. It’s easy to ignore history but quite difficult to come to grip on how cruel human beings can be! When people were actually killed that we might see the power of what are voices are through voting!

The power of voting will make a difference in what we have been subject to today. It’s a sad state of affair that many will skip the raw truth because it makes you do re-assessment of what is important.

Although, many fail to recognize the unfairness and inequality that people go through and continued to go through.  To be heard and ask for your rights to be respected could mean even death.  th (20)

This is why we keep reminding people of what happened in the past, because the different maniacal methods to keep people from rising and flourishing to their best this day. Sane evil is rising again appearing as “the  angel of  light”.

How can people be at their best being oppressed?  Voting has been neglected and taken lightly. A stand in one area means victory in many others! Selma, represented a severe hardship of just wanting to vote and being treated fairly.  Selma was 50% black but only 1% were registered voters.

How did these kind of monsters come about?  Why the threat of voting?

It can bring change! 

Amelia Boynton,  was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. She was a woman who had  taken education very seriously!  She became well versed…in the oppression of our people to stand up for the disenfranchisement and segregation of blacks.

She was the first black  and first woman to run  for Congress,  the Democratic Party in the 1964 in Alabama.th (21)

It was Boynton, that organized the march to the state capital in Alabama along with James Bevel, which was called “Bloody Sunday”  March 7, 1965. What was the “beginning” of what change the life of others all across this country. 

Demonstrators were beaten, by the state and county police  for crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.  It was Amelia Boynton, who lied on the bridge beaten almost to death. Although, many died during the time period of March 7-25,1965.

However, two other marches came after such a painful marker in our history before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been passage for the African-Americans. Amelia Boynton had a lot of God and whole lot of courage!

Thank God she survived and is a 103 years young today…residing in
Savannah, Georgia.

THEOLOGIAN SCHOLAR REVEREND JAMES REEB

20 Tuesday Jan 2015

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  th (7)                                                                                          There are  often things we glaze over in our history.  Even in all of my studying I remember lightly who certain people were during the Civil Rights Movement and what powerful impact they had. Not getting  a better understanding of each individual during the “Movement”.  Each yaar I am peaked with more interests and more research.

So,  I  read about Reverend James Reeb.  I found him to be fascinating man with genuine compassion for people.  His heart for people who were less fortunate was almost mind consuming.  He got down in the clenches to make a difference!

Reverend James Reeb, Born on New Years Day in Wichita, Kansas (January 1, 1927 …Died March 9, 1965) was a “Civil Rights Activist, Social Worker, an Unitarian Universalist, and a Scholar of  Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary and St. Olaf College. An ordained Universalist Minister in 196

Check this out…He and his wife lived in the poorest part of a black neighborhoods in Boston, Massachusetts… He felt would really count the most and can monitor and service the need of the people. 

He grew away from “traditional” church and wanted to make an impact in “Social Justice”… He was  also a  member of the “Southern Christian Leadership Conference”. Reverend  Reeb and  two other Unitarian clergymen  Reverend Clark Olsen and Reverent Olaf Miller  came to  Selma, Alabama to protest for Afro-American voting rights. 

On March 9, 1965 after leaving an integrated restaurant. All three ministers were brutally attacked by three white men  with clubs  beating Reverend Reeb in the head who had to undergo brain surgery in Birmingham  but died two days later. 

March 10…

This is when Dr. KIng made the speech regarding “cowardly attacks” and asked for prayers and protection.  Pay attention to all of this…

March 15…635570253527327315-AP650315039-4

This then “sparked” the outrage of many in this country which lead to Lyndon B. Johnson  call  his widow and giving Congress a draft of the “Voting Rights Act” . In the same day  Dr. King did Reverend Reeb eulogy in the Brown’s Chapel in Selma!

April 1965…

Three men were in indicted and were acquitted in December of the 1965. The 46-year-old case was reopened by The Anniston Star and The Clarion Ledger in 2007 as the Civil Rights Cold Case of Jackson, Mississippi…

In the movie “Selma” Jeremy Strong portrays Reverend Reeb.  I have never heard of much talk about people that put a dent in history with what part they played in history even unto death!

 

 

SELMA WAS MORE THAN A “BLACK MOVIE”… IT WAS APART OF OUR HISTORY

19 Monday Jan 2015

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pfleger-march-0304Everyone thanks Pastor Pfleger, who rented out two theaters for anyone to go see the movie “Selma” this weekend.  It was remarkably well put together and just in time  for the “The Dr. Martin Luther King” weekend celebrations. 

The movie” Selma” wasn’t  just a ” Hollywood” version of what someone thought or cosmetically  thrown history together.  Sorry, for those who criticizes that the movie did no justice… I disagree

1) It stirred up  another level of discomfort

2) It agitating those who always about talk and no-show

3) It reminded many people of the level of ignorance and sleep walking while rights are being taken away

4) Even for the critics it puts them back in the books of history that told the truth.

5)Selma  should have served as reminder  to the people who do this for the game of being posted up, or brownie points …People sacrificed and died that we can begin to make head weight through the challenges and frustration of discrimination of every kind! 

caf9c7e9576a6699e79ff7756331c9d32e080e98David  Oyelow,  is no stranger to great acting and his craft… An “Oscar” might be nice but cannot define gifts and talents of this kind in his artistry!  He is definitely on the map for a game changer in messiness of Hollywood!

Kudos to the entire cast who did a phenomenal job at bringing history to life…  and Producers Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt…. 

Lastly for the ignorant folks who rant about another so-called “black movie”… I really can’t dignify your ignorance with a response! No one can deny history…I have seen many movies with fine actors of every kind of  ethnic group… but I have never heard of  a “white, red, brown, or yellow movie”…  It’s time we take a better assessment of just how ignorant “you” are.  Afro Americans had to be soldiers in the time when people said that there was no war!  Careful, this is why movies like this should be made to remind us just how far we “haven’t  come!

Yet, again… THANKS PASTOR PFLEGER, GREAT JOB!

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