Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
🚨 WOW! Dr. ALVEDA KING just said it PERFECTLY on Capitol Hill
"I still have a dream. I dream that one day we will move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD'S power and human dignity!"
"I reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as THREATS or TERRORISTS simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought!" 🙏🏻
"I dream that Americans will one day see each other, not as enemies, but as neighbors. I dream that we will hear each other, see each other, and recognize that every human life has value from the womb to the tomb and beyond."
"We are as scripture teaches, one blood, one human race. And if we remember that truth, we can build a future worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us."
"We must speak out for truth and against the forces that would manufacture hate, fear, division, and violence simply to line their pockets and further their political ambitions."
"God bless America, God bless you!"
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To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.
I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.
One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”
It knocked me back.
I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”
I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.
That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.
I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.
I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.
People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.
I'll tell you why.
Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.
I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.
In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.
The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.
You just have to stop running.
Every now and then I think about those I respect most for driving good times with UK football over the years and I almost always turn to paw paw Brooks (@UKcoachbrooks). He’s the coach I respect most for classy way he ran Big Blue football at a time fans were desperate for hope.
Living by the Spirit, walking in the Spirit, praying in the Spirit, and loving by Holy Spirit is the joy of life. Holy Spirit saves us from poor decisions, angry responses and a defeatist mentality. I pray for you today for a glorious reality of Holy Spirit to fill you!
There are nearly 200 billions Galaxies in our universe and each galaxy has over 1 TRILLION stars. How great is our God, how vast is His greatness! Yet HE watches over you (and me) each moment and knows our every thought and cares about every detail of our lives. See why the angels bow before Him?
Pentecost Sunday — the final day of Eastertide, also known as the Great Fifty Days.
Eastertide began on Easter Sunday and reaches its fulfillment today, May 24, with the outpouring of Holy Spirit.
🔖Acts 2:2-3
Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
Today, Resurrection turns into Wind and Fire.
- The Wind arrives first: loud, powerful, filling every space, bringing tender movement and fresh air.
- The Fire follows: gentle yet holy, resting on each one, bringing purifying heat and illuminating light.
Together they create the perfect climate for transformation.
🙏Come, Holy Spirit.
Blow through every hidden corner.
Burn away every false covering.
Make us alive with Your Wind and bright with Your Fire.
May that same Wind fill your house today.
May that same Fire rest on you.
🚨President Trump is at direct war with the European monarchy and Oligarchs, led by the British Monarch….our criminal crown.
This is exactly why America is being bled dry through the central banking system. The same Royal families (the British Monarchy) created the Federal Reserve, launched the fraudulent environmental movement, and started every major war including WW1 and WW2.
Trump is dismantling centuries of Monarchy control. Fake King Charles and the criminal monarchy is finished.
This is bigger than we think.
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This is the greatest example of what @UKMitchBarnhart has built. A collection of teams who all compete for championships and a staff who genuinely cares about every single team and athlete.