Michelle and I are heartbroken to hear about the passing of our friend Charles Ogletree. He was an advocate for social justice, an incredible professor, and a mentor to many – including us. Our thoughts are with his wife Pamela, his entire family, and everyone who knew and loved this remarkable man.
@ZayidBaba performs Spirit of The Dead at the #teachtruth event in Newark. “I used the piece because of its grounding character insisting that African descendants remember and give proper homage to our ancestors who endured the Transatlantic Slave Trade and all of its domestic diasporic residual horrors,” he said. “There can be no healing from those centuries of genocidal abuse without proper acknowledgment of it so wrongly happening. Truth in education can be a beginning for that acknowledgment...” @NJ_Opinion@LawrenceHamm7
Be careful about giving too much weight to tradition without considering the God may be doing a new thing. Don’t tell Joshua to put away the ark and get a rod…Joshua 4:4
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”
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