Kirk Davis

Husband, Father, Son, Follower of Jesus, Pastor, Influencer, an Advocate for the voiceless.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

With all due respect, this doesn’t make any sense.

Breaking the color barrier in baseball it itself wasn’t political? Segregation was LAW. Making it political.

It feels like you’re working way too hard to prove something here.

[Sho Baraka @AmIshoBaraka]

Trump is selling bibles!

Featuring new scriptures:

- The love of money is perfectly fine.
- Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
- Love your nation with all your heart mind, soul and strength.
- Jesus ate at Strip clubs but did not eat with tax collectors.

[Adam Sandler @AdamSandler]

A true great man. Great dad. Great actor. Great athlete. So much fun to be around always. Smart as hell. Loyal as hell. Funny as hell. Loved his sons more than anything. What a guy!! Everyone loved him. My wife and I had the best times with him every time we saw him. Love to his entire family and Carl will always be known as a true legend.

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

@anthonyVslater Wiggins needs to hit free throws

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

@drelliott @opusfrere @drantbradley What evidence is there to suggest that airlines are hiring black men because of their race? I’ve seen the data that suggest white women get hired as DEI hires but not black people? Sowell noted this with AA as well that blacks did not really benefit

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

@drelliott @opusfrere @drantbradley Those same Asian doctors could have studied abroad and not gotten the rigorous training to be dentist but you’ll choose them. You don’t think that’s racist. Racism is assuming others are either superior or inferior based on their race ethnicity and gender.That’s what you’re doing

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

Images like this one continue to circulate, comparing Trump to Jesus. This is the definition of idolatry.

Trump is not our Savior… but he is a man desperately in need of Jesus.

In fact, if you read the list of seven deadly sins - pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth… And then compare those sins to the fruits of the Spirit - Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, & Self-Control… It is clear. A tree is known by its fruit.

And right now Donald Trump looks much more like the seven deadly sins than the fruits of the Spirit.

Follow Jesus, not Trump.

[Dee-1 @Dee1music]

Fans: The industry can’t exist without you.

Do yall understand how much power yall have? 🤔

What do you want to do with that power?

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

“He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.”
Psalms 147:3 NLT https://t.co/sRSE7IzLlI

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

@96hoya @annkillion Stop the snow job fam. It ain’t all bad in SF. Fillmore is beautiful today.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Georgetown University and the Jesuits are donating $27 million to descendants of enslaved people sold in 1838! The 272 enslaved people were sold from Jesuit plantations. Today, the school plans to donate over $1 billion to support anti-racism efforts! https://t.co/aChaTBp245

[Stanley Roberts 📺🎥 @StanleyRoberts]

Now we’re cooking with fire 🔥!
Keep going cause I ain’t broke enough yet! 💀💀💀💀

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1848, Lewis Latimer, an inventor and patent draftsman, was born.

Although Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, Lewis Latimer played an important role in its development.

In 1881, he patented a method for making carbon filaments, allowing light bulbs to burn for hours instead of minutes. He also drafted the drawings that helped Alexander Graham Bell receive a patent for the telephone.

—Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, to parents who had fled slavery. Latimer learned the art of mechanical drawing while working at a patent firm. Over the course of his career as a draftsman, Latimer worked closely with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, in addition to designing his own inventions. He died in Flushing, Queens, New York, on December 11, 1928.

Inventor and engineer Lewis Howard Latimer was the youngest of four children born to George and Rebecca Latimer, who had escaped from slavery in Virginia six years before his birth. Captured in Boston and brought to trial as a fugitive, George Latimer was defended by abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. He was eventually able to purchase his freedom, with the help of a local minister, and began raising a family with Rebecca in nearby Chelsea. George disappeared shortly after the Dred Scott decision in 1857, possibly fearing a return to slavery and the South.

After his father's departure, Lewis Latimer worked to help support his mother and family. In 1864, at the age of 16, Latimer lied about his age in order to enlist in the United States Navy during the Civil War. Returning to Boston after an honorable discharge, he accepted a menial position at the Crosby and Gould patent law office. He taught himself mechanical drawing and drafting by observing the work of draftsmen at the firm. Recognizing Latimer's talent and promise, the firm partners promoted him from office boy to draftsman. In addition to assisting others, Latimer designed a number of his own inventions, including an improved railroad car bathroom and an early air conditioning unit.

Latimer's talents were well-matched to the post-Civil War period, which saw a large number of scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Latimer was directly involved with one of these inventions: the telephone. Working with Alexander Graham Bell, Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell's design of the telephone. He was also involved in the field of incandescet lighting, a particularly competitive field, working for Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison.

Latimer's deep knowledge of both patents and electrical engineering made Latimer an indispensible partner to Edison as he promoted and defended his light bulb design. In 1890, Latimer published a book entitledIncandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System. He continued to work as a patent consultant until 1922.

Latimer married Mary Wilson in 1873, and they had two daughters together. The Latimers were active members of the Unitarian Church and Lewis Latimer was consistently involved in Civil War veterans groups, including the Grand Army of the Republic. In addition to his drafting skills, Latimer enjoyed other creative pastimes, including playing the flute and writing poetry and plays. In his spare time, he taught mechanical drawing and English to recent immigrants at the Henry Street Settlement in New York.

Lewis Howard Latimer died on December 11, 1928, in Flushing, Queens, New York. His wife, Mary, predeceased him by four years.

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

@pastoremase Praying

[ISHON @eshonburgundy]

I gotta check myself…all the time!

[Kirk Davis @jahrapha]

@efremsmith Don’t go back now fam!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: The county commissioner from Oklahoma who was caught on tape discussing lynching Black people and killing reporters has RESIGNED.

McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings officially turned in his written note of resignation.

In the recording, Jennings appears to complain about not being able to hang Black people, saying: “They got more rights than we got.”

More than 100 people gathered outside the McCurtain County Courthouse in Idabel earlier this week, with many of them calling for the sheriff and other county officials to resign.

GOOD RIDDANCE!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Ten days after North Dakota Republicans voted against providing free lunch to hungry low-income students they pass legislation to give themselves free money to pay for their own meals — meaning they are literally taking food out of the mouths of children to save themselves a few bucks. RT IF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM SHOULD BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE!