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Topic
for
3/31/97:
This Easter, the most important lesson I will try to apply throughout the entire year is:
Name: j johnson Email: tezamiji@ix.netcom.com Response:
This easter the most important lesson i w ill try to apply througout the entire year is to
stand up and speak out in defense of the nubian peoples all over the world.
even when there is the possibility of severe consequences. I will continue
to work at losing that illusion called fear so that i can successfully go
about the business of contributing to the awareness of the value of all of
my sisters and brothers. I will truly experience love by living in the
moment,using the physical senses but most of all the spiritual ones. I
will respect my daughters and their intelligence. and acknowledge verbally
and motherly their value simply because they are and not for what
they have materially accomplished. I will completely and forever
adore and treasure my fifteen year old grand-daughter. and teach her
with enthusiasim, who and what she is. making sure that she realizes
there is a purpose for living. and to help fullfill that purpose in
any way that I can. i will continue to give my life partner, my
husband, the respect he deserves by making the attempt to understand
the pain he has experiencd in this country simply because he is
a black man recognizing the fact of how difficult it is to be a man
and all it represents, in this country.Most of all and absolutely I will
continue to grow by loving the true me from my lovely hair, black skin
to the real substance of life MELANIN.
Name: Email: gaslat@worldnet.att.net Response:
i grew up christian but as i became a teenager i
questioned myself about god and all the things i
had been taught. i came to the conclusion that
god is within me and you.jesus rose..symboizes
getting up no matter what cross you bear..get up
black people have a tradition of getting up and
baring many crosses.so although i dont believe
in the christian version i do believe there is a
lesson.
Name: Solomon Landers, Memra Inst. Email: Numberup@worldnet.att.net Response:
The value of self-sacrifice and the joy of giving. Jesus is the perfect example, and we are not perfect, but we all have something to contribute to our communities, families, friends, and neighbors. Selfishness is ultimately self-defeating. One does not have to be rich to be a philanthropist. Everyone has something to give: a kind word at the proper time; a smile or a hand in friendship; time to mentor a child or aid a charitable cause. Life is so precious and our needs as a people are so many, that it giving we learn to re-value ourselves and our people.
Name: dottie Email: Response:
to try and teach our young that bumping and gringing as well as showing as much flesh as possible is not nececcary. Christ could not help his exposure on the cross. But; parents get with it and save our youth!
Videos can be fun but they do not have to look like we are still around campfires on a plantation entertaining the "Master".......There is so much more to Black Folk than SEX......SEX......AND MORE SEX. Is this what Christ died for?????????
I really wish BET or any station watched predominately by blacks would show at least ONE religious show at this time of year.
Name: Marcie Email: MMcgee1048@aol.com Response:
Rebirth. Letting go of the limitations, failures, mistakes...all that stuff from the past. I want to just do what I say is important. To walk my own talk, yet saying "thy will be done" in and through me.
Name: Tremel Email: Response:
Try to let my light shine, everyday. And not just for the select few in my inner circle. I feel blessed by the new friends I have made in this foriegn land (Italy) over the last 2 months. There eagerness to help out without expecting reciprocation, saying nice things, or just reminding me of my "down home folks" has helped make my stay interesting & enjoyable, rather than lonely and bleak.
