KNOW YOUR HISTORY TO KNOW YOUR FUTUURE
GREAT AFRICAN AMERICANS TO RESEARCH
Marcus Garvey Garrett Morgan
What do you do- to lift God’s Spirit up?..
From talking to many young African American kids , including my own , they know very little about our history, our culture and our journey.. From many talks with college students, I’ve come to realize that many young kids today don’t want to talk about the past or haven’t a clue maybe not even a care.. It’s like it’s a figment of their imagination.. The question is , who’s fault is it?.. So much time has past since Dr. Martin Luther King’s Death, that an generational gap has emerged to separate our youth from our past realities.. Many don’t know the truth about our history.. Movies like “The Help” bare light on the past of the American History. Many things that I’ve seen and learned has a child , no longer exist in today’s society and much worse , what’s ahead for the future of our youth.. The school system teach them not of our history and the way of the world does only harm in teaching our youth.. when my son graduated from college , he told me he had a class that taught -“How CapitalismUnderdeveloped Black America”a book by: Manning Marable, which teaches ivy league college students this practice of American Government and laws used and passed and American Business policies and practices to regulate the wealth..Government policies that structured the categorical levels of jobs types per school districtions.. Documentaries such as “Waiting for “Superman”
and “THE BEAUTIFUL TRUTH
” investigates and reports these types of facts.. This type of class or studies, I should say is not a taught curriculum in rural public schools and small colleges across the country..Yet only our kids , including myself were only taught ti be good workers and pilars of the community at large, in general we all were taught to be Slaves.. Since our Ancestors fought and died for your Freedoms and Privileges , Make them proud , Become Doctors , Lawyers , Engineers , Scientist ,Bankers, Business owners, Mortgage Brokers, Real estate Investors Writers, Directors, MediaEntrepreneurs, ETC…
All Must know for ones Self.. Seek Truth!…
Medgar Evers
Freedom Riders Rosa Parks Thurgood Marshall George Washington Carver
Lewis Latimer Jan Ernst Matzeliger Booker T.Washington
Sojourner Truth Madame C.J. Walker Jane Pittman
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING’ “I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH”
Nat Turner’s Rebellion (also known as the
Southampton Insurrection) was a
slave rebellion that took place in
Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831.
[1] Led by
Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55–65
white people, the highest number of fatalities caused by slave
uprisings in the
South. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for over two months afterward.
In the aftermath, there was widespread fear, and white militias organized in retaliation against slaves. The state executed 56 slaves accused of being part of the rebellion. In the frenzy, many innocent enslaved people were punished. At least 100
blacks, and possibly up to 200, were killed by militias and mobs. Across the South, state legislatures passed new laws prohibiting education of slaves and free blacks, restricting rights of assembly and other civil rights for free blacks, and requiring white ministers to be present at black worship services.
Turner was hghly intelligent, and learned how to read and write at a young age. He grew up deeply religious and was often seen fasting, praying or immersed in reading the stories of the Bible.
[4] He frequently had
visions, which he interpreted as messages from God. These visions greatly influenced his life. For instance, when Turner was 21 years old he ran away from his owner, Samuel Turner, but returned a month later after becoming delirious from hunger and receiving a vision that told him to, “…return to the service of my earthly master.”
[5] In 1824, while working in the fields under his new owner, Thomas Moore, Turner had his second vision, in which “the Saviour was about to lay down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and the great day of judgment was at hand.” Turner often conducted
Baptist services, and preached the Bible to his fellow slaves, who dubbed him “The
Prophet.”
Turner also had an influence over white people. In the case of Ethelred T. Brantley, Turner said that he was able to convince Brantley to “cease from his wickedness.” By the spring of 1828, Turner was convinced that he “was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty.” While working in his owner’s fields on May 12, Turner “heard a loud noise in the heavens, and
the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said
the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.”
In 1830, Joseph Travis purchased Turner and became his master. Turner later recalled that Travis was “a kind master” who had “placed the greatest confidence in me.” Despite the decent treatment received from Travis, Turner eagerly anticipated God’s signal to start his task of “slay[ing] my enemies with their own weapons.” Turner witnessed a
solar eclipse on February 12, 1831 and was convinced that this was the sign from God. Following in the steps of the late
Denmark Vesey, he started preparations for a
rebellion against the white slaveholders of Southampton County by buying
muskets. Turner
“communicated the great work laid out [for me] to do, to four in whom I had the greatest confidence” – his fellow slaves Henry, Hark, Nelson, and Sam.
[12]Beginning in February 1831, Turner came to believe that certain atmospheric conditions were to be interpreted as a sign that he should begin preparing for a rebellion against the slave owners.On February 11, 1831, an annular
solar eclipse was seen in Virginia. Turner saw this as a black man’s hand reaching over the sun, and he took this vision as his sign. The rebellion was initially planned for July 4,
Independence Day, but was postponed for more deliberation between him and his followers, and due to illness. On August 13, there was another solar eclipse, in which the sun appeared bluish-green (possibly from debris deposited in the atmosphere by an eruption of
Mount Saint Helens). Turner took this occasion as the final signal, and a week later, on August 21, he began the rebellion.
What do you do to lift God’s Spirit up?…
God said it 1st – for It Is Written what will happen in these last days.. As I learn throughout time , God always chose someone to lift his spirit up!. To lift his Name up!.. But Yet be a BLESSING to others!.. And because of God’s Chosens, God gets the Glory!..Since the Beginning of our Story – Those Chosen had to sacrafice of their own Lives-So that You may Live to Tell the Story–So they’ll Know!.. God took A weak People from among the rest of the World and made the Strong a Mighty Nation – F1rst.. They served 400 yrs… God Promised Abraham to save the Last!. And Restore Them.. They served 400 yrs!… They never Lost Faith in God to be Free!.. The 1st. got Moses- The 2nd got King- We all got Jesus & GOD GOT ALL!…
BrotherHooD of DisCiples 