LET US LIFT EACH OTHER UP!
One way to overcome our historic oppression in this era is to lift up those among us who have fought the good fight of faith for truth, justice, and right, even if they did not achieve fame, fortune, glory, or favorable recognition for their work.
These thoughts have occurred to me as I reflect upon a Bison brother, who today has related that his father, who was also a Howard Law School graduate (1964), had not only not achieved the material rewards, i.e. riches, positions for his civil rights work; but who had suffered due to it, for it, greatly.
Not only could I, personally, professionally, relate to that, I did and do relate to that powerful testimony every day that I live!
Never mind his sufferings, that brave black man produced him! A son who summoned up the courage to tell the truth that is common to us blacks.
At our historical base are countless, selfless, faceless, nameless, men, women, and children who have gone on before us ; who have made a way out of no-way; and who have been all but forgotten, not just by a black community, but by their own families! Memories are our actual histories!
Let us, therefore, lift each other up in love , and all of those persons who are personally known to us, who have fought, in some way, for the right in their time, in their way. In lifting these up, in lifting ourselves up , we fortify, edify, vivify our own lives and progeny.
Amen 🙏
Sunday, February 11, 2018
LIFT UP
LET US LIFT EACH OTHER UP!
One way to overcome our historic oppression in this era is to lift up those among us who have fought the good fight of faith for truth, justice, and right, even if they did not achieve fame, fortune, glory, or favorable recognition for their work.
These thoughts have occurred to me as I reflect upon a Bison brother, who today has related that his father, who was also a Howard Law School graduate (1964), had not only not achieved the material rewards, i.e. riches, positions for his civil rights work; but who had suffered due to it, for it, greatly.
Not only could I, personally, professionally, relate to that, I did and do relate to that powerful testimony every day that I live!
Never mind his sufferings, that brave black man produced him! A son who summoned up the courage to tell the truth that is common to us blacks.
At our historical base are countless, selfless, faceless, nameless, men, women, and children who have gone on before us ; who have made a way out of no-way; and who have been all but forgotten, not just by a black community, but by their own families! Memories are our actual histories!
Let us, therefore, lift each other up in love , and all of those persons who are personally known to us, who have fought, in some way, for the right in their time, in their way. In lifting these up, in lifting ourselves up , we fortify, edify, vivify our own lives and progeny.
Amen 🙏