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20.Atlanta.CHRISTIAN.Photography.Psychology.musicals.bacon.Natural Hair.x-cheerleader. This is a randomness blog. Random things I think about and see.
One of my favorite books!When my daughter was young I would tell her stories about dark skinned girls who could do great things. Since the world doesn’t always value dark skin as much as it should, I wanted to make sure she appreciated hers. I guess The Skin I’m In came out of my need to discuss the issue further.
- Sharon G. Flake
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I made my little sister read this book.
Mr. Professor, sir? YOU GOT OWNED!
Professor :
You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student :
Yes, sir.
Professor:
So, you believe in GOD ?
Student :
Absolutely, sir.
Professor :
Is GOD good ?
Student :
Sure.
Professor:
Is GOD all powerful ?
Student :
Yes.
Professor:
My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
Professor:
You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student :
Yes.
Professor:
Is satan good ?
Student :
No.
Professor:
Where does satan come from ?
Student :
From … GOD …
Professor:
That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student :
Yes.
Professor:
Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student :
Yes.
Professor:
So who created evil ?
Professor:
Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student :
Yes, sir.
Professor:
So, who created them ?
Professor:
Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student :
No, sir.
Professor:
Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student :
No , sir.
Professor:
Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student :
No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor:
Yet you still believe in Him?
Student :
Yes.
Professor :
According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student :
Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor:
Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student :
Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor:
Yes.
Student :
And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor:
Yes.
Student :
No, sir. There isn’t.
Student :
Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
Student :
What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor:
Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student :
You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor:
So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student :
Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor:
Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student :
Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life:
just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor:
If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student :
Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
Student :
Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
Student :
Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
Student :
Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
Professor:
I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student :
That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
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And tell him what Jesus says about us. I am a new creation.
(Source: snitchy)
africanamericanhisandherstory:
Who is Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman?
In 1810, when Saartjie Baartman was in her early twenties, she was persuaded by an English ship’s doctor, William Dunlop, to travel to England to make her fortune. However, as a Khoikhoi woman she was considered an anthropological freak in England, and she found herself put on exhibition, displayed as a sexual curiosity. Dubbed The Hottentot Venus, her image swept through British popular culture. Abolitionists unsuccessfully fought a court battle to free her from her exhibitors.
Saartjie Baartman was taken to Paris in 1814 and continued to be exhibited as a freak. She became the object of scientific and medical research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. When she died in 1816, the Musee de l’Homme in Paris took a deathcast of her body, removed her skeleton and pickled her brain and genitals in jars. These were displayed in the museum until as late as 1985.
After five years of negotiating with the French authorities for the return of Saartjie Baartman’s remains, the South African government, together with the Griqua National Council which represents the country’s 200 000 Griqua people, part of the Koi-San group, brought Saartjie Baartman back to South Africa. On Friday 3 May 2002, in a moving ceremony attended by many representatives of the Khoikhoi people, Saartjie Baartman was welcomed back to Cape Town. Her final resting place is in the Eastern Cape, where she was born.
