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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:39:30 -0500

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Via/Follow The Beauty of Words Blog

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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:36:55 -0500

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Via/Follow The Beauty of Words Blog

Truer words have been spoken, but these are out shining the others today…

thatartista: Know it, accept it, appreciate it, spread it....

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:15:53 -0500

thatartista:

Know it, accept it, appreciate it, spread it. #LOVE

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:58:23 -0500

Feelings make the most obvious decision/reaction to a situation...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 03:45:40 -0500

Feelings make the most obvious decision/reaction to a situation the hardest thing to do.

Dealing with my feelings currently because sleeping is impossible right now…

superheru7: Marcus Garvey Marcus Garvey is one of the most...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:33:02 -0400

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey is one of the most contradictory and enigmatic figures in American history, both visionary and manipulative, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. He was a strong advocate of black self-help and unity among people of African descent, yet was willing to collaborate with the Ku Klux Klan. He inspired African Americans to support his economic enterprises with their hard-earned money, yet lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the mismanagement of those schemes.

Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind, the first comprehensive documentary to tell the life story of this controversial leader, uses a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what led to his early successes, and why he died lonely and forgotten. Among the most powerful sequences in the film are articulate, fiery interviews with the men and women whose parents joined the Garvey movement more than 80 years ago. Together they reveal how revolutionary Garvey’s ideas were to a new generation of African Americans,West Indians and Africans and how he invested hundreds of thousands of black men and women with a new-found sense of racial pride.

The film begins in 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, where Garvey was born. It covers his discovery of racism as a schoolboy and his travels through Central and South America in his 20s. The terrible exploitation of black workers Garvey witnessed on that journey angered him. He returned to Jamaica after a two year sojourn in England and Europe, determined to change black people’s place in the world. “Where is the black man’s government?” he asked. “Where is his president, his country, his men of big affairs? I could not find them.”. In August 1914 he established the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) and African Community’s League (A.C.L.). The organization’s goals were ambitious - racial unity, economic independence, educational achievement, and moral reform — but in just two years financial woes forced Garvey to move to the United States.

In the fall of 1917, a year and a half after arriving in the U.S., Garvey established the headquarters of the U.N.I.A. in Harlem where he found an eager audience among disaffected West Indian immigrants. Starting with a handful of compatriots, the Harlem chapter would become the parent body of the revamped U.N.I.A. It grew rapidly with the end of W.W.I and with dozens of chapters worldwide, it was destined to be the largest black organization in history. Key to Garvey’s ideology was black self-reliance. He established the Black Star Line, a shipping company which raised over $600,000 before collapsing in 1922, and the Negro Factories Corporation, which developed grocery stores, a restaurant, a laundry, a moving van fleet and a publishing house.

Garvey’s success in mobilizing blacks earned him the suspicion of the U.S. government. His brand of nationalism also led to bitter feuds with other black leaders, including African Americans and West Indians. The most notable of Garvey’s rivals, W.E.B. Du Bois, described him as “dictatorial, domineering, inordinately vain and very suspicious.”

In 1923, the U.S. authorities successfully prosecuted and convicted Garvey for mail fraud in connection with stock selling for the Black Star Line. Garvey served a two-year sentence and was then immediately deported. By the time of Garvey’s death in London in 1940, the U.N.I.A .was a mere shadow of what it had been. With his dreams of Pan African unity and economic independence aswell far from, he himself was considered by many to be either a laughable utopian dreamer or a flamboyant and dangerous racial nationalist.

deluxvivens: addisonblackdays: thereisterrorinthesky: Credit...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:18:34 -0400

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addisonblackdays:

thereisterrorinthesky:

Credit goes to one Jason Taylor for this post on Facebook

Internet rumors have prompted new research into the origins of the Statue of Liberty, American’s 151-foot-tall monument to freedom erected in New York Harbor in 1886.

The traditional view, as taught to American schoolchildren for the past hundred years, holds that Lady Liberty was created to commemorate the friendship forged between the United States and France during the Revolutionary War. By 1903, when the statue was inscribed with Emma Lazarus’s poetic words, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” it had come to symbolize America’s status as a safe haven for refugees and immigrants from every corner of the world.

The rumors, which have circulated in various forms and served as the direct inspiration for National Park Service anthropologist Rebecca Joseph’s decision to revisit the Statue of Liberty’s past, tell quite a different story:

A History Lesson
It is hard to believe that after my many years of schooling secondary and post) the following facts about the Statue of Liberty was never taught. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including myself have visited the Statue of Liberty over the years but yet I’m unable to find one person who knows the true history behind the Statue- amazing. Yes,amazing that so much important Black history (such as this) is hidden from us (Black and White). What makes this even worse is the fact that the current twist on history perpetuates and promotes white supremacy at the expense of Black Pride.

During my visit to France I saw the original Statue of Liberty. However there was a difference, the statue in France is Black. The Statue of Liberty was originally a Black woman, but, as memory serves, it was because the model was Black.

In a book called “The Journey of The Songhai People”, according to Dr. Jim Haskins, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee of the Liberty-Ellis Island Committee,professor of English at the University of Florida, and prolific Black author, points out that what stimulated the original idea for that 151 foot statue in the harbor.

He says that what stimulated the idea for the creation of the statue initially was the part that Black soldiers played in the ending of Black African Bondage in the United States. It was created in the mind of the French historian Edourd de Laboulaye, chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society, who, together with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi,proposed to the French government that the people of France present to the people of the United States through the American Abolitionist Society, the gift of a Statue of Liberty in recognition of the fact that Black soldiers won the Civil War in the United States.

It was widely known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal role in winning the war, and this gift would be a tribute to their prowess. Suzanne Nakasian, director of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Foundations’ National Ethnic Campaign said that the Black Americans’ direct connection to Lady Liberty is unknown to the majority of Americans,BLACK or WHITE.

When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884, it is said that he remonstrated that the dominant view of the broken hackles would be offensive to a U.S. South, because since the statue was a reminder of Blacks winning their freedom. It was a reminder to a beaten South of the ones who caused their defeat, their despised former captives.

Documents of Proof:

1.) You may go and see the original model of the Statue of Liberty, with the broken chains at her feet and in her left hand. Go to the Museum of the City of NY, Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street write to Peter Simmons and he can send you some documentation.

2.) Check with the N.Y. Times magazine, part II_May 18, 1986. Read the article by Laboulaye.

3.) The dark original face of the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the N.Y. Post, June 17, 1986, also the Post stated the reason for the broken chains at her feet.

4.) Finally, you may check with the French Mission or the French Embassy at the U.N. or in Washington, D.C. and ask for some original French material on the Statue of Liberty, including the Bartholdi original model.

You can call in September (202) 944-6060 or 6400. Please pass this information along!

Oh my god! Im not American but this shocks me. How can this not be known? & why does it not have many reblogs?

huh. i knew that the original was supposed to be a black woman but i had never seen a version of it.

We must continue to educate ourselves…

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Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:27:44 -0400

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So much to say, but can’t find the words. Dwelling only makes it worse…stepping back...

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:24:54 -0400

So much to say, but can’t find the words. Dwelling only makes it worse…stepping back because I know it will all be alright.

So true…you will only continue to think about them and ask...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:51:10 -0400

So true…you will only continue to think about them and ask why. Continue to fight, move forward and be optimistic at it. Giving up is too easy…

Things to remember…

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:46:45 -0400

Things to remember…

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Sat, 19 May 2012 09:28:48 -0400

Something to remember at those times when we want to reach back...

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:16:39 -0400

Something to remember at those times when we want to reach back into the past and dwell in the shouldas, wouldas and couldas. We have now and that is all we can work with. So try new things, move forward and never be afraid to step in unknown directions…

Inspiration…motivation…dedication the three things I...

Mon, 14 May 2012 01:51:24 -0400

Inspiration…motivation…dedication the three things I need in order to.bring the things on this board to life…see the vision, make it real.

After being away since last Wednesday and eating absolutely whatever I want, I have taken a picture of my weight loss board and made it my screen display…time to see 150 on the scale!

“I may be just a foolish dreamer, but I don’t care...

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:12:00 -0400

“I may be just a foolish dreamer, but I don’t care cause I know my happiness is waiting somewhere…” Zoom-The Commodores

My dreams are lively and always in color.

I am a dreamer…all day, everyday. I dream about my life’s passion & purpose, love, success, happiness and the list goes on. I see all these things evolving in my dreams and then awake to plan out how I should or sometimes, should not, move forward on it. Here lately my dreams have been surrounded more and more with love and the vision of a special someone. Happy moments, loving moments, future moments and so much more. Are my dreams telling me that love is finally here for me? Real, true, genuine lasting love? I do not know, but I am loving the love that appears in my dreams and how I am seeing it manifest in my life.

Keep dreaming…believing and doing the work to bring your hopes and dreams to life. It is not enough to just dream…

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:50:00 -0400

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life. -Kahlil Gibran”

- http://www.peaceloveandprettythings.com Friday Love Note-4/27/2012

Image found at http://pinterest.com/rellasbellas/inspiration/ on...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:45:05 -0400

Image found at http://pinterest.com/rellasbellas/inspiration/ on Pinterest.

Today I completed my last full semester before I begin student teaching and I am so thankful. This year has been full of ups and downs…more downs than ups, but despite it all I can say that I did well in both of my classes and overcame the stress and difficult days that I faced over the past few months.

All I can say is THANK YOU…Thank you to God for allowing me to see through the tears and see the joy, relief and blessing in my hardship & thanks to my family and friends for being shoulders to cry on, ears to scream, cuss and talk in and always providing inspirational and reassuring words. Also must give myself a pat on the back for not allowing the ill will of others to affect my overall goals and completion of the program. It is not over, but I know that my ability to persevere and overcome the obstacles that I faced this semester, made me stronger and prepared me for what is next to come…

Des’ree - You Gotta Be (by tGENStakeUK) A song I am loving...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:28:32 -0400

Des’ree - You Gotta Be (by tGENStakeUK)

A song I am loving today…always been a favorite. Enjoy your day!

Go through each day with grace and always do your best to be the...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:05:02 -0400

Go through each day with grace and always do your best to be the best you that you can be. The day may be stormy and life sometimes throws curve balls, but always remember that it can and will get better…got to believe.

Just when you think love has been lost...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:32:00 -0400

A second chance appears…