A New Thing
A New Thing Isaiah 43: 18-19 (((Prayer))) (((Song)))
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” It is about time that we taught our own Black children that there is more to our history than our ancestral enslavement. I’m talking about a New Thing.
1 Our black children today are shocked to hear that Henry Ford bought the concept plans for the first automobile from a Black man.
2 They’re just as shocked to hear that Blacks are credited with inventing the mousetrap, the umbrella, and the ironing board.
3 They swell with pride when they hear that a Black man performed the first open heart surgery.
4 And, I love to watch their amazement when they find out that highly developed Black empires existed in many parts of Africa, hundreds and even thousands of years ago, way before the onslaught of slavery exploitation in the late 1500’s.
True, it is very important for us to know something about our history. Our history helps to define who we are as a people. History has its purpose in life, but it also has its place. Our forward momentum as a people can become slowed and even stagnant if we dwell too much on past accomplishments. It’s good to reflect on the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Jesse Jackson, but only if they motivate and inspire us to keep pressing on. Dwelling too much in the past can create opinions to the present. It would seem today that we are so busy rejoicing over our past gains in Civil Rights that we have forgotten about how far we still have to go as a people. Something needs to stir the waters of complacency that overshadow our obviously still existing inequality. Because statistics show that…………
4 It’s wonderful to teach racial tolerance as part of our elementary school curriculum, but we need to teach it to the Real Estate Broker,...
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