Greetings,
In the middle of preparing my message for the week, I became somewhat compelled to do a little research on the activities that took place on the celebration of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King. Unfortunately, the one thing I expected to take place did. As I have tried to explain to many people, the social issues of today, have no comparison to the Civil Rights issues of the 60s.
Sexual orientation, the right to marry, and this belief that police are out to kill black people, is not the same, nor accurate. If you aren't paying attention to the crumbling society in which we live, you need a wake up call and quick. Every society requires order, the moment you remove it, to allow for feel good economics and a fair share community; initiative and self responsibility are out the window.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/thousand-across-us-march-to-remember-king/2015/01/19/520b5870-a01c-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html?tid=HP_national?tid=HP_national
If you desire to see someone or a group of people who went through a time of trouble, take a look at the background of Maggie Walker, http://www.nps.gov/mawa/index.htm. Consider her struggle. She and people of her day were stopped from progress. Just because you are hanging on a corner and the police stop you at 2 AM, it is not always because you are black. Or, if you know that police consider a particular area a high crime area, and you feel the need to go there, what progress are they stopping you from?
The biggest question I ask everyone, if you are the smartest person in your group of friends, it's time to move on. Ask yourself (I did), did you not fulfill your goals, complete high school, college, or obtain a career because of your skin color? Is God part of your life, have you considered how your life has been going without Him?
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