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  1. Feb 2021
    1. All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America, is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?

      I take for granted the freedoms and liberties I have as a white female from the North. I can't imagine having to fight to be a first class citizen and yet so many have. The experiences she speaks of in 1964, just a few years before my birth saddens me.

  2. Sep 2020
    1. thanks to God. And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

      This occurred at a time when the enslavers were beating, raping, breaking apart families, making examples of slaves or destroying family units by selling people. A time when the black man had no rights. For Nat Turner to stand up to enslavers and kill them was pretty bold. He knew the consequence of being caught would be death. I can't imagine a time that death would be better than life or the drive for vengeance so strong that the choice of killing is made.

    1. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times so abominable in his eyes as the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours.

      To the people escaping religious persecution or for personal freedom this must have been traumatic. This sentence alone gives meaning to God fearing people.