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"We just wanna be treated as equals, we're all the same if you disregard skin color!"
"We'll take a month celebrating how we're unique"
bump..this thread should be stickied.
"We just wanna be treated as equals, we're all the same if you disregard skin color!"
"We'll take a month celebrating how we're unique"
Black Jesus tbh...
black history month is the shortest month of the year
God with the goods.
Crispus Attucks, the first man to die for America and our freedom from British rule during the Boston Massacre.
"Honor to Crispus Attucks, who was leader and voice that day;
The first to defy, and the first to die, with Maverick, Carr, and Gray.
Call it riot or revolution, his hand first clenched at the crown:
His feet were the first in perilous place to pull the King's flag down:
His breast was the first one rent apart that liberty's stream might flow;
For our freedom now and forever, his head was the first laid low.
Call it riot or revolution, or mob or crowd, as you may,
such deaths have been seed of nations, such lives shall be honored for aye." -John Boyle O'Reilly
Crispus Attucks, one of my favorite black names.
Also Boaz Negro, the blind cobbler from the short story, Footfalls.
I also like Willie T Ribbs, the racecar driver
And Tchaka Shipp, the legendeary high school hoopster. I like his because it sounds like the name of a cookie.
Edit: I was looking for pics and when I looked up Boaz Negro, I found that he was Portugese in the story. I guess it's been a long time since I read that. I wonder why his name wasn't Boaz Cafe.
Last edited by cantthinkofanything; 02-17-2012 at 04:31 PM.
lol ya you're right, does sounds like a name of a cookie.
Absalom Jones, first African American to be ordained as a priest for the Episcopal Church. Also during the the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Phildelphia, which killed about 5,000 whilst tens of thousands fled (including George Washington) the state, he stayed behind to care for the sick and dead.
Why pick on Washington?Absalom Jones, first African American to be ordained as a priest for the Episcopal Church. Also during the the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Phildelphia, which killed about 5,000 whilst tens of thousands fled (including George Washington) the state, he stayed behind to care for the sick and dead.
Yellow Fever Attacks Philadelphia, 1793
5,000.... 2,000... I wonder what the correct number is?Unaware of the link between the mosquito and the disease's progress, Philadelphia's medical community was dumbfounded. Dr. Benjamin Rush, the city's leading physician and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, advised citizens to flee the city. He worked tirelessly to comfort and save the the hapless victims, but with little success. A good portion of the population, along with members of Congress, President Washington and his Cabinet, abandoned the city. The disease subsided and finally disappeared with the arrival of cold weather in November. It is estimated that 2,000 died.
Did you know he was also a Grand Master Mason?Absalom Jones, first African American to be ordained as a priest for the Episcopal Church. Also during the the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic in Phildelphia, which killed about 5,000 whilst tens of thousands fled (including George Washington) the state, he stayed behind to care for the sick and dead.
Absalom Jones
Personal Information
Born on November 6, 1746, in Sussex, DE; died on February 13, 1818, Philadelphia, PA; married Mary King, 1770
Religion: African Episcopal.
Memberships: Grand Master of the Black Masonic lodge of Philadelphia.
Career
Sussex, DE, and Philadelphia, PA, slave; manumitted October 1, 1784; Methodist lay preacher, licensed, 1786; Free African Society, co-founder, 1787; African Church of St. Thomas, co-founder, 1794; Episcopal church, ordained deacon, 1795; Episcopal church, priest, 1804.
My number comes from academics, yours came from a homemade website that uses a rudimentary form of HTML.
Do you have a problem with Masons?
props to creepn
This paul mooney standup was funny as hayle
Not at all. Just remember that when such threads pop up again. Too many here dis' them.
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