It is the hardest thing to do. It is the thing needed most. This week let us love where it is easy and even where it is hard.
Love
affirmations
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T-Shirt of the Week
Say It Loud! This week’s shirt celebrates those 1960s and 70s where there was a surge in Black Pride. To do this right, you have to pump your fist in the air and shout.
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Art of the Month
Homage pays tribute to African American history of slavery while winking at Harlem Renaissance Artist Aaron Douglass.
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When 2020 gets out of hand, remind yourself who is really in charge.
Act
It is time to do the things that need to get done. It is time to Act. African Americans did not wait to be free, they continuously fought for it. So vote and do the work needed to make life better for all of us.
T-Shirt of the Week
Say it! Do it! Wear it! You can order it here: VOTE
Art of the Month
Homage, pays tribute to those who left their homeland by force. but they looked up.
Welcome September
In this month we will celebrate our history. Our affirmations will remind us from where we came.
Loss
There are lots of things I love about African Americans, but one of the dearests is that we grieve as a collective. 2020 has been a year of loss.
We have lost a way of life and doing things. We have lost lots of people, the last count was 183,045. We lost Kobe Bryant. We lost Chadwick Boseman. We lost heroes.
I love seeing what other people are thinking and feeling. I find comfort in their words. I love seeing other people’s stories that confirm what type of man we are mourning. That my love is not misplaced.
This morning Albert Tate, senior pastor at Made For Fellowship, said in the collective laughter and tears flow from the same place. This is a safe place for our tears. I don’t grieve this loss alone.
More so, it is the loss of another African American man. God must need them desperately. I can’t wait to hear the story of why.
I also hold onto the truth that God doesn’t take something away from you unless, he has something else for you. My people have experienced a lot, but I believe we will gain more than we have ever imagined.
The old folks used to say Are you yet holding on? (You need to ask someone black how to respond and do it;)
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