by La Shawn on February 4, 2004
in Lunacy
The people-hating animal lovers over at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) just crossed the line this time! They’re asking blacks to support an advertising campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Self-appointed “black leaders” with nothing better to do than associate themselves with this are Kweisi Mfume (who?), Cornel West (a Princeton professor), Russell Simmons (a rap music person) and Richard Pryor (?).
I think I’ve finally heard everything.
Now I have to be careful because I can get in a lot of trouble with this one. It has less to do with black people and fried chicken, and more to do with black people and radical groups like PETA. Blacks typically don’t support radical feminists, environmentalists and groups like PETA. Which is why they’ve dragged out so-called black leaders.
It’s strange. Blacks give all those votes to pro-child killing candidates, but they suddenly become independent-minded when it comes to extreme causes from groups like PETA. In my opinion, blacks who eat at KFC couldn’t care less how the chickens are treated as long as the birds are cooked right! I’ll move on.
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by La Shawn on February 2, 2004
in Faith
I stumbled across this article today, “Contentment as a Christian Single.” The article was written in 1999, so the writer may be married by now. She offers good advice for us single Christians:
To find contentment as Christian singles we must assess and identify the state of our singleness (i.e., voluntary, involuntary, or chosen). If we are an involuntary single we may attempt to make ourselves a voluntary one because we do not want to face the hurt, grief, or the reality of our singleness. Instead, we convince ourselves that it’s okay to be single when deep down within we are broken and wounded as a result of someone leaving us because of death or divorce.
If you have chosen to be a voluntary single, do not look at your surroundings — look within. Assess the state of your heart, soul, and mind to honestly determine if you are truly ready to receive the mate God may have in store for you. Often times, we become discontent because we are attempting to define our being through the eyes of man and society.
Of course this is all easier to say than it is to do, just like everything else.
I suspect that most of my readers are married, so it may have been awhile since you faced the singleness issue. While I’ve not chosen to be a voluntary single, I suppose that’s what I am. Most of the men people try to fix me up with are either liberal Christians or conservative unbelievers, neither of which I want to deal with.
Why am I writing about this? I’ve just been doing a lot of thinking about it lately. Believe me, it’s not a call for, “Hey La Shawn, I’ve got this friend…”
The writer closes with this:
with us solely and completely to equip us for our divine calling as a Christian single. God needs to know how committed we are to Him not just in our deeds, but in our heart, soul, and mind. Once we are totally satisfied in God, He will know that we will be ready and satisfied with the mate that He sends us!
Very uplifting. Check out this prayer, “Sowing Seeds of Prayer into Singles for Contentment, Service, Purity and Revival.”Also good advice. What are your thoughts?
As a black person who abhors race preferences, I’m unusual. Yes, I benefited from “affirmative action”, but I still hate it.
So I’m surfing the web looking for something interesting to blog about, and I run into this: “Blacks, whites split by drive to ban affirmative action.”
I knew it was too early to deal with “affirmative action” after I read this black woman’s quote:
“As a black woman, I know I’m not going to be viewed the same way as a white man is as far as being capable,” she said with a stern expression on her face, her eyes watering. “Affirmative action protects against that kind of thinking.”
Now maybe it’s just me, but I’d be embarrassed to give a quote like this to a national publication. She really believes that under race preferences, she’s protected against being viewed as inferior? Illogical. Jim Crow all over again. Separate but unequal.
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While the country watches the Super Bowl, I sit here on a Sunday evening confused and saddened by the state of education in America.
A 22 year-old Rhodes Scholar nominee with impressive credentials was turned down for a teaching job in Atlanta because he would “serve as an unrealistic expectation as to what high school students could strive to achieve or become”, wrote the principal.
Taking the story at face value would lead you to believe the principal is crazy. Read it skeptically and you could conclude that Marquis Harris left out important details. Is it true? Was it something in particular about Harris that the interviewers didn’t like and this was just an excuse?
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