Posted on 07/01/2015 9:17:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Much of the annual 4-day event will focus on the black lives matter movement.
Civil rights leaders will join survivors of tragedy for a frank discussion on the black lives matter movement in New Orleans this week.
The 21st annual Essence Music Festival, hosted every Fourth of July weekend, will take on a more serious tone during a series of daytime events at the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. At the festival’s Empowerment Series, Rev. Al Sharpton will share a stage with Sybrina Fulton, mother of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, in conversations on injustices facing the black community.
Organized by Essence magazine, which is owned by TIME’s parent company Time Inc., the festival comes amid a renewed discussion of race relations in America, especially the relationship between the black community and police and violence against African Americans. Last week, many of the Essence festival’s featured guests were in Charleston, S.C., for the funeral of a pastor gunned down along with eight parishioners by a man allegedly driven by racial hatred....
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Should we start a FR Pool for how many #Black Lives (Don’t) Matter before it’s over?
Oh, are they finally going to oppose the abortion genocide?
Never mind the 75 percent born out of wedlock crisis.
What black-on-black crime rate?
It will turn into a Riot after the first gun shot!
ll lives matter. If you “get” that your life matters, you will act in accord with that belief. You will walk the walk. A person who thinks that his life matters will act with dignity and integrity on a consistent basis. A person whose life matters acts with self-discipline and self-control. He pursues a course of productivity and responsibility. He rarely gives in to base and destructive behavior.
A person whose life matters accepts responsibility for his circumstances, his actions and where he is in life. Responsibility goes hand in hand with power. You grant power to whom you give responsibility for your life. People whose lives matter take power over their lives by accepting responsibility for those lives.
A life that matters does not blame others. A life that matters is a life lived in appreciation and gratitude rather than resentment, hostility and ingratitude. A life that matters chooses to be productive and is committed to improving itself, its family and the world around it. The person who thinks his life matters is on a path of growth and improvement. If your life matters, you will not waste it. You will not waste your time and energy on the nonproductive or destructive, the low and the dark.
A life that matters acts with honor, dignity and respect — self-respect and respect of others. All lives matter. But all too few actually accept that their lives do matter.
Black Is Beautiful:
Black is beautiful is a cultural movement that was started in the United States of America in the 1960s by African Americans.
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This movement began in an effort to counteract the prevailing idea in American culture that features typical of “Blacks” were less attractive or desirable than those of “Whites”.
Research indicates that the idea of “blackness” being ugly is highly damaging to the psyche of African Americans, manifesting itself as internalized racism.
This idea made its way into black communities themselves and led to practices such as paper bag parties: social events which discriminated against dark-skinned African-Americans by only admitting lighter-skinned individuals.
Black lives matter.
It seems so demeaning to black people. If you want to stop perpetuating the victimization - stop killing each other and become conservative republicans. Simple.
Never mind the 75 percent born out of wedlock crisis.
Now, now. That doesn’t fit the narrative.
Ain’t it funny how the government statistics never do fit the leftist narrative.
Oh yeah, that's going to be really helpful and constructive.
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