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Thanx for stopping by and making it a memorable experience for all.
I've just launched my new internet talk radio show in real time. Being
a Tubman has not been easy...I have been campaigning for the Harriet
Tubman National Holiday... the first suggested Global Holiday for Women
MARCH 10th Is Harriet Tubman Day.....the subject of Self Help is broad
but significant...As the author of my self published "Survival For the
Twenty First Century"...is just one contribution in the
disaster-preparedness
Each week I will attempt to connect
humanity to a greater purpose for living. I'll be there, so you be
there...relax, while you'll listen to some of our nations current
activists, humanitarians, emerging leaders,wellness specialists, and
let's not forget our veterans.
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| | Posted: 8/27/2008 at 22:57 | Read 197 times | 0 comments | Leave Comment |
| SHE WAS A HELL OF A WOMAN...... | | She was a hell of a woman... |
2/12/2008 2:47:59 AM |
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She
show the fortitude for country, family and selflessness that has left
the children of today and I would like to thank her for her courage in
alowing us to enjoy the freedoms that we now enjoy..thank you also for
you controbutions..
Jackie
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta
Ross, c. 1820 – 10 March 1913) was an African-American abolitionist,
humanitarian, and Union spy during the U.S. Civil War. After escaping
from captivity, she made thirteen missions to rescue over three hundred
slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known
as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men
for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for
women's suffrage.
Born into slavery in Dorchester County,
Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various owners as a
child. Early in her life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an
irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight at her, intending to hit
another slave. The injury caused disabling seizures, headaches, and
powerful visionary and dream activity, and spells of hypersomnia which
occurred throughout her entire life. A devout Christian, she ascribed
her visions and vivid dreams to premonitions from God.
In 1849,
Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland
to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought
relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of
other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy,
Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". Heavy
rewards were offered for many of the people she helped bring away, but
no one ever knew it was Harriet Tubman who was helping them. When a
far-reaching United States Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850, she
helped guide fugitives further north into Canada, and helped
newly-freed slaves find work.
When the American Civil War began,
Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then
as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition
in the war, she guided the raid on the Combahee River, which liberated
more than seven hundred slaves. After the war, she retired to the
family home in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents.
She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook
her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African-Americans
she had helped open years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became
an icon of American courage and freedom. |
| | Posted: 2/27/2008 at 06:56 | Read 210 times | 3 comments | Leave Comment |
| I'm Tired of this War..Another woman veteran raped... | There is a hole in the soul of America concerning this war. The presidential candidates are not even talking about a plan to the end this senseless war. Notice that the news doesn't even cover the casualty count anymore? And women veterans are really suffering.
Let me share with you a brief encounter i had on the plane,on my way to a conference in Florida. A distraught looking young woman,muttered to me as she passed me on the moving walkway," that she was going on emergency leave, because she was in the armed forces, and was just raped on the military base."
Regardless of what precipitated this event in her life, woman who serve this country should be given some special consideration and provisions other than separate baracks.
Over the years,I've had other male vets challenge me on this.They argue that women don't belong in the military.They weren't physically designed to withstand the the stresses of combat.They are delicate creatures whose role is to nurture and support men. And on a base or in combat, they are nothing more than distractions for men.
That if they can voluntarily enlist, then when/if the draft is resumed, they should be drafted too?Some of them act like men.
Sometimes the discussion would turn to women who become police officers.Very similar rationales were offered here too.
My summarized thoughts on this subject are:
SERVE~~SUFFER~~EQUAL!!!
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