"I Heard That": Blacks and Prop 8; Remembering JonestownRochelle Metcalfebyline‚ Nov. 19‚ 2008“TELL ME HOW DID YOU FEEL WHEN YOU COME OUT OF THE WILDERNESS?” The title of an old hymn that has been sung time and time again by many church going African Americans! Reminded of the song when reading Parson D.A. Smith’s column featured in The SOUTHWEST DIGEST Newspaper, based in Lubbock, TX., and one of the oldest Black newspapers in the country. His message referred to waking up the day after the Election and change in the leadership of America! Black Americans FEEL GOOD, stand with PRIDE over the historic fact a Black man has been voted to be the 41st President! Soon President-Elect BARACK OBAMA and his family will occupy the WHITE HOUSE built by slaves! Oh, we’ve come a mighty long way from slavery! FREE AT LAST when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, BUT NOT free; racism’s ugly head broke our backs! NO GROUP has suffered the BLACK EXPERIENCE as second class citizens - actually not considered human beings! BLACK MEN beaten, hung from a tree for all to see, not able to stand up as a MAN to protect his family!!! Oh, YOU KNOW THE HISTORY!!! |