"YOU PEOPLE"

WHEN THINKING ABOUT THIS SEASON THAT ERNA IS IN AND MASTER CJ, I AM REMINDED OF THE POINGNANT WORDS OF THE LATE MR. FRED ROGERS……..

THEY SAY AUTISTIC

THEY SAY SPECIAL NEED

THEY SAY A WHOLE LOT OF CRAZINESS BUT ALLOW ME TO TELL YOU WHAT I SAY.

I WENT TO ERNA’S CHURCH AND WHEN I WENT, CJ WAS LITERALLY ON HER HEELS.

HE BEING THE TYPICAL KID, HAD HIS CELLPHONE BUT SOMETHING I NOTICED:

WHEN ERNA NEEDED HER CANE

WHEN ERNA NEEDED HER HAND HELD TO GET UP

WHEN ERNA NEEDED HER BAG

WHEN ERNA NEEDED ANYTHING; HE JUMPED RIGHT INTO ACTION WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT WITH HIS CELLPHONE.

WE WOULD LOOK AT CHILDREN AND SWEAR UP AND DOWN THAT THEY ARE THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER WHEN THEY ARE FOR THIS GENERATION, DOING THEIR THING OF WHICH IS TECH AND THEY MASTER ITS USAGE.

HE HONORABLY SERVED ERNA, IT WAS PART OF HIS MINISTRY IT I WENT WITHOUT SECOND GUESSING

HE RESPECTFULLY SERVED ERNA, HE KNEW HE WAS PROVIDING A SERVICE SHE NEEDED AND HE MADE TIME AND IT WAS WILLFUL AND INTENTIONAL

HE PRIDEFULLY STOOD ALONG SIDE ERNA, HE SHOWED US WHAT DR. KING MEANT WHEN HE SAID,

HE MAY BE DIFFERENTLY ABLED BUT HE WEAR HIS SERVAN’TS HAT WITH RESPECT AND CAN JUGGLE MANY ROLES

HE HAS A KEEN VISION AND PERCEPTION WHEN IT CAME TO HIS GRANNY ERNA.

HE SOUGHT OUT WAYS TO RISE TO THE OCASSION AND SHOW US HOW SERVING THOSE WHO CAN’T IS DONE; TALKING ABOUT AN OPPORTUNIST

HE LEFT AN INDULLIBLE MARK ON HER LIFE AND AN IMPACT ON OURS AND WE CAN STAND TO LEARN A LOT FROM THIS CHAMPIOON HERE

HE SERVED THE UNCAGED NEVER BIRD OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT SANG US ALL HAPPY, SANG US TO SALVATION, SANG US TO WHOLENESS, SANG US TO PEACE, SANG US TO CLARITY AND SANG US TO ACCEPTANCE

HE SERVED HIS GRANNY BY WALKING WITH HER AND HE NOT ONLY TOOK AUTHORITY IN IT BUT HE WAS LIKE HER PERSONAL BODY GUARD AND HE UNDERSTOOD THIS

HE SERVED HER IN THE MANNER OUR YOUNG TODAY NO LONGER DO, HAVE BEEN EDUCATED NOT TO DO AND HAVE “PROGRESSED” TO THE POINT OF REJECTING, DENYING AND DISRESPECTING OUR ELDERS, SENIORS AND FOUNDATION BUT NOT THIS YOUNG LAD HERE……

HE SERVED HER BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THE YOUTH, TO HONOR, SERVE, RESEPECT AND CHERISH OUR ELDERS BECAUSE WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER BUT HE CAN’T TEACH HER ANYTHING BUT SHE TAUGHT HIM EVERYTHING ALONG WITH HIS MOMMY LYSH

HER SERVED HER KNOWING SHE WAS WEAK

HE SERVED HER KNOWING THAT THE ENLIGHTENED WAS BEING EDUCATED BY HIM

HE SERVED HER AND THAT’S HOW SHE WAS ELEVATED

HE SERVED HER AND SHE LEFT DROPPINGS IN HIS LIFE AS WELL AS HIS MOM’S LIFE AND WE KNOW SHE WILL GET UP AND SANG HER WAY OUT OF THIS THANG AGAIN!

HE SERVED HER WITH HIS: TIME, TALENTS, TREASURES AND HE PLANTED SEEDS, INVESTED TRUTH, AND POURED A LOT INTO ME EVERY TIME I SAW HIM GET INTO FORMATION WHEN HIS GRANNY ERNA WAS AROUND

CJ SERVICE TO HIS GRANNY ERNA IS OUR GUIDE, COMPASS AND THE WAY BACK TO WHERE WE HAVE LOST; HE IS OUR LIGHT AND LEADER

CJ HAS SHOWN US WHAT GENUINE LOVE, CARE AND RESPECT FOR PEOPLE IS ALL ABOUT

CJ NEVER LEFT ERNA, ALWAYS BEHIND, OR ON THE SIDE OF HER

CJ, I AM HOLDING THIS YOUNG LAD UP IN PRAYER TODAY,

IN MY DEATH AND DYING CLASS, I LEARNED ABOUT BIG DEATHS AND LITTLE DEATHS; THIS IS CONSIDERED A LITTLE DEATH (MARRIAGE, BIRTH, MOVING OUT OF THE HOUSE, GOING OFF TO COLLEGE, ILLNESS) IT JUST MEAN SOMETHIGN OF THE NORM IS NO MORE, AND GROWTH HAS HAPPENED OR THE UNKNOWN IS HAPPENING BUT WE KNOW IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IT CAN BE GOOD AND BAD BUT HE CAN’T EXPLAIN IT JUST AS YOU CAN’T LYSH BUT DEEP DOWN WITHIN WE FEEL SOMETHING AND WE ACT IT OUT DIFFERENTLY, FOR ME; I WRITE MINE OUT!

HOLD HIM CLOSER BECAUSE HE IS DEALING WITH THIS JUST AS YOU ARE!

LOVE YA SIS!

IN ORDER TO CATCH THE BUS, ONE MUST HAVE A SCHEDULE AND ON THE SCHEDULE IT HAS BUS NUMBERS AND ROUTES.

ERNA PICKED US UP AT GRIEF CIRCLE

ERNA DROPPED US OFF ON RETIRMENT BLV.

ERNA WAITED UNTIL WE GOT TO MATERNITY AVE.

ERNA BACKED BACK ON SENIOR WAY

ERNA, NO MATTER WHERE WE NEEDED TO GET PICKED UP OR DROPPED OFF SHE WAS THE DEVOTED DRIVER.

NO DIFFERENTLY THAN HER MINISTRY OF SINGING; NO MATTER WHERE ONE NEEDED HER TO SING, SHE SHOWED UP AND SHE DIDN’T SHOW UP FOR BIG CHURCHES BUT ANY CHURCH BECAUSE THIS WAS MINISTRY AND HER CALLING.

THIS WOMAN LOVE PEOPLE

Dominate Oratorically
Accomplish Greatness
Never doubt your ability
Intuitively be confident
Energize what’s within
Legalize your ancestral legacy
Laugh at doubters
Empower your greatness

Savor every win
Encourage yourself
Wise words win
Enlighten the Ignorant
Love your Journey
Leave a Legacy

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IT IS YOUR ORIGINALITY

IT IS YOUR SECURITY

IT IS YOUR STRENGTH

IT IS YOUR LEADERSHIP

IT IS YOUR INCLUSION

IT IS YOU WHO IS NOT A LEEACH BUT STRONG LEADER

IT IS YOUR EMPOWERMENT

IT IS YOUR RESILIENCE

IT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR CALLING, MINISTRY, DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY

IT IS YOUR INSPIRATION

IT IS YOUR PASSION

IT IS YOUR RESISTANCE OF THESE NO GOOD FOR NOTHING NEGROES

IT IS YOU BELEIVING WITH

IT IS YOUR REVOLUTIONARY MINDSET

IT IS YOUR WALK OF UNDERSTANDING THAT IMPOSSIBLE TRANSFORM WITH A SIMPLE APOSTROPHE I’M POSSIBLE

YOU GIVE US BIGGER VISION

YOU ORCHESTRATE OUR DREAMS

YOU ARE ALL IN YOUR PURPPOSE

YOU ARE MAGNETIC BECAUSE OF YOUR BEING CALLED AND TO CHOSEN TO BE IN YOUR PURPOSE

YOUR ASSIGNMENT, GIFT AND WORK HAS A PAPERTRAIL OF TRUTH, IT’S THE RECEIPTS FOR ME

YOU ARE CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO MAKE SURE YOU PASS ON THE TRUTH TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

YOU ARE INDEED SET APART AND  OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND I THANK YOU FOR WAITING ON ME TO GET TO WHERE I AM

Having had the wrong education as a start in his racial career, the negro has become his own greatest enemy. Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from negroes. Booker Washington aptly described the race in one of his lectures by stating that we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out. Yet, those of us with vision cannot desert the race, leaving it to suffer and die. Marcus Garvey

THANKS FOR NOT SETTELING

THANKS FOR UPHOLDING OUR SUPERIOR WAYS

THANKS FOR NOT SELLING YOUR SOUL

THANKS FOR UPHOLDING OUR SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE

THANKS FOR TEACHING THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN A MEDIOCRE PEOPLE

THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING THAT WE TRAINED OUR SHAWTIES

THANKS FOR BEING BLACK PRIDE

THANKS FOR HOSTING ETHNIC EDUCATION

THANKS FOR BEING AN OPEN BOOK

THANKS FOR SHOWING THE IMPORTANCE OF ETHNIC STUDIES

THANKS FOR HAVING NO TIME FOR FOOLISHNESS

THANKS FOR NOT SINGING BUT SHOWING WHAT THE BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS ALL ABOUT

THANKS FOR BEING A PROMINENT, EXCEPTIONA, SUPERIOR AND PROFICIENT ORATOR AND RESEARCH FIGURE IN OUR LIFE

@nowthisimpact

After centuries of slavery, the JimCrow era, decades of redlining, and a recent rise in anti-AAPI hate, NikkiHaley says America ‘has never been a racist country.’ Is she serious??? racism politics

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@tulablossom

#greenscreenvideo #sharingknowledge #racsim #blacktiktok #blacklivesmatter #fyp #blackhistorytiktok #blackhistory #americahasaproblem #moors #rp

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@yahzeqel

#12tribes #blackhistory #israelites #TNIC #blackgenecide

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@elizavancort

Reply to @macolmxbae #claimspace #redlining #endracism #blacktiktok #intersectionality #education #author #bestseller #solidarity #hiddentruthrevealed #fyp #fypシ #foryou #foryoupage

♬ original sound – Eliza VanCort

@dfmeares82

#navyfederal #discrimination #bank #mil #militarylife Wow and in the Army 29% are black women and 17% are black men that makes up the army (on Enlisted side), time to move my money.

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@brianredden51

♬ Hey Sexy Lady (feat. Brian & Tony Gold) – Shaggy

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@drlukewood

Remarks to St Andrews AME church in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Talking about the history of education as a site for racism against Black children. #mlk #mlkday #freedom #keepyoureyesontheprize #equity #equality

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YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP,

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU SOMEHOW KNOW HOW TO SET UP SHOP AND MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU SOMEHOW NOT HOW TO FIND OUR ZIPCODES TO SET UP SHOP.

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU SOMEHOW AREN’T AFRAID TO START BUSINESSES WITHIN OUR HOODS.

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT IT IS WITH OUR LOW WAGES, BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS, AND LABOR THAT ENRICH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT WE WERE BORN HERE AND BUILT THIS JOING AND STILL IS BUILDING IT

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU ARE HERE ILLEGALLY TALKING ALL OF THAT TRASH AND BELIEVING THE LIES WHITES PUSHED

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT SOMEHOW YOU HONOESTY BELIEVE THAT WE NEED AND ARE LOOKING FOR HANDOUTS

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU TAUNT NO MORE MONEY FOR US, O WAIT UNTIL YOU GET A WHIFF OF WHO AMERICA REALLY IS

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, WHERE IN THE HELL WOULD YOU BE

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT IT WAS OUR MARCHING, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, DIGNITY, MORALITY, INCLUSIVITY AND HUMANITY THAT ELEVATED YOU AND MADE YOU AND YO KIND VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT IT WAS US CARRYING YOU UPON OUR BACKS, NECKS AND SHOULDERS

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU BENEFITTED FROM OUR STRUGGLES

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT IT IS WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS THAT YOU AND YO KIND ARE SHELTERED, HOUSED, FED, CLOHTED AND TRANSPORTED

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT YOU THINK YOUR ABOVE US

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT WE ARE NOT THAT LAZY TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TREATING US, THEY ARE AND WILL TREAT(ING) YOU AND YOUR KIND THE SAME EXACT WAY

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT WE KNOW NOT TO GIVE OUR VOTE TO THE DEMONCRATIC PARTY ANY LONGER

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT WE ARE NO LONGER TO VOTE AGAINST OUR OWN INTEREST AND PREAMATURE DEMISE ANY LONGER

BLACKS ARE LAZY BUT THERE IS NO MORE VOTING BLUE NO MATTER WHO BECUSE IT HAS GOTTEN US ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT THIS

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@benhandelman

Ugly act at UW-Whitewater #whitewater #wisconsin #wi #uwwhitewater #warhawk #news #fox6

♬ original sound – Ben Handelman

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from ‘audio-visual aids’ – flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think – the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don’t need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don’t?

The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior.

Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

We’ve been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That’s been one of the brainwash jobs.

Kids don’t fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.

That’s how I try to think of education – a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

Everything works when the teacher works. It’s as easy as that, and as hard.

A person cannot all of a sudden become good at what they do just by switching streams.

I’m a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.

ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE FROM DR. MARVA COLLINS