Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children...To be Responsible Adults

Part of being a responsible adult is casting your vote. Be an example to your children(future adults), by voting and by allowing them to see or discuss your vote. Do your research and don't be fooled by the mainstream. Too many people before us made too many scarfices for us to not vote. There was a time when we were not allowed or even acknowledged as human beings to vote. Let's not go backwards. Cast your vote and be counted. A right we shouldn't take for granted.

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Vote -- And A Few Reasons Why You Need To!

• 13th Amendment Abolished slavery --- Abolish means To get rid of
• 14th Amendment All people born in the US are citizens with equal rights
• 15th Amendment Right to vote for all male citizens
• Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan 13th Amendment, South never really left the union, forgiveness
• Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan Similar to Lincoln's plan offering forgiveness but also gave amnesty to Confederate Leaders
• Reconstruction Historical period marked by military occupation, Constitutional changes and Presidential Impeachment
• Radical Republicans Congressmen who wanted full equality for freedmen and disagreed with President Johnson's Plan
• Poll tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause Voting barriers for African Americans, limited the effectiveness of the 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws Created segregation in the South
• Reconstruction Amendments Attempted to provide political and legal rights for Freedmen and created a Constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Movement
• Sharecropping A form of Agriculture that limited the freedom of African Americans by keeping them on the plantation and dependent on their former masters
• End of Reconstruction Due to the Election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1877 the Federal troops were removed from the south
• Black Codes Regulations that limited the freedom of African Americans
• Freedmen Formerly enslaved persons (African Americans) after the Civil War
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) provided for legal segration based on race if "separate but equal" facilities were available
• Booker T Washington African American leader who advocated vocational training as way of economic opportunity and gradual equality for African Americans
• W.E.B. DuBois African Americans should achieve immediate equality by obtaining college education and challenging segregation in court
• NAACP Organization created by WEB DuBois to provide lawyers for African Americans whose civil rights were violated
• Tuskegee Institute Vocation training school created by Booker T Washington in order to improve the economic standing of African Americans
• Great Migration Period from 1900-1930 where African Americans left sharecropping in the south to obtain factory jobs in northern urban areas
• Little Rock 9 1st group of black students who were able to attend an all-white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
• Desegregation of Armed Forces Executive order by President Harry Truman to integrate the Armed Forces after WWII
• Montgomery Bus Boycott Official beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. becomes a national celebrity
• Civil Disobedience Based on writings of Saint Augustine and actions of Gandhi, citizens used non-violence to peacefully break unjust laws
• Sit Ins -- An example of civil disobedience used to force the desegregation of lunch counters
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision, declaring that "separate but equal is inherently unequal" and legally ended segregation
• Civil Rights Act (1964) Passed after Martin Luther King's March on Washington it made it a crime to discriminate based on race or gender
• Voting Rights Act (1965) Made it a crime to create barriers or restrictions to voting
• Freedom Rides and Selma Montgomery March Peaceful actions used to end barriers of African American voting rights

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children….Your Perception is Your Reality

A well-known saying goes “you are what you eat” the same goes for ”you are what you think you are”. Your perception can indeed be your reality. So if you have desires that are bigger than the norm for you, your family, and those around you. By all means, do you and be you, by thinking outside that invisible box that many will try and place you in. We are children of God. We can’t allow ourselves to think we are less than what He made us to be. We are wonderfully and beautifully made and greater is He that lives in us, then he that lives in this world. Don’t allow anyone to plant seeds of discouragement or limits in your lives or your children's lives. Allow yourselves as well as your children to dream bigger than you can dream and encourage them to dream bigger than they can dream for themselves. Nurture those natural talents and see God manifest something that you never even thought could become possible. See much farther than your natural eyes can see. Live, love, and nurture more than you thought humanly possible and see God move all obstacles on your behalf. It’s always been mind over matter, and that’s what’s so wonderful about having faith in God. It’s also what’s so wonderful about His grace, His mercy and His favor. When we utilize faith. We can do anything. God has no limits, and we should not limit ourselves because of who we are in Him. The bible says,” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” It also says,” I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” So start utilizing that faith you claim and see God make your perceptions your reality.

Be blessed and encouraged today, it’s your choice. ~Delphine

Ephesians 3:20 -- Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Philippians 4:13 -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Hebrews 11:1 -- Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children To.....Seek God's Guidance.

Psalm 32:8 reads, "I will make you wise and show you where to go. I will guide you and watch over you."

This scripture says it loud and clear, seeking God's guidance will allow us to make wise decisions.

Be blessed and encouraged today, it's your choice. ~Delphine

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