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Friday, April 22, 2011

It's Friday but Sunday's Comin'

this video does a good job of reminding us what good friday is all about.

easter is my favorite holiday because it is less commercialized

than other holidays and has a truly significant meaning.

christmas is significant too, but without the meaning of easter, my life would be

completely different (without christmas, my life would be completely different, too,

but christmas has become about celebrating materialism and that repulses me).

anyways, this video gives me chills every time i watch it

because its all about truth.

it may be uncomfortable, but it is true.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

hope is fading

Hope is Fading – Orphan Sunday from Allan Rosenow on Vimeo.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

african american men make up 6.5% of the american population
they also make up 40.2% of the incarcerated population

sending men to jail doesn't solve the fundamental problems.
if it did, then prisoners who are released wouldn't be so likely to return.
we usedpunishment instead of dealing with root of the problem.
there are direct correlations between literacy and
drop out rates and going to jail.
poor, uneducated, black men are the most likely targets to go to jail.
incarceration takes fathers out of homes and workers
out of the community. it deteriorates families and communities.

watch

“in the face of the largest prison buildup in the history of civilization, with two million citizens in prison, and one in every three black men under judicial constraint, we start to wonder what good the thirteenth amendment is if slavery is illegal unless a person is convicted of a crime.” (152, the irresistible revolution by shane claiborne)