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Read the tale of Thomas in “Fresh Start” by Terry Brown on LovelessSociety.com. I wanna thank everyone that came and all the great praise and reposts. We aren’t done. We have quite a bit to show and continue to grow. Thanks for helping us be great!

"A Snitch’s Dilemma"

By TED CONOVER, The New York Times Magazine

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A year ago today (12/16/2010), I was hit by a car while crossing the street...

I thank GOD every day for blessing me with the gift of life, good health, my family & friends & all the many wonderful miracles that have taken place. I also appreciate every trial & tribulation I've been through as they have all made me stronger & wiser.

Looking back, I had become complacent... Dreams & goals were being put on hold to obtain an hourly wage from a company (Bank Of America, Home Loans) who cared nothing about me. I was laid off 2 weeks after the accident leaving me with no medical benefits & causing a domino effect in my life that would subsequently lead to the loss of 'Everything' except my relationships with the people I love...

Even friends turned to foes but the hardest test of my faith came on April 4th when I got the call my cousin Fred was killed in a motorcycle accident... It took weeks for me to be able to say his name without breaking down. I asked GOD over & over again, "Why not me?" The day before he died he called me to inquire about a BBQ I have every year with some friends (I can still hear his voice). My cousin was my biggest fan so I decide to have a BBQ in his honor however it didn't turn out as expected. (I felt I had let my cousin down) It was at this point I had become discouraged & severely depressed.

I began to cut myself off from everyone except immediate family. I would be locked up in the house for weeks at a time brainstorming with no solutions or outcomes to my problems, just over thinking everything. I didn't want to be that guy who had excuses for everything...also refused to be that person who was miserable & needed some company. It was just me, myself alone with my thoughts. Mentally imprisoned, if not for my lil' sister Deanna, I probably would have gave up. She was a shoulder to cry on & an ear to listen. Deanna only offered suggestions or her opinion when asked opposed to telling me "what you should do is", which is what I heard from so many people. Most of all, she didn't stop believing in me...

At some point (I don't remember the day) I realized it was time for me to let go & allow GOD to work. You see I would pray day & night like a lot of Christians do, however I wasn't trusting GOD was working miracles. I'd pray for a job then stress out all day about not getting hired, pray for my finances then worry about how I was gonna pay my bills. I was missing all the many blessings I was being rewarded while stressing over the few I was praying for...

I woke up one morning & said "GOD I trust you & I give all my worries over to you. I'm letting go & allowing you to work...You are in control at this point, not I. Allow me to have a positive outlook everyday while you do your thing." It was at this point I began to see a drastic change...

I began to appreciate every gift from GOD... Gifts like my grandmother who always tells me, "One day you're gonna shine". My parents, married 33 years whom I can always depend, my sister Deanna who is always one call away. The fact I could play with my nephew for hours, without worrying about how I was gonna pay my bills or take my 15 year old dog (over 100 in human years) to the park for exercise & not care if a job called are just a few things I overlooked when I was stressing. I was missing the simple things in life that are blessings we don't cherish until there gone...(like my cousin Fred)

After a few months of hard work in combination with faith, I'm happy to say my life is going in a direction I could only imagine a year ago today. I not only got a job, I got the one I wanted. I've since mended relationships that were torn during my hard times & most of all I got back my confidence, the ability to go after All of my dreams & aspirations without worry because I know my future is in GOD's hands. I still don't have all the materialistic things I lost however I'm richer in Love, Faith, my relationships and most of all I have a better understanding of what gifts GOD gives me everyday, things I can't buy with money...

I'm writing this for my cousin Fred... Cuz, I Love & miss you so much. I still don't understand why you had to go so soon but I appreciate every moment we ever spent together. I promise to live everyday like it's my last & enjoy every second of this life GOD has blessed me with...

Fin

12/16/2011 Every Day Is A Gift From GOD

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Benjamin Mays: “The rich man who achieves a degree of greatness achieves it not because he hoards his wealth, but because he gives it away in the interest of good causes.” Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American minister, educator, scholar, social activist, and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1940 to 1967. Dr. Mays gave the benediction after Martin Luther King jr. “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC.

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Five Things You Should Know About Fred Shuttlesworth

When legendary civil rights activist Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth died today, many Americans had no idea who he was or what he’d accomplished in his 89 years on earth. It’s an unfortunate reality that people often think Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were the beginning and end of black activism in the Civil Rights era. In fact, nothing could be more wrong. From the 1950s onward, Shuttlesworth was a major factor in ending Jim Crow laws in the South, and many other oppressive forces throughout the United States. Here are the top five things you should know about him.

1. From the start of his career, Shuttlesworth, who was raised poor in Alabama, was fiery and obstinate. After Alabama officially banned the NAACP from operating within the state in 1956, Shuttlesworth, then a pastor, founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. The ACMHR’s first major order of business was a Birmingham bus sit-in, during which Shuttlesworth and others boarded city buses and sat in the “whites only” sections. The ACMHR would eventually become charter member organization in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

2. He lived nearly nine decades, but many people tried to kill Shuttlesworth much earlier for his outspokenness. He was the target of two bomb attacks, one on his home and one on his church. And when Shuttlesworth tried to enroll his daughters in an all-white Birmingham school in 1957, an armed mob attacked him, beating him unconscious and stabbing his wife. The couple survived, and when a doctor remarked that Shuttlesworth was lucky to have avoided a concussion,Shuttlesworth said, “Doctor, the Lord knew I lived in a hard town, so he gave me a hard head.”

3. Though he worked closely with King, Shuttlesworth’s style was decidedly different. “Among the youthful ‘elders’ of the movement,” historian Diane McWhorter told The New York Times, “he was Martin Luther King’s most effective and insistent foil: blunt where King was soothing, driven where King was leisurely, and most important, confrontational where King was conciliatory—meaning, critically, that he was more upsetting than King in the eyes of the white public.” Despite their differences, King once called Shuttlesworth ”the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South.”

4. Shuttlesworth’s fiercest enemy in Birmingham was infamous public safety commissioner Bull Connor. Connor’s violent responses—attack dogs, fire hoses, billy clubs—to Shuttlesworth’s peaceful demonstrations were integral in changing America’s attitude about Jim Crow. “The televised images of Connor directing handlers of police dogs to attack unarmed demonstrators and firefighters’ using hoses to knock down children had a profound effect on American citizens’ view of the civil rights struggle,” says the Shuttlesworth Foundation’s website.

5. After his actions helped spawn the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in 1964, Shuttlesworth continued fighting for justice in realms both racial and economic. In 1988 he founded the Shuttlesworth Housing Foundation to help low-income families own their own homes, and in 2004 he became president of the SCLC. A firebrand to the end, he resigned from the SCLC within months, saying “deceit, mistrust and a lack of spiritual discipline and truth have eaten at the core of this once-hallowed organization.” Three years ago, the city of Birmingham named its airport after Shuttlesworth. There are still no monuments named after Bull Connor.

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