Lion Heart

[youngcheem]

Random thought: I see a lot of people getting cars, but it’s cool, imma be patient and wait for my testimony. Let go and let God right?

[youngcheem]

Let go and let God.

[youngcheem]

Love & Prayers

[youngcheem]

It is inherent in personality to be able to know other personalities, but full knowledge of one personality by another cannot be achieved in one encounter. It is only after long and loving mental intercourse that the full possibilities of both can be explored.

A.W. Tozer

[youngcheem]

The joke is now that black dads don't stick around, well I guess I'm just not black enough..

Beleaf

[thoughts-memories]

[chinadigitaltimes]

Memory is dangerous in a country that was built to function on national amnesia.

Louisa Lim, The People’s Republic of Amnesia (via chinadigitaltimes)

[youngcheem]

Breaking boundaries and crossing borders

[youngcheem]

I'm clumsy, I fumble, I'm not too good with money, I got a temper but I temper it with jokes and being funny..

Eshon

[youngcheem]

Activity [suggests] a life filled with purpose.

Von Trapp

[youngcheem]

Marriage should be enjoyed not endured.

Uncle Joe

[youngcheem]

Everyday we change the world but to change the world in a way that means anything, that takes more time than most people have, [it never happens all at once.]

Elliot

[youngcheem]

Parade - Joseph Sheppard

[three-hunna]

[blueklectic]

Never forget

[livelaughloveatrandom-deactivat]

NEVER!

[bishopsmind]

All his white hatred came out at once. 500 years of oppression unleashed

[youngcheem]

"As Christians, we need to be known more for what we're about than what we're against."

Jonathan Woodlief

[youngcheem]

I dnt care what anyone says this joint goes 😂

[jspark3000]

You don’t owe anyone an explanation. You’re not required to defend your passion. But you owe it to yourself to know what you’re really about.

J.S. (via jspark3000)

[sandandglass]

Jon Stewart on the Charleston shooting:

I didn’t do my job today. I’ve got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds because of what happened in South Carolina. And maybe if I wasn’t nearing the end of the run or this wasn’t such a common occurrence, maybe I could have pulled out of the spiral. But I didn’t.

I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though, that by acknowledging it – by staring into that and seeing it for what it is…We still won’t do jack shit. Yeah, that’s us. And that’s the part that blows my mind.

I don’t want to get into the political argument of guns and things. What blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves…

If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism, it would fit into our [narrative]. We invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and [lost] thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over like five or six different counties, all to keep Americans safe. We’ve got to do whatever we can – we’ll torture people. We’ve got to do whatever we can to keep Americans safe. But nine people shot in a church, what about that? “Hey, what are you going go to do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?”

That’s the part that I cannot, for the life of me, wrap my head around. And you know it’s gonna go down the same path. “This is a terrible tragedy.” They are already using the nuanced language of lack of effort for this.

This is a terrorist attack. This is a violent attack on the Emanuel Church in South Carolina which is a symbol for the black community. It has stood in that part of Charleston for a hundred and some years and has been attacked viciously many times – as many black churches have. And to pretend that – I heard someone on the news say – “tragedy has visited this church”. This wasn’t a tornado. This was a racist. This was a guy with a Rhodesia badge on his sweater. So the idea that – I hate to even use this pun – but this one is black and white. There’s no nuance here. And we’re gonna keep pretending like, “I don’t get it, what happened. This one guy lost his mind.”

But we are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it. And I cannot believe how hard people are working to discount it. In South Carolina, the roads that people drive on are named for Confederate generals who fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on that road. That’s insanity. That’s racial wallpaper. You can’t allow that.

Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them – who wanted to start some kind of civil war. The Confederate flag flies over South Carolina and the roads are named for Confederate generals. And the white guy is the one who feels his country’s being taken away from him. We’re bringing it on ourselves.

And that’s the thing – Al Qaeda, all those guys, ISIS – they’re not shit compared to the damage that we can apparently do to ourselves on a regular basis.