My duty is to stand up and speak about the injustice and lies and fight them back with love, unity and action

My duty is to stand up and speak about the injustice and lies and fight them back with love, unity and action.

Written by: Christina A. Jeter

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Now that I have educated myself on life, I choose to help others with their transitions without having them go through the same mishaps I entailed to have a peace of mind. The beauty of the world is more than what is being glamorized on television aka the media. Born into a world I seem to know little about, I try to educate myself on its history, while the more I find out daily, the more I become disgusted in humanities ways. I pray that those who are quick to be cruel to those that are different will open their eyes before Judgment Day as they are to me truly being tested.

Life is like a new business venture and this to me is a strategy of making yourself successful and how do you do that, first you create a plan and implement steps to achieve those goals of success.  Now as you put those steps into action you will see that in some areas you succeed and some you fail, instead of tossing your hands in the air and giving up, you apply the actions of success to the areas of failure to make a turnaround in your progression of life.

My Grandfather was born in an era where he had to witness and took the action of society mistreating him, he could have fail victim to the hatred being giving to him and let that stop him from becoming a success, but he didn’t! He traveled; he educated himself, created a profitable business to provide for his family.  I celebrate being black year round because my grandfather has passed down genetics that entails I WILL NEVER FAIL, I ONLY ACHIEVE SUCCESS DIFFERENTLY FROM OTHERS!

GOD had blessed me with many things and one is my education, now knowing that there are many African Americans that should be taught in school and celebrated during black history month besides Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and Fredrick Douglas. I encourage everyone to read up about Andre Cailloux (Stephen J. Ochs- A black patriot and a white priest), Felicie Coulon, Gabriel Prosser, Marie Laveau, Rose Nicaud, Francis E. Dumas and Jules Lions.

People of my past and present inspire me to make a change every day and that is what I try to do with my writing. Many things plague the world today and the majority of it is labeling, now while we all have the right to freedom of speech and our opinions, I still should know the connotation of the words I direct to an individual. I educate myself on the different lifestyles of the world and with that I may not agree with it but I respect it. My sensitivity comes from the fact that I have faced bullying and realize, “Rejection is GOD protection.”

We all want power; just watch how you achieve it and what you do with it!