In 1944 Fannie Lou Townsend became Fannie Lou Hamer when she married Perry "Pap" Hamer. The couple were looking forward to having children. But no matter how many times they enjoyed sexual intercourse no children were created.
That's because unknown to Fannie and Pap a Mississippi doctor sterilized Fannie without her consent. Fannie was the youngest of Jim Townsend's and Lou Ella Townsend's 20 children. The Mississippi doctor thought that he could help reduce the black population by sterilizing women like Fannie.
Involuntary sterilization happens in America and globally. According to Financial Times, the Chinese Health Ministry reported that since 1971, 196 million sterilizations and 336 abortions have been performed in China. Many of these are involuntary.
Chen Guangcheng is the husband of Yuan Weijing and the father of a girl and a boy. He became internationally known for filing a 2005 law suit against a local government for forced abortions and forced sterilizations practiced as part of China’s one-child policy.
Guangcheng's lawsuit was rejected, and he was placed under house arrest in Shandong, China, with guards surrounding his house, his cell phone service cut off, access to the Internet blocked and bright lights shinning on his house at night.
Tejas is the name the Spanish gave to the area that became the US state of Texas. The Spanish chose the name based on a Native American word for "friend."
Guangcheng, who became blind as a result of a childhood illness and now wears dark sunglasses, had friends help him to escape from house arrest in April 2012 and to enter the US embassy in Beijing. A deal was worked out between China and the United States; now Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer who also helped the disabled win public benefits and aided farmers fighting illegal land seizures, lives in New York with his wife, Yuan Weijing, and their two children.
On April 9, 2013, he testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee On Foreign Affairs about his family's and other people's persecution in China and other ongoing human rights abuses in China. Guangcheng gave Congress a list of 130,000 Chinese officials involved in forced abortions and forced sterilizations.
As a young person Fannie Lou worshiped at the Stranger's Home Baptist Church and became a creyente (believer) in God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Ghost.
"If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up," says Fred Korematsu regarding the forced detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Fannie Lou Hamer became a civil rights activist fighting for the rights of black people to vote without barriers like literacy tests and poll taxes and to have representation in political parties. In 1964 Fannie Lou and several black and white members of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to help African Americans gain greater representation in Mississippi politics. The regular Mississippi Democratic Party, known as the Regulars, did not admit black members. The MFDP changed its name to the Mississippi Loyalist Democratic Party. After a couple of tries, in 1968 all of the party's delegates were seated at the Democratic National Convention.
The free speech we enjoy in America does not exist in China. Guangcheng's house arrest in Shandong, China, meant that he could not leave his house and people couldn't come to him. During this time Actor Christian Bale tried to visit the activist to publicize his plight, but was prohibited by plain clothes Chinese security. Bale told CNN, "What I really wanted to do was shake the man's hand and tell him what an inspiration he is."
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times with others attempted to visit Guangcheng when he was under house arrest. Jacobs was met by a man who swatted at his car with a broom and called for back up who detained Jacobs. The security back up took the reporters' camera and deleted their images. When Jacobs was driving out of town, he was followed by a car with the license plate covered over by paper.
Those doing dark deeds do not want the light shined on them.
The Chinese government has authorized mass killing of babies in China. When Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, Israel, more than 2,000 years ago Herod authorized mass killing of all baby boys in Bethlehem. Great good is in China for the government to be so aggressively killing people.
Romans 12:21 Complete Jewish Bible says, "Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good."
Instead of bitterness over her involuntary sterilization, in addition to her civil rights' work Fannie Lou Hamer and Pap Hamer adopted four children.
Instead of bitterness over being in prison for his Christian faith and Christian works Pastor and U.S. Citizen Saeed Abedini has chosen forgiveness and perseverance. He was setting up an orphanage and Christian house churches in Iran when Iranian authorities put him under house arrest in July 2012 separating him from his wife, Naghmeh Abedini, and their two children, who live in the US state of Idaho. In September 2012 they arrested him. In January 2013 Iranian authorities sentenced him to an eight year prison sentence for threatening Iran's national security. The U.S. State Department, Secretary of State John Kerry and the European Union have all called for Pastor Saeed Abedini's release, and over 570,000 people worldwide from over 180 countries have signed a petition lending him support. A campaign to write letters to him for his May 7th birthday is being coordinated at http://www.savesaeed.org.
Instead of bitterness over his jail time, house arrest and persecution of family and friends, Chen Guangcheng is continuing to fight against forced abortions and forced sterilizations in China and a lack of human rights and civil rights in China.
A Malagasy African proverb says, "Let not your love be like a torrent: heavy at first but swiftly abating."
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