At the time when the Revolutionary War was being fought free African Americans did not have the same rights as other Americans because laws discriminated against persons of African heritage. Nevertheless, as a African American teenager James Forten joined an American ship called the Royal Lewis to help Americans win the Revolutionary War against the British. In a battle the Royal Lewis was surrounded by three British ships, so the American crew surrendered. Forten was at risk of becoming a slave as British sailors sometimes sold prisoners of African heritage into slavery.
One day Forten and other boy prisoners of war were playing a game of marbles. The British captain's son joined the game, and he and Forten became friends. Forten wasn't sold as a slave.
Later Forten married and had nine children. He also became one of Philadelphia's wealthiest people and a freedom fighter against slavery and for women's right to vote. Read more about James Forten, his family and his legacy in my article "Big is Beautiful" http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/big-is-beautiful.html.
James 1:2-4 New Living Translation Bible says, "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing." God is not asking us to consider evil joy, but He is asking us to be developed for good to overcome evil. Forten's experience as a prisoner of war was an experience used to turn him into a warrior for freedom. Elaine Riddick experienced evil and used the experience to become a fighter for life. Desmond Tutu lived during apartheid in South Africa. He also lived to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where many victims and perpetrators of apartheid discussed the deeds done during apartheid, so that they might be known and never done again.
T.D. Jakes writes in his book T.D. Jakes Speaks on Power, "Why are the anointed persecuted? Anointed people are free people. The Word of God says that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (2 Cor. 3:17). Wicked leadership and stubborn, sedate people who have taken counsel against the Lord, do not like free people, because free people can't be controlled."
Wicked people consider anointed people unfit to live. Elaine Riddick was sterilized by people who practiced eugenics. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJNX5bHYVI. Eugenics is a "science" developed by Francis Galton, a cousin of Evolutionist Charles Darwin, that advocates for the reproduction of certain people and for the elimination of other people, usually the disabled, low-income and those who are not of certain European heritage. A brochure of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation describes eugenics as, "The concept or term eugenics refers to the intentional and selective breeding of humans and animals to rid the population of characteristics deemed unfit by those administering this practice. In the U.S., eugenics was carried out by individuals, nonprofit organizations and state governments that felt that human reproduction should be controlled."
While people across America became victims of state-sponsored sterilization, only North Carolina is financially compensating victims. If you have family and friends in North Carolina, please let them know about state financial compensation to victims of sterilization. Ten million is to be split equally. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015. North Carolina had a eugenics board from the 1930s through the 1970s through which social workers, family and others arranged for people to be sterilized. If you think you are one of the victims, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/FirstPartyVerificationform.pdf. If you are not a victim, but are related to a victim, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form with required attachments: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/ThirdPartyVerificationform.pdf. These forms are verification and not a guarantee of compensation.
Eugenics does not only involve sterilization, it also involves abortion and family planning. Watch this Maafa 21 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t3Wqg-4Iw.
China has a one-child policy. "China likes to use violence to crush people like me," says Chen Guangcheng in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiWP2SQx2E. In 2005 Chen Guangcheng filed a class-action lawsuit against Chinese officials involved in forced abortions and forced sterilizations. Chen Guangcheng is involved with the Defending Freedoms Project which is an effort of multiple groups including the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission to increase attention and support for human rights and religious freedom through focusing on prisoners of conscience across the globe. Members of Congress "adopt" prisoners of conscience to advocate for their release. Pastor Saeed Abedini is a dual national of the US via naturalization and Iran by birth and is currently in Evin prison in Iran because of his Christian faith and works. Advocate for Pastor Abedini's release by prayer, by writing him a letter and by signing a petition at http://www.savesaeed.org.
Chen Guangcheng is blind. Being blind or having some other disability is not a reason to abort or to sterilize someone. God values all human life. Read my article "Embrace Disability. Reject Abortion" http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/02/embrace-disability-reject-abortion.html.
Amor primero, amor postrero (Love, first and last). God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit is Love always. Love is willing and able to overcome evil. America, China and other countries need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Much of the evil of abortion, sterilization and family planning is hidden and not yet made right. Some say it is not possible to get abortion, sterilization and family planning out of America, China and other places. Numbers 13:30 Amplified Bible says, "Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it." In what ways are you like Caleb? Write to:
Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195
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