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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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Black History and Chinese Abortions
The Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society invited James Forten, Sr., to speak on April 14, 1836. Some of what he said in his "The Tears of Those Who Will Be Left Behind" speech is, "Again, the South most earnestly and respectfully solicits the North to let the question [of] Slavery alone, and leave it to their bountiful honesty and humanity to settle. Why, honesty, I fear has fled from the South, long ago; sincerity has fallen asleep there, pity has hidden herself; justice cannot find the way; helper is not at home; charity lies dangerously ill; benevolence is under arrest; faith is nearly extinguished; truth has long since been buried, and conscience is nailed on the wall. Now, do you think it would be better to leave it to the bountiful honesty and humanity of the South to settle? No, no. Only yield to them in this one particular and they will find you vulnerable in every other."
In addition to speaking against African-American slavery and for African-American freedom (being an abolitionist,) James married an abolitionist. James Forten, Sr. (1766-1842) and his wife, Charlotte Vandine Forten (1785-1884,) raised their nine children in prosperity materially, spiritually and intellectually. They were Christians. James was one of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's wealthiest merchants. He owned a business producing sails for ships. His business employed his own sons and both black and white people. Charlotte was a businesswoman who invested in real estate. James and Charlotte were leading members in the free-black community in Philadelphia, which was America's largest free-black community. Charlotte along with the Forten daughters were founding members of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. James wrote letters and articles advocating justice and equality for black Americans and women published in various newspapers. James was also actively against forcing black people to leave America, which had become their country, to live in Africa or Haiti. James' and Charlotte's home was a frequent stop on the Underground Railroad which helped fugitive slaves to hide from their former slave masters on the path to freedom.
The Forten children are: Margaretta Forten (suffragist), Harriet Forten Purvis (abolitionist and suffragist), Robert Bridges Forten (abolitionist), Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (abolitionist), James Forten, Jr., (abolitionist), William Deas Forten (abolitionist), Charlotte Forten, Mary Theresa Forten and Thomas Willing Francis Forten. James and Charlotte taught their children to select spouses who shared their values. The Forten children absorbed the lessons and selected spouses who were also speakers and writers for abolition and other justice issues like women's right to vote.
The Forten Christian activism extended to their grandchildren. A Swahili Proverb says, "The way you bring up a child is the way it grows up." With God the Holy Ghost in control of our lives, nothing good is impossible. Galatians 5:16 New Living Translation Bible says, "So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves." One of the Forten's granddaughters, Charlotte Forten Grimke, was a teacher to newly freed slaves on the South Carolina Sea Islands. She said, "Let us labor to acquire knowledge, to break down the barriers of prejudice and oppression...believing that if not for us, for another generation there is a brighter day in store...." One of the Fortens' grandsons, Charles Burleigh Purvis, became the first black American to oversee a hospital with his appointment at the Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Who are some more Forten family members who have made notable contributions to society?
In the Forten family instead of men and women waging war against each other, they waged war against evil. Author and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, says, "Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side."
Former US. President Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging border states to outlaw slavery, helped push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the slaves nationwide in December 1865, led the United States through the American Civil War preserving the Union, and battled depression said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Why don't we have a separate Federal holiday recognizing Lincoln?
Some are afraid of large families because they have bought fear-based propaganda. Yet 2 Timothy 2:7 Amplified Bible says,"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control." Yes, one can motivate someone with fear. However, love is a more effective and enduring motivator. Fear creates false realities and causes fatalities. Love liberates and lengthens global good.
James Forten, Sr. and Charlotte Vandine Forten had nine children. Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of 20 children. A doctor forced a sterilization on Fannie Lou Hamer because she was black.
Abortions and sterilizations are forced on women in China because the Chinese government fears too many Chinese. Since 1979, Chinese couples have been limited to one child by law in order to control the country's population. In October 2011, Feng Jianmei, a 22-year-old woman from the small village of Yuping in Zeng Jia Township, Shaanxi province, became pregnant with her second child. On June 2, 2012, while Feng was seven months pregnant with her second child, she was forced to have an abortion. On June 11, Feng's family posted graphic pictures of her aborted child on the Internet. The images soon became a viral phenomenon, sparking controversy within China and drawing international attention to the issue of forced abortions.
Pray and participate in positive activities to end China's forced abortion and forced sterilization policies. Rescues from forced abortions and forced sterilizations are possible. Women's Rights of China edited and produced a short video reporting that family planning officials broke into the home of husband and wife Li Fu and Cao Ruyi because Ruyi didn't have Chinese governmental pregnancy approval; when Ruyi was taken to a hospital for a forced abortion, it couldn't be done because a hospital bed was unavailable; through the efforts of Women's Rights in China, ChinaAid Founder and President Bob Fu and U.S. Congressman Christopher Smith, Ruyi was rescued and so was baby Li Dahai; yet Fu and Ruyi still face a fine of $15,000.00 for Ruyi's pregnancy and are not able to register baby Li Dahai's birth with the Chinese government. The Canada Free Press reported on 3/18/2013 that the lack of registration means, "In China’s authoritarian system, this means his existence is not recognized by the government and he cannot get a government-issued identification card, which is required for all basic activities of a citizen, including attending school, opening a bank account and even getting medical care."
Activists inside and outside China are working to stop forced abortions and forced sterilization. Chen Guangcheng, who was blind from an early age and self-taught in law, is a leading activist born in China who is now living in the United States. Today he was scheduled to testify before a U.S. congressional subcommittee.
Juan 18:37 Biblia Bilingue Version Reina-Valera 1960 dice, "Le dijo entonces Pilato: Luego, eres tu rey? Respondio Jesus: Tu dices que yo soy rey. Yo para esto he nacido, y para esto he venido al mundo, para dar testimonio a la verdad. Todo aquel que es de la verdad, oye mi voz." John 18:37 Bilingual Bible New King James Version says, "Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
May la verdad (the truth) be heard and victorious.
In addition to speaking against African-American slavery and for African-American freedom (being an abolitionist,) James married an abolitionist. James Forten, Sr. (1766-1842) and his wife, Charlotte Vandine Forten (1785-1884,) raised their nine children in prosperity materially, spiritually and intellectually. They were Christians. James was one of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's wealthiest merchants. He owned a business producing sails for ships. His business employed his own sons and both black and white people. Charlotte was a businesswoman who invested in real estate. James and Charlotte were leading members in the free-black community in Philadelphia, which was America's largest free-black community. Charlotte along with the Forten daughters were founding members of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. James wrote letters and articles advocating justice and equality for black Americans and women published in various newspapers. James was also actively against forcing black people to leave America, which had become their country, to live in Africa or Haiti. James' and Charlotte's home was a frequent stop on the Underground Railroad which helped fugitive slaves to hide from their former slave masters on the path to freedom.
The Forten children are: Margaretta Forten (suffragist), Harriet Forten Purvis (abolitionist and suffragist), Robert Bridges Forten (abolitionist), Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (abolitionist), James Forten, Jr., (abolitionist), William Deas Forten (abolitionist), Charlotte Forten, Mary Theresa Forten and Thomas Willing Francis Forten. James and Charlotte taught their children to select spouses who shared their values. The Forten children absorbed the lessons and selected spouses who were also speakers and writers for abolition and other justice issues like women's right to vote.
The Forten Christian activism extended to their grandchildren. A Swahili Proverb says, "The way you bring up a child is the way it grows up." With God the Holy Ghost in control of our lives, nothing good is impossible. Galatians 5:16 New Living Translation Bible says, "So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves." One of the Forten's granddaughters, Charlotte Forten Grimke, was a teacher to newly freed slaves on the South Carolina Sea Islands. She said, "Let us labor to acquire knowledge, to break down the barriers of prejudice and oppression...believing that if not for us, for another generation there is a brighter day in store...." One of the Fortens' grandsons, Charles Burleigh Purvis, became the first black American to oversee a hospital with his appointment at the Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Who are some more Forten family members who have made notable contributions to society?
In the Forten family instead of men and women waging war against each other, they waged war against evil. Author and motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, says, "Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side."
Former US. President Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, encouraging border states to outlaw slavery, helped push through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which finally freed all the slaves nationwide in December 1865, led the United States through the American Civil War preserving the Union, and battled depression said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Why don't we have a separate Federal holiday recognizing Lincoln?
Some are afraid of large families because they have bought fear-based propaganda. Yet 2 Timothy 2:7 Amplified Bible says,"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control." Yes, one can motivate someone with fear. However, love is a more effective and enduring motivator. Fear creates false realities and causes fatalities. Love liberates and lengthens global good.
James Forten, Sr. and Charlotte Vandine Forten had nine children. Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of 20 children. A doctor forced a sterilization on Fannie Lou Hamer because she was black.
Abortions and sterilizations are forced on women in China because the Chinese government fears too many Chinese. Since 1979, Chinese couples have been limited to one child by law in order to control the country's population. In October 2011, Feng Jianmei, a 22-year-old woman from the small village of Yuping in Zeng Jia Township, Shaanxi province, became pregnant with her second child. On June 2, 2012, while Feng was seven months pregnant with her second child, she was forced to have an abortion. On June 11, Feng's family posted graphic pictures of her aborted child on the Internet. The images soon became a viral phenomenon, sparking controversy within China and drawing international attention to the issue of forced abortions.
Pray and participate in positive activities to end China's forced abortion and forced sterilization policies. Rescues from forced abortions and forced sterilizations are possible. Women's Rights of China edited and produced a short video reporting that family planning officials broke into the home of husband and wife Li Fu and Cao Ruyi because Ruyi didn't have Chinese governmental pregnancy approval; when Ruyi was taken to a hospital for a forced abortion, it couldn't be done because a hospital bed was unavailable; through the efforts of Women's Rights in China, ChinaAid Founder and President Bob Fu and U.S. Congressman Christopher Smith, Ruyi was rescued and so was baby Li Dahai; yet Fu and Ruyi still face a fine of $15,000.00 for Ruyi's pregnancy and are not able to register baby Li Dahai's birth with the Chinese government. The Canada Free Press reported on 3/18/2013 that the lack of registration means, "In China’s authoritarian system, this means his existence is not recognized by the government and he cannot get a government-issued identification card, which is required for all basic activities of a citizen, including attending school, opening a bank account and even getting medical care."
Activists inside and outside China are working to stop forced abortions and forced sterilization. Chen Guangcheng, who was blind from an early age and self-taught in law, is a leading activist born in China who is now living in the United States. Today he was scheduled to testify before a U.S. congressional subcommittee.
Juan 18:37 Biblia Bilingue Version Reina-Valera 1960 dice, "Le dijo entonces Pilato: Luego, eres tu rey? Respondio Jesus: Tu dices que yo soy rey. Yo para esto he nacido, y para esto he venido al mundo, para dar testimonio a la verdad. Todo aquel que es de la verdad, oye mi voz." John 18:37 Bilingual Bible New King James Version says, "Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
May la verdad (the truth) be heard and victorious.
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