Where do you want to go from here? Are you properly registered? Have you built up your credit credentials? What about a down payment and ongoing acts substantiating that your credit is approved?
Whose rights are they anyway? If the leadership doesn’t lead in a godly manner and we follow that leadership even though we know what they are saying and see the results of their leadership actions, we doom ourselves to defeat. We see that as a current visual.
Several weeks ago, I shared I was going to do a short self-imposed sabbatical to reflect, relax, rest, and restore my inner peace to end the year strong and start the new year with enthusiasm. While I was planning to get away for a few days, the word the Lord kept putting in my spirit was unshakable.
Clearly, a critical and compelling task of our times is to remember, raise up and reaffirm in our sensitivities, thought and practice our culture of striving and struggle as a people, for the needs of our people, the character of the times and the current course of historical events demand it. And we must remember that we must come to the table and tasks of this urgent and demanding moment, not naked and in need, but fully clothed in our own culture.
In California, access to clean water is not only a growing concern—it is a crisis, especially for communities of color. This lack of access to safe, reliable drinking water is more than a matter of infrastructure; it’s a profound environmental injustice that continues to erode the health and livelihoods of millions of residents and California families. With our changing climate and extreme weather patterns growing worse by the year, we must take decisive action to protect water security for all Californians.
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Election Day proved to be a worldwide date to distinguish itself in the historical annuls. I termed it “Day for the Elect.”
For those of you who follow my column, you know a couple of months ago, I shared about one of my dear friends since childhood, Dr. Yvonne Cagle, who has amazing accomplishments, and yet there were a couple of things she was still hoping (and deserving) to achieve during her lifetime, but the right team needed to come together in order to help make it happen.
On the night of the election, I did not go to any of the watch parties because I didn’t want to get caught up in all that emotion, I wanted to keep my thinking cap on. Like the majority of Black people, I was hopeful that our dear sister would win, but I made it a priority to keep my feelings in check, not allowing myself to get too high or too low regardless of what the outcome would be.
Amnon, Tamar’s brother, is not the only one in the ancient family of patriarchs who suffered from lustful desires and acted them out. There’s a difference between wanting something or someone and making moves to possess and satisfy the desires, whether sexual or material or whatever they may be.
This article is being written on the eve of the Nov. 5th election. As I put pen to paper, we still do not know who the winner in the various races will be, especially for the highest office of the land, but what I do know is the one who holds tomorrow and that ultimately God is in control. We cannot put our trust in man (or woman) but rather in a higher power that is in control of everything.
By the time this column is read, there will be evidence of a winner of this presidential election, even if, as expected, it is denied by enthralled deniers and their resultant machinations and maneuvers of various malicious and vicious kinds.
By the time you guys see this article, the election will be over. Every Tuesday, I forward my article to the paper by 12 noon. Unfortunately, this week was election day, so you will have to wait for my thoughts on the election, pro or con, and I can’t wait to write it.
As Maya Angelou said, “When people show you who they are, believe them.” We closely know Kamala Harris, who she is, what she believes, why she cares and that she’s ready to get to work for all Americans. Harris has spent her entire career in public service. It’s a path she chose because of her deep belief in freedom, opportunity and justice — the promise of America.
I write today in advocacy for Senate Bill 1348, Postsecondary Education: Designation of California Black-Serving Institutions.
We proudly endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President and look forward to supporting her in the upcoming election, and are confident that as President, she will foster an economically beneficial environment for small businesses, entrepreneurship and workforce development.