That's A Man For You!

by snowbird 13 Replies latest social current

  • No Room For George
    No Room For George

    was just reading of Baldwin's influence on Maya Angelou before I logged onto here. You must read Go Tell It On the Mountain, also.

    I don't have any recommendatons for you on the MSTM; at one time, I looked seriously into the Nation of Islam, but JW's got me first!

    Does that football player, Randle-El, subscribe to that movement

    I just Googled him as that's a good question. From the results it appears he grew up and remains Pentecostal, but his family has a Muslim background, hence the name.

    I'll get to the Mountain book eventually, I just have so many other books vying for my attention. The verse, I can't recall either in Proverbs or Ecclesiastes on the making of many books, rings true. I bought a book recently released on the Black P Stones and Jeff Fort, and I was already vaguely familiar with their story. I already knew the P Stones in Los Angeles weren't the orginal, but I've never read anything that really went into the history of South Side Chicago like that. Check this out Syl, I bought a book on the P Stones, and a new Baldwin book, and guess what else I got? A book on the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Crazy mixture of reading, but ohhh I'm enjoying it. It's a breath of fresh air compared to the WT's literature. I feel almost as if I'm going home sometimes reading all this stuff. But definately, I'll get Tell It On the Mountain in the near future.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Ecclesiastes 12:12 There's no end to the publishing of books, and constant study wears you out so you're no good for anything else. The Message Bible

    I'm so happy for and proud of you, Miz.

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

    We heard about the BPSN way down in the backwoods; lots of people from my area went to Chicago.

    I can't remember Randle-El's first name, so I didn't try to google him.

    Here's to happy reading and self-fulfillment.

    Blessings.

    Syl

  • No Room For George
    No Room For George

    Antwaan, Syl. By the way, its funny that you mention the JWs got to you before the Muslims did. My father almost went Nation of Islam in his early to mid twenties. After studying or hanging out with them for a couple years, he brushed them off as nothing more than a social religion. Oh yeah, that and he fell in love with my mother who was a regular pioneer back then. When he saw her, it was a wrap. I asked my mother what she thought of him back then, and she replied, "He was the craziest negro you hoped to never run into." The WT gave him a reasonable discipline I guess, at least reasonable enough for those times. I wonder if that's why there's so many black JWs, black Adventists, and black Muslims? Is it the rigid discipline that attracts individuals with backgrounds and upbringings full of chaos?

  • snowbird
    snowbird
    Antwaan, Syl.

    OK.

    Thanks.

    Never would have remembered.

    I wonder if that's why there's so many black JWs, black Adventists, and black Muslims? Is it the rigid discipline that attracts individuals with backgrounds and upbringings full of chaos?

    That's my reason for joining up and encouraging my family to join. My family was definitely on the fringes of society - a tenant farming society at that! LOL.

    Syl

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