Kamala D. Harris is the first woman Vice President, the first Black Vice President, and the first South Asian descent Vice President. Kamala’s win symbolizes a plethora of groundbreaking achievements!
Witnessing Madam Vice President in action today was greater than I could have ever thought it would be! Every time I hear or see Madam Vice President in the media my heart smiles!
It matters that someone in the second-highest office in the land understands the full experience of a woman in a man’s world. #kamalaharrisdayThis picture is worth more than a thousand words! All girls, teen ladies and women wore their pearls today to acknowledge this historic occasion that touched the heart of our nation!
Kamala Harris has been sworn in as vice president of the United States, becoming the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to hold the office. She is also the first graduate of a historically Black college and the first member of a Black sorority, specifically member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated to do so.
Her personality is dynamic, and she knows how to handle business when duty calls!
Justice Sonia Sotomayor administered the oath. Sotomayor, the first woman of color to serve on the Supreme Court, previously administered the vice presidential oath to Biden in 2013.
Harris used two Bibles in the ceremony. The first belonged to Regina Shelton, a family friend whom Harris viewed as a surrogate mother. Harris has used this Bible before, when she took the oath of office as both California attorney general and U.S. senator. The second Bible was previously owned by the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black member of the Supreme Court and Harris’ lifelong political role model. – via NPR
THIS was a legendary moment in HERstory! I’m so proud to be able to say she is my Soror! It’s past time to become a true United States!#AlphaPhiMade #OLOofAKAWe have each other’s backs even in spirit! What is known is known! I enjoyed sharing this day with my significant other, my daughter, my Sorority sisters, family and friends. We pray that the deeds of this administration will match the promises! It was a fun day of laughter and love! So. Much. Fun! I could not resist the mention! 🤣Amanda is the youngest poet to perform at an inauguration at the tender age of 22. Amanda Gorman The people have spoken. Her designer is African American. Having a supportive spouse is critical to stay focused on the greater tasks to begin! Madam Vice President, we salute you! President Joe Biden picked the best woman for the job! See how that sounds? Yes, he picked the best PERSON for the job! Period. 🔥She paved the way…January 20, 2021 #KamalaHarrisDayCongratulations to the Vice President of these now re-United States, Kamala Harris! First woman. First of African descent. First of Southeast Asian descent. First HBCU graduate. First of Jamaican heritage. First of Indian heritage. With God, ALL things are possible! Thanks for visiting my page! If you love the content, please CashApp $IGNITEyourLife to support or send support to Toy@toyparker.com via PayPal! We appreciate your support!
My beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated celebrates Kwanzaa annually!
On the fifth day of Kwanzaa, we light the candle representing the principle Nia, or purpose. It encourages us to look within to not only set personal goals, but also to choose goals that benefit our community.
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On Election Day, I worked nonstop 6am to 9pm. I’d do it all over again to help facilitate the Democratic process! We had to set up the precinct the night before. We were in meetings and webinars during the summer, classes in the fall, plus so much more—all to ensure fairness and a safe voting experience. Even Republicans are stating how the Democratic process must prevail regardless of the outcome. For once, almost everyone is on the same page—this is needed in the days, months and years ahead. Keep the FAITH and spread it! Imagine how in 1964 when Vice President Elect Kamala Harris was born, African American women still did not have the right to vote! Delayed but not denied! This speaks volumes….This is a great start but we have a whole lot of work to do. God help us all and continue to work everything together for our good! We were Kings and Queens who were snatched from our homelands, enslaved, and went from picking cotton over generations to picking a president. Now we’re witnessing a woman of both African descent (Jamaican) and South Asian descent from an HBCU (Historically Black College and University) rise to be elected to the second highest seat in the land. It’s a new day. This shift in the atmosphere has been happening all quarter, and now the best is yet to come! We are all one race—the human race!I’ve always told my daughter that she can do anything she sets her mind to do but I’m happy that the world is showing her that I’m right! I wear my heels because there’s glass everywhere! No more glass ceilings! 🔥A commitment to service; NOT a stepping stone to status! #AlphaPhiMadeI’m a proud member of Omega Lambda Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated in the Mid-Atlantic Region. My undergraduate chapter is my beloved Alpha Phi Chapter at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. We thank all of the Divine Nine and everyone of all races for support of our beloved Vice President Elect Kamala Harris!Let’s choose to sit together in Heavenly places! God is giving us yet another chance to get it right! It’s up to us to be the change we seek!
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Lord,
Make me a channel (instrument) of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there’s doubt, true faith in you
Make me a channel (instrument) of your peace
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there’s sadness ever joy
Oh, Divine Master, grant that I may never seek so much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel (instrument) of your peace
It isn’t in pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we’re born to turn around unto you
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there’s sadness— ever joy!
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This entire year has been a roller coaster ride for sure for so many! My heart and prayers go out to anyone who has lost anyone up to this very day in our story (history). My heart and prayers equally go out to anyone in a financial crisis situation that they cannot seem to see their way through or out. These are truly trying times for us all in varying degrees. One thing I know for sure: God is real, His uncommon favor is real, His grace and mercies never cease, and if you believe, you are covered by the precious blood of Jesus.
Never give up. As the late Dr. (Bishop) Frank Summerfield used to say: Pressure the problem with prayer, praise and perseverance!
My life is truly a living testimony of what I like to call #RelentlessResilience. Even as I write this, I face circumstances that truly require a child-like faith. We all do from time to time. This year has been exceptional in its share of valleys and challenges. Always remember, that it is in the darkness that we need to heal from the inside out through our inner dialogue with ourselves to become the light we need to make it out of the tunnel into our Breakthrough Success! Greater is coming. You must feel it before you see it in order to achieve it! Joy truly comes in the morning!
These may be strange times but remember there`s nothing new under the sun. We must use this time to correct our mistakes and prepare for the unknown knowing that God is ultimately in control of it all but also that faith without works is dead. We must be diligent in our efforts to thrive in spite of the obstacles. You get what you focus on. Stay the course on the journey to success, love, self-care, prosperity, peace and freedom to be who you are destined to become! The answers are inside of you. Lean in to expand!
I choose to continue to pray, praise and consistently persevere through to the victory that is mine! Your victory is in your next step, your next effort, your next second of gratitude, and your next choice to believe that in spite of all that is going on in the world, you truly can do ALL things through Christ no matter what situations look like. Keep the faith. Keep your eyes on the promise and the prize! See it, feel it, say it and believe it so you can walk into your blessings that are waiting for you on the other side!
Stay in your own race at your own pace! Remember that what someone says about you has everything to do with how they view themselves. Listen carefully and move accordingly.I pray peace for your heart, mind, body and Soul today and always.This is what I am experiencing. The growth is very uncomfortable but extremely necessary! I am grateful for the expansion of my life!
As you go through this month, make time to be easier on yourself. The world has enough demands on you than for you to add to it. Choose to make September a month to remember not just through achievements, but through the internal dialogue necessary to put peace, harmony, love, ease, beauty, and spiritual calm and rest first. My goal to keep not just my skin moisturized but to keep my Soul moisturized with love and light. What is your main September goal? Feel free to comment below! We would love to hear from you and yours!
There are thousands of names and now one more is added: Jacob Blake. The only difference is that this time the victim actually lived to tell his side of the story. The other difference is people in America of ALL races are fed up with this type of implicit bias, systemic racism, The Empire of institutionalized racism is on the brink of finally falling apart at the seams.
My heart and prayers go out to Jacob Blake’s children and the countless other children and witnesses who are now traumatized for life. This country must atone for its millions or dare I say trillions of sins against the people who built this country on their backs through both free AND unjustly paid labor. 🔥
America needs a deep therapy session in order to even acknowledge the wrongs over generations. Proof of this is in the comments made last night during the Republican National Convention. Don’t just take my word for it. Please do your own research, read the news highlights and watch the news reels which reveal the huge and ever-growing rip in the very fabric of our society and nation.
Well stated. Prayerfully people from all backgrounds will continue to speak out.
CNN reported today that police shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, at close range Sunday evening as he tried to enter an SUV. In the vehicle were his 3-, 5- and 8-year-old sons, family attorney Ben Crump said.
Following the shooting, the injured man was flown to a hospital in Milwaukee. He remained in intensive care late Monday, his lawyer said.
“Thank God he’s alive,” Jacob Blake’s uncle, Justin Blake, told CNN. “We’re just praying for a great recovery, that he may have a great quality of life and that his father, my brother, can enjoy him.”
Only police reform will stop protests, Crump says
Enraged protesters poured onto the streets Sunday evening after video of the shooting circulated on social media. In it, two officers trail a step or two behind Blake as he walks around a gray SUV. As he reaches the driver door and opens it, the nearest officer grabs the tail of Blake’s tank top, and seven shots are heard, followed by a sustained sound of a car horn as Blake collapses into the car.
Per CNN, two Kenosha officers are on administrative leave. The local police union has urged the public to withhold judgment until a state investigation is complete.
Excerpts are from the article titled, “Kenosha becomes center of nationwide protests after police shoot Black man in front of his children”, by Eliott C. McLaughlin and Christina Maxouris, CNN Updated 9:25 AM EDT, Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
My friend Dr. Jai Armstrong said it best! This is the way we must shift our perspective from what happened to what needs to happen in preparation for what’s to come. We cannot let the world forget her and countless others who were senselessly murdered by police. Share this article with your friends and family. #JoinTheConversationThank you to all allies. We appreciate you!There are two pandemics happening simultaneously. Both need our immediate prayers, attention, leadership, and legislation to help bring them under control until they end. Subscribe to Toy’s YouTube channel for more to come!
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🔥The original reason for the challenge: #Pinar and her Turkish sisters were victims of domestic violence. It could have been any of us. Almost 20 years ago, it was me. The difference: I lived to tell about it.
I spoke out against domestic violence at one of my first workshops at North Carolina A&T State University as a new Alpha Phi initiate and still became a victim years later. It can happen to anyone.
By the grace of God, I had Nia and continue to thrive today. I’ve been divorced from that situation and the person attached to it since 2005 and God blessed me 4 years ago with My amazing Omega Man whose heart was made to love me. He loves Nia as his own. I’m beyond grateful. ❤️
I’m grateful for peace, love, passion, joy and happiness. Is he perfect? No. Am I? No. Together we’re perfect in Christ and perfectly imperfect together by the Grace of God. I’m no longer afraid. I’m finally safe. We are each other’s lighthouse of love on safe harbors.
If you’re reading this and don’t feel safe, DM me so I can send you the national domestic violence hotline. I encourage everyone to offer the same at least once during their time on “The Gram”. Let us uplift, empower, inspire and encourage each other always.
Every woman deserves respect, love and security. #justiceforpinar
#enddomesticviolence
#challengeaccepted #purposedrivenlife
I loved through the fire and hell to get to my Heaven on Earth 🌍 My Soul is a witness.
We need financial reparations and reconstruction of the systems designed to stifle our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
We helped build this country and deserve the civil liberties and “justice for ALL” that this Republic promises to Americans. We are Americans. Stop systemically killing us. End systemic racism and rebuild this country to be a true land of opportunity and actual United States that we declare we are!🔥
Protesters are arrested and charged with a federal crime without a second thought, but her murderers are still free and enjoying life? This is NOT the true “American Way”.
While many important truths are coming out…🔥 Did you know? The history of systemic racism runs throughout the very fabric of this country. Unraveling it and reconstructing the fabric will truly take concerted action and efforts to achieve justice AND equality! 🔥
This is why the twenty dollar bill must be changed on both sides. The philosophy of racism is both covert and overt and deeply imbedded within our nation’s culture. Did you know this? They should be celebrated! There’s so much more US History to learn!
True awareness during this “New Enlightenment Era” starts with all of us. Together, we must rebuild this nation. We must correct the education system where it all begins and make the crooked places straight in our legal, banking and housing systems. These contain the heartbeat of institutionalized racism that plagued our nation. We’re now exposed as a nation, but the beauty is that we are able to make a more perfect Union!
We must be the change we seek today!We must continue to speak up in our homes and communities we comprise. We need to think before saying cliche phrases. Let us remember that people with melanin are human beings with the same rights as those lacking melanin. There is only one race – the human race. No more systemic genocide. Thank you to ALL in the fight against racism!
As a American who is called Black only because of a social construct called “race” that was created to oppress humans who have melanin in their skin, I come to you today to invite you to have a very timely #CourageousConversation. Many surely will see the videos and ask me, “Toy, have you always celebrated Juneteenth?” My answer is actually, “No”. Did I always know about Juenteenth? No, but I knew about it a lot sooner than many of my friends and family. I did teach my history students about it decades ago, but school was always out by the time it rolled around so I wasn’t able to truly incorporate it into any curricular instruction in terms of lesson planning. Still today, I’m not going to push it on anyone, but if you’re willing to learn more to understand why many of us are acknowledging it and why we feel a deeply-rooted moral and social responsibility to educate as many within our sphere of influence–this article is for you, my friend.
This article is my contribution to bring light to a holiday that has been going on for decades but just not acknowledged nationally by the very country that daily supports systems that ignore the value of our very lives and expect us to only partially thrive in it. Yet generation after generation, by the grace of God, we do that which was never originally intended for us and greater works!
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory, or an acceptance of the way things are. It's a celebration of progress. It's an affirmation that despite the most painful parts of our history, change is possible––and there is still so much work to do.https://t.co/5XCRdnk3iR
“On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that would be quoted for centuries to come. But what do you really know about the Gettysburg Address? Check out some things you may not know about the iconic speech.
Lincoln’s address starts with “Four score and seven years ago.” A score is equal to 20 years, so he was referencing 87 years ago — 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed. The speech was made, then, seven score and seven years ago.
On the day of the speech, Lincoln’s oration was hardly the highlight of the occasion. Instead, the biggest speech belonged to Edward Everett, who spoke for two hours before Lincoln took the podium.
Everett later wrote to Lincoln about his speech, saying, “I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.”
We get our current text of the speech from the fifth of five written copies, all written in Lincoln’s handwriting. Each copy differs slightly, which probably stems from Lincoln’s self-editing.
The Library of Congress has two copies of the address, the Illinois State Historical Library has one, Cornell University has one and one is in the Lincoln room in the White House.”
That was a very brief but important excerpt from an article by meganfriedman in Time Magazine written back on November 19, 2010. Let’s now put his words in proper context rather than just reciting them:
Happy Emancipation Day!
Just a few facts:The US was 3rd to last in the Americas to abolish slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation came abt partially because enslaved people were self-liberating by the thousands. Don’t let them tell you we just waited to be free.#JuneteenthDay
Although we do have a long way to go for systemic changes, we do now have the unique opportunity RIGHT NOW, to give birth through these severe labor pains happening world wide to deliver (birth) a new nation truly conceived in liberty (through the truth, which sets us all free), and dedicated to the proposition that ALL MEN and WOMEN (ALL HUMANS) are created equal.
The new civil war that we are in during this pandemic is a test and opportunity of a lifetime. It all begins and ends with each of us. Are you willing to learn the truth, accept it, face our nation and rebuild it from the infrastructure and systems outward?
The rest of the world is demanding the change along with us this time, but the question is : America — land of the “FREE” and home of the “BRAVE”– are you truly brave enough to let ALL HUMANS LIVE EQUALLY? It’s going to take more than giving us today as a national holiday. It’s going to take more than companies giving employees time off today. It’s going to take more than taking Aunt Jemima off the shelves. Rewrite the history books you have rewritten to give true accounts of who we are and our contributions to this world. Reconstruct legislation that was created to systemically oppress us. Get rid of the word “race” and replace it with human. Yes no more applications. Education for ALL. Access to ALL. God is moving fast. He is forcing your hand America. He has given you so many times to repent and step away from your wicked ways. The truth can no longer be hidden. The whole world knows and is watching this time. Time will once again reveal the nature of the heart of all leaders at all levels. History as we know it is a series of decisions. What side of history will you be on when the new books are written? America, justice is calling and will not stop until you answer.
#OTD in 1865, enslaved African Americans were notified of their freedom by Union troops in Galveston Bay, TX—two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
May the only nation that rises out of this dispensation be a real one that is truly of ALL people, by ALL people and for ALL people — including humans with any shade of melanin in our skin. We have a great work that lies ahead. With God, all things are possible. I boldly declare that true Christians /(insert your religion if it differs here), truly want to see changes and will do their part to care enough to make it happen! May those born during this time have a greater story of a new America to tell their children for generations to come in perpetuity.
On that note:Happy Juneteenth and blessings to all! It is time for us all to grow from the discomfort which is where we are as a nation. Education is truly the pathway to freedom for everyone!
Origin
mid 16th century: from Latin educatio(n- ), from the verb educare (see educate).
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