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Coming Back Black
Sep 15, 2008 | 3:11 PM
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Coming Back Black 
> 
>In a round table discussion about whether reincarnation  
>was really possible, a financially struggling single woman 
> said,  
>'I want to come back as a rich white woman's  
>poodle that's pampered And rides around all day in  
>her luxury car.' 
>A tired waitress said, 'I want to come back rich  
>and make a lot of Money and be a mega-super  
>recording star'. 
>The frustrated computer tech said, 'If I can come  
>back, I want to be The President, so I can change a lot  
>of things about this world near and far.' 
> Another woman thought about it and said, 'I  
>don't know if it's possible, but if I can...  
>God, please let me come back a  
>BLACK WOMAN. 
>I want to come back with a mind fierce and sharp,  
>with a spiritual faith that never waivers or doubts. 
>With a smile that is warm, and a body divine - with  
>honey, cinnamon or chocolate skin, draped in purple and  
>gold. And, whether young or old, always have enough money  
>so the words broke, layaway, overdue, or postdated check aren't  
>in MY vocabulary. 
>I want to be a sister to my sister. 
>A woman wise when choosing my mate or a date. 
>I want to be able to cook greens, barbecue chicken,  
>macaroni and cheese, cornbread, a peach cobbler  
>and a lemon pound cake all at the same time.  
>I want to come back a BLACK WOMAN with self-esteem,  
>worthy of being treated like a QUEEN by my King. A  
>woman with patience, love, and wisdom for children. A  
>BLACK WOMAN with subscriptions to Essence, Jet, Ebony,  
>Black Enterprise , and the Wall Street Journal.  
>I want to come back a BLACK WOMAN with at least one  
>great diamond from the Motherland on my finger.  
>I want to come back with the quiet courage of Rosa  
>Parks, and the voice of Ella Fitzgerald, the political  
>courage of Ida B. Wells, the determination of Harriet  
>Tubman, the spiritual poise of Susan L.Taylor, the  
>business savvy of Oprah Winfrey, the eloquence of  
>Dr. Maya Angelou, and be the author of bestselling  
>books like Iyanla Vanzant.  
>I want to come back as a BLACK WOMAN, who can stay  
>focused on GOD regardless of the circumstances. I want  
>to be SAVED from the penalty of sin.  
>I want to never let what a person says or does  
>change my demeanor.  
>I want to be humble, and to love and  
>be loved unconditionally.  
>I want skin that is flawless and soft, eyes of  
>discernment, and lips that speak ONLY the truth.  
>I want hands of gentleness and feet of prosperity.  
>I want to be a lawyer to enforce the laws which  
>man has broken.  
>If reincarnation is real, please let me come back as a  
>BLACK WOMAN!!! 
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tees read my blog
Sep 15, 2008 | 3:51 PM

Greetings Newsbuggy.

Question (although I already know the answer): Why do we hear so much about Rosa Parks?

How many of us hear about, or are taught about: Irene Morgan Kirkaldy.

Information to follow, unfortunately, I don't have the means to post her picture.

Peace.
tees read my blog
Sep 15, 2008 | 3:52 PM

And this is relevant, btw, as this blog can be considered a tribute to Black Women.

GLOUCESTER, Va. - Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision more than a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the same, has died at 90.

Kirkaldy, born Irene Morgan in Baltimore in 1917, was arrested in 1944 for refusing to give up her seat on a Greyhound bus heading from Gloucester to Baltimore, and for resisting arrest.

Her case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by an NAACP lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first black justice on the high court.

The Supreme Court held in June 1946 that Virginia law requiring the races to be separated on interstate buses — even making passengers change seats during their journey to maintain separation if the number of passengers changed — was an invalid interference in interstate commerce.

At the time, the case received little attention, and not all bus companies complied with the ruling at first, but it paved the way for civil rights victories to come, including Parks' famous stand on a local bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955.

Kirkaldy also inspired the first Freedom Ride in 1947, when 16 civil rights activists rode buses and trains through the South to test the Supreme Court decision.

In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal — the second highest civilian honor in the United States.

Asked where her courage came from that day, Kirkaldy said simply: "I can't

tees read my blog
Sep 15, 2008 | 3:53 PM

Asked where her courage came from that day, Kirkaldy said simply: "I can't understand how anyone would have done otherwise."

She was not part of any organized movement, unlike Parks, who was an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People when she challenged segregation.

Kirkaldy, then a young mother, boarded the Greyhound bus in Hayes Store, Va., and took a seat toward the back for her ride home. She was recovering from surgery and had taken her two children to stay temporarily with her mother in Gloucester.

A few miles down the road, the driver told her to move because a white couple wanted to occupy her row.

"I said 'Well, no,'" she recalled. "That was a seat I had paid for."

Kirkaldy said she willingly paid a $100 fine for resisting arrest because she did kick the officer who tried to remove her from the bus.

"Sometimes, you are so enraged, you don't have time to be afraid," she remarked in 2000.

She lived out of the spotlight for decades after the case, earning a college degree in 1985 at age 68, and lived most of her life in New York state.

She said she didn't mind the relatively little notice her achievements brought.

"If there's a job to be done, you do it and get it over with and go on to the next thing," she told The Washington Post in 2000.

Her daughter, Brenda Bacquie, told the newspaper: "She always taught us that if you know you're right, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It's a moral thing. ... She doesn't see herself as a hero."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070813/ap_on_r
tees read my blog
Sep 15, 2008 | 3:53 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070813/
ap_on_re_us/obit_kirkaldy
LilBits read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 4:03 PM

Buggy babe:

A great read and thank you but if one was to ask me although I do not believe in reincarnation I just want to come back as ME! This applied to me and you described me perfectly, lol, just kidding as I am not serious about this last statment, just humorous is all.
newsbuggy read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 4:08 PM

Tees thanks for the info, however I posted this just as it was written.

Bits....LOL! I love your humor!
Mountaineerfan read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 4:40 PM

She got up. She was a
big woman. BIG woman. Her name was Bertha. Bertha Butt. She was one
of the Butt sisters. He didn't care. He looked up at her and said:
"Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me
sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me!". She looked down on him.
She was ready to crush him, but she began to like him. She said
(falsetto):
"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy". He said: "Wha?". She said (falsetto):
"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy". You know what he said? He started it way
back then. I wouldn't lie to you. When she said (falsetto)
"I'll sock it to ya, Daddy" he said "Right on! Right on! Hotpants!
Hotpants! Ugh...ugh...ugh".-Jimmy Castor Bunch
newsbuggy read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 5:00 PM

MF, I am not going to delete this post, I want people to read this ignorance you posted.
Mountaineerfan read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 5:16 PM

Good!I want them to read it too,because frankly I thought that old song was hillarious.
Mountaineerfan read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 5:17 PM

BTW,Buggy,I'll take The JImmy Castor Bunch over that Helen Reddy sh it any day.
Mountaineerfan read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 5:24 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a3gHYiG6zg
LilBits read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 5:52 PM

Mountain:

I am quite shocked that you would know who Jimmy Castor Bunch is and even less surprised that you would choose that song as we both know that the main reason is to shed some light on the fact of why many of your ancestors chose black woman as we have what some others do not except for Kim K. Now I know that was not politically correct, but neither was your statements. You really should amaze yourself with the small mind that you have as I am sure that is not all that is small, but hey, to each his own, right.
Mountaineerfan read my blog view my photos
Sep 15, 2008 | 8:31 PM

"I am quite shocked that you would know who Jimmy Castor Bunch is"

This shows how very,very little you know about me.If you'd been paying attention to the many things i've said since i've been here it wouldn't suprise you a bit.

Besides I don't know what the hell everyone's getting all worked up over a simple joke for.After all I didn't get worked up over that racist mantra up top indicating that black women are somehow superior to white women emotionally,physically,mentally and even spiritually.Now if I re-worded that poem just a bit to make it about white women there would an uproar to beat the bongos.
priveye
Sep 16, 2008 | 5:37 AM

Come back as a black woman and you can be a news reader on fox-jive as long as you can smile.
factseeker read my blog
Sep 16, 2008 | 9:49 AM

Bits! Bits! Bits!

"You really should amaze yourself with the small mind that you have as I am sure that is not all that is small, but hey, to each his own, right."

To funny. I can not stop laughing. You are on fire. TO to funny. I'm scared of you. One thing you are not...is a push over. I can't stop laughing.

Let's give him a little credit...he took his medicine like a man. All be it a "small" one...get it.

To funny.
Mountaineerfan read my blog view my photos
Sep 16, 2008 | 10:43 AM

Seeker if you're refering to me when you say "Let's give him a little credit...he took his medicine like a man" then you should read again because I'm still in the middle of dishing yours out.

Then again there's the whole "All be it a "small" one...get it" comment.

What?Are you devolving to stupid penis jokes now?I mean I can see Bits not being any brighter than that but you???That's o.k. though because I understand.After having taken the kind of beating I gave you elsewhere on this board over your The Klan and it's Democrat origines you must be feeling pretty small yourself,huh?
factseeker read my blog
Sep 16, 2008 | 11:16 AM

Gee Mount, it was just a play on words. Loosen up. You have to leave room for imagination. It was just sarcasm. You have certainly let everybody know what you were thinking. Does the term t.m.i. come to mind.

That got your dander up...maybe she's right.

For the record...I was refrencing "small" man.
factseeker read my blog
Sep 17, 2008 | 12:35 PM

Mount, I re-examined the blog you referenced above in your response post to me. If I am not mistaken I provided a more detailed history of the transfer/switch within the Democratic and Republican parties along the issues of race,rascism, racist, the klan etc. Contrary to what you write...the only beating that took place is you refering to a topic, after the fact, that is currently a dead horse.
SETyrone
Sep 17, 2008 | 1:30 PM

give mes a cople of those black beauts.
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