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If I could write a letter to us--people of color--from a white person it would be as follows: Parental discretion is advised. Dear People of Color: I have been thinking about you, and I wish you knew that White people are really sorry for the events that led to the African slave trade, but we don't know what else we can do to help in culture unison. White people sometimes feel that African Americans would rather be slaves instead of trying in this new economy. We've always been a broke country and, yes, we used Africans to sustain the USA, or you could say that we used Africans for us to remain here instead of returning to Europe. African Americans care way too much about the "correct" behavior of kids, and materialistic things. White people are not originally from here either.  Are any of us, originally, from this country? The USA was a new home for most Native Americans, too. Maybe we were only actually right about segregated schools, and should have ...

In this new America, I believe that there are some businesses that simply can't be soley for one-racial identity (customers). Does your list look like mine? My List Health care venues; Government staff venues; Places of worship or denominations when such organization is "the only" like-organization in a local community; Evening programs of places of worship; Political parties;  Funeral homes; Sport teams; Airports; Gas suppliers of gas stations; Car dealerships; Cable services; Utility services; Banks; Credit card services; Hotels, motels, Inns, etc.; and,  Internet services. What I learned from making this list is that all lives and occupations really do matter.

Perhaps some of you, like me, have a daughter who has pursuits to attend college, or desires to move away for their first job opportunity. To a Daughter Leaving Home When I taught you at at eight to ride a bicycle, loping along beside you as you wobbled away on two round wheels, my own mouth rounding in  surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved  path of the park, I kept waiting for the thud of your crash as I sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance, pumping, pumping for your life, screaming with laughter, the hair flapping behind you like a handkerchief waving goodbye. -- Linda Pastan Look what our attitude of  American finance systems have done--productively allowed the labels or identification of our most highlighted social dysfunctions towards money. A Song in the Front Yard I've stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back where it's tough and untended and hungry weed grows.  A girl gets si...

Tweet Summary for August "And You, Your Point of View Is__?"  is an opportunity for an online, open class-style audience, to ponder of topic tweets which may or may not be factual. Tweets Contributor: Families, general public. Sponsor Associate: A Time To Learn Academy. Who are the brown people (Native Americans)? yellow people (Mexicans, Latinos)? red people (Asians)? Back in the day, the Catholic pope requested the burning of 1000s of books housed at home libraries and library-model organizations. It use to be, if a child wanted to read books their parents would be required to consent before such actions. Some parts of Europe have banned any/all untraditional religious teachings targeting children and seniors. There is a decline of citizenship and tourism in areas owned by the French, British, and Australia. In the Islamic faith, policies and regulations--developed by Islamic leaders--are only upheld for 10 years; thereafter, such public policies are reintrod...

Tweet Summary for May "And You, Your Point of View Is__?"  is an opportunity for an online, open class-style audience, to ponder of topic tweets which may or may not be factual. Host: Sherlene Stevens. Sponsor Associate: A Time To Learn Academy. Tweet Show, follow @atimetolearn   Daily Tweet Show Eight out of ten moms work in the U.S. Not all females want to own a business or work at all, and that's okay. No one says, "Okay, God, I want to be born into a generational-cursed family." Four out of ten moms are the earners in the household. There are preachers, in other countries, whose sermons are prepared for them--by their country leader or president. Cubans [females] are learning how to hold baby showers at their dwellings. Ladies we must practice discretion; "Saying and doing the right thing in the right way at the right time." How many, Ladies, have the same number of kids that your mothers had? Or do you have more? Some count...

I read an interesting article of the facts of the totem pole, but I do not know to whom to give credit. Source unknown, n.d. The totem pole is mostly seen, today, in the Northwest Coast of our country. Did you know that the totem poles were actually status symbols? Only the wealthy could afford them: So, let's climb an imaginary totem pole so that we may review the history of the totem pole. Do you believe that you would have owned a totem pole? Let's climb the totem pole, unique households? Wealthy Native Americans took many hours to carve their totem poles. Such artwork of animals on the poles were of actual historical events or stories. There were many kinds of poles: Some as tributes of honored dead or of a chief. Others were used to make fun of or shame someone or the dead, and would often be carved upside down. Poles were used as a visual of one's family tree. Some Native Americans believe that they were ancestors of an animal or plant. If a group of ...

THIS IS A MUST-READ. Print a copy for self, friends, etc.! I would like to share with you a few main laws that are known by faith believers and leaders. These laws may exist in your community. They are especially important to know if  you do not attend a church or religious building on a consistent basis. They set you up ... They know or make our real laws ... They will comment that you are doing a great job or service ... All the while ... They create or inform of fictitious criminal activity but in reality, read the following: What Not To Do In Your Community To Avoid Being An Uninvited Citizen or Family Do Not Females, do not dress like "real" girls; Allow your teens to date; Allow females to drive a vehicle of any kind; Allow your teen to earn more than the adults in your community; Allow teens or adults to participate in secular entertainment or fine art activities; Allow kids and students with good grades or higher GPA than expected of in your comm...

Men, think you're having a hellish week? From an African tribe in the Thonga of southern Africa, there is a cultural tradition that has been adopted by men and college societies and religious leaders all over the world--in one behavior or another: aka Hell Week.      When a boy is somewhere between 10 and 11 years of age, he is sent by his parents to "circumcision school", which is held every four or five years.  In company with his age-mates he undergoes severe hazing by the adult males of the society.  The initiation begins when each boy runs the gauntlet between two rows of men who beat him with clubs. At the end of this experience, he is stripped of his clothes and his hair is cut.  He is next met by a man covered with lion manes and is seated upon a stone facing this "lion man." Someone then strikes him from behind and when he turns his head to see who has struck him his foreskin is seized and in two movements is cut off by the "lion man." Aft...

Most of you are probably familiar with the top most famous Native Americans of the American soil. Hiawatha Pocahontas Sequoiah Black Hawk Sitting Bull Tecumseh Geronimo Pontiac Will Rogers Sacajawea Crazy Horse Squanto Maria Tall Chief Cuchise Red Cloud Source: listverse.com/2007/11/20/top-15-most-famous-native-americans Our Famous Black Native American Entertainers *Honoring Black Native Americans Who Have Inspired Crispus Attacks Fredrick Douglass Rosa Parks Langston Hughes James Earl Jones Rev. Jesse Jackson Entertainers Whitney Houston (deceased), Singer/Actress Eartha Kitt (deceased), Singer/Actress James Brown (deceased), Singer Lena Horne (deceased), Singer/Actress Red Foxx (deceased), Singer/Comedian/Actor The Jacksons (family including Michael), Singers/Actors Tina Turner, Singer L.L. Cool J, Rapper/Actor Chris Tucker, Comedian/Actor Debbie Allen and Felicia Rashad (sisters), Everything :) Singers/Dancers/Actresses Sanaa Latha...

From the Editor For the entire month, the center is hosting White History Month. I appreciate you audience for your patience as I provide interesting topics to go along with this unique cultural theme.  NewMonday Show The lecture discussed how to observe and maintain your unique composition: Do you, Boo, and see won't God Bless You. sherleneonline.org 24/7 Lecture notes can be found at the family bonding portal (sherleneonline.com) Let's talk Does a country’s past have any thing to do with its present, and future? Source: Kraske, R. (1972). America the Beautiful: Stories of Patriotic Songs Patriotic Songs Yankee Doodle tells the challenges of a British sergeant's (1755; French vs. North American) struggle to teach white North Americans soldiers how to march together – to experience something new.   An army doctor, Dr. Richard Shuckburg, suggested using a song to keep the soldiers in step. First, the British verses were changed to fi...

This is a family discussion about college debt and higher learning participations. (Black History Month) Discussion takes place after my published book, The Script in My Box: A Journal of Forgiveness Sherlene : You didn’t understand, but it’s true! I was “right” in demanding to finish my college degree at DE State U, but as you know they wouldn’t allow me to. Family : Well, you know that most of us weren’t able to complete college. So, we didn’t know how to help you. We told you to just find a job – any job, but you said… Sherlene : (interrupts) I said that I really needed to finish up. I want to tell all of you something, today. What I didn’t tell you was that I had sponsors (government sponsors) that were helping me to fund the whole thing –my education and the center. They were going to help me get the resources to open the center (in Chestertown). I made a contract with them indicating that I would get my degree: and, then, open the center. Since it didn’t happen, they...

From the Editor I am encouraging each of my unique households to read the 2013 Family Quilt Newsletter on my site, sherleneonline.com. The current company theme is Honoring Married Couples Month. I believe that we all appreciate a real love story, and genuine love of married couples. It keeps me inspired. This month is also Black History Month.  I am amazed at some of my (alleged) personal discrimination situations that I have been reviewing. And it's only the fifth day of February! There is a lot of White (race) fear associated with America's cultural history. Unique households, how far have we really come culturally in our society if we are not willing to discuss our past? Whites must be willing to pay honestly for the work, and sacrifices of present-and-past Black slavery, or this country is truly going to suffer. Are we the citizens who, for years, have caused the disturbance in economic systems felt across the g...