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Saint augustine of Hippo second time I've said it!!!!
Sinner and founding intellectual/ theologian of the modern church!!!
Black in a time different from our own?
Augustine was of Berber descent, not Negro. Ethnically, he probably resembled Zinadine Zidane, the famous French soccer player who is ethnically Algerian.
Just watched a history channel show on George Washington Carver. It reminded me of all the studying I did as a kid in school. I was fasinated by him. I remember reading everything I could about his experiments. I got some good grades in both history, science class over many different years in school. All the different things he did with just a peanut,(no he didnt invent peanut butter) and the soybean. Anyway I have afew different black people in history I could list but GWC is my favorite person I admire. who else?
Color is and has never been an issue with me as we all need to move ahead and try to be color blind. However, if I had to pick a black person who would rate as my favorite it would be Arthur Ashe, the late great tennis player. He was a role model for kids of ALL colors
When I was bad, my parents always threatened to give me away to the "Black Mammy".
I didn't know who the Black Mammy was, but the sound of it would induce fear and trembling in me. But, when I asked my cousin who the Black Mammy was, she showed me the picture of this smiling grandma on the pancake box.
My parents' threats never worked again.
They even tried threatening to give me to the "Rag Man", but I knew he was a nice old guy who came around in his wagon to collect the old clothes we saved for him in a burlap sack. He used to let me pet his horse and give me a carrot to feed him.
I wish they had given me to the Rag Man. I could still have eaten Aunt Jemima's pancakes and my childhood might have been a lot happier.
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