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Very Enlightening, I was deeply depressed before I heard this sermon. Sometimes some of our white S.D.A. brother’s and sister’s can be so cruel, it’s as if we never have been segregated. And we still uphold the Adventist name, in Jesus name. We only have one Adventist school in the Fort Worth area that has 12 grades. My son has been going to this Academy since kindergarten. He had never been taught color coding. But through trial and error he has definitely lived it. I went there, also. My sister and I were the the first blacks to attend there. The Principal of the school said he would quit “if you sent those (N word) there”. We went, and he quit. They (the caucasian S.D.A’s) let us in, but gave us bad grades. Until my older sister moved here from Michigan and she corrected them from giving her straight A son’s (the grade’s in Michigan) D’s.
Needless to say they hounded both my other boys until, one day they finally kicked them out for financial problems (they made sure the bill could not possibly be even negotiated, especially for the only blacks there). They were thrown into the public school system with their Christian school background. They both didn’t fare well, one is dead, the other in jail. With my last son, (that came after the son that died) I wanted it to be different. So I did everything right. I dedicated him to the Lord, sent him to the same school the rest of us attended, with God on our lips and in our hearts. No matter how hard the struggle financially and physically, we sacrificed every want and most needs. They still kicked him out the last month of the year, so he had to go to a public school because even if he wanted to go to a regular Christian school, it was too late in the year to enroll. So off to Sodom And Gomora he went.
It was a struggle just to be able to drop him off. They have put so many stipulations on him getting back in, no tardies & no absences. All good grades. These were all fine, but running home from gangs & skipping school because they beat one boy so bad his eye’s were bulging out of their sockets. I am at the end of my rope whenever I even have to go to the school for invitation response to graduations or anything. They do not speak when spoken to. And now the black teachers that put the white children before the black children (I’ve just been informed) are being fired. I could take it all, like Job. If it wasn’t for my son and my husband - who never cry, but since Burton Academy they are brought to tears on a daily basis. Anyway, I was at my wit’s end, until your sermon. It lifted my burden a little. I need your fervent prayers. That my son returns to the school of the prophets, out of Babylon school. Finish next year, somewhere to live, we have been living in one room hotel for a year since my house caught fire last winter. And scholarships for my son (he is planning to attend Oakwood College). And relief from our adversary.
Sister, I have no words to describe how I feel after reading this. Stay strong, and draw close to Jesus. And remember He is right there with you - “Lo, I am with you always.”
Very Enlightening, I was deeply depressed before I heard this sermon. Sometimes some of our white S.D.A. brother’s and sister’s can be so cruel, it’s as if we never have been segregated. And we still uphold the Adventist name, in Jesus name. We only have one Adventist school in the Fort Worth area that has 12 grades. My son has been going to this Academy since kindergarten. He had never been taught color coding. But through trial and error he has definitely lived it. I went there, also. My sister and I were the the first blacks to attend there. The Principal of the school said he would quit “if you sent those (N word) there”. We went, and he quit. They (the caucasian S.D.A’s) let us in, but gave us bad grades. Until my older sister moved here from Michigan and she corrected them from giving her straight A son’s (the grade’s in Michigan) D’s.
Needless to say they hounded both my other boys until, one day they finally kicked them out for financial problems (they made sure the bill could not possibly be even negotiated, especially for the only blacks there). They were thrown into the public school system with their Christian school background. They both didn’t fare well, one is dead, the other in jail. With my last son, (that came after the son that died) I wanted it to be different. So I did everything right. I dedicated him to the Lord, sent him to the same school the rest of us attended, with God on our lips and in our hearts. No matter how hard the struggle financially and physically, we sacrificed every want and most needs. They still kicked him out the last month of the year, so he had to go to a public school because even if he wanted to go to a regular Christian school, it was too late in the year to enroll. So off to Sodom And Gomora he went.
It was a struggle just to be able to drop him off. They have put so many stipulations on him getting back in, no tardies & no absences. All good grades. These were all fine, but running home from gangs & skipping school because they beat one boy so bad his eye’s were bulging out of their sockets. I am at the end of my rope whenever I even have to go to the school for invitation response to graduations or anything. They do not speak when spoken to. And now the black teachers that put the white children before the black children (I’ve just been informed) are being fired. I could take it all, like Job. If it wasn’t for my son and my husband - who never cry, but since Burton Academy they are brought to tears on a daily basis. Anyway, I was at my wit’s end, until your sermon. It lifted my burden a little. I need your fervent prayers. That my son returns to the school of the prophets, out of Babylon school. Finish next year, somewhere to live, we have been living in one room hotel for a year since my house caught fire last winter. And scholarships for my son (he is planning to attend Oakwood College). And relief from our adversary.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
*edited for grammar.
Sister, I have no words to describe how I feel after reading this. Stay strong, and draw close to Jesus. And remember He is right there with you - “Lo, I am with you always.”
You will definitely be in my prayers.
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