Eternity

Eternity
The Pastor stood up and said “If you don’t give your lives to Christ you will spend eternity in Hell!” Majority of the congregation took heed to the pastor’s warning and gave their lives to Christ, while Antwan, Tracy, and Michael sat laughing and thought twice about giving their lives to Christ. They were thinking that they had all the time in the world not knowing that this day was going to change the rest of their lives! When the service ended on that Sunday afternoon the Pastor call the three over and said to them, “I notice that you all didn’t come to the alter to receive eternal life,” and Antwan replied, “look Pastor I’m living the life I got money, cars, and many friends what can Christ offer me right now?I have all the time in the world to change,” “and what about you two, do you all feel the same way,” questioned the pastor, they shook their heads repeatedly. Pastor added, “Well in the book of James fourth chapter and the fourteenth verse it reads, ‘Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away!’ ” Then Tracy interrupted, “No disrespect to you pastor, but the bottom line is, I aint tryin to hear all that cause what you sayin is a waste of breath. I’m too young to get saved and I still want to go clubbin and if I get saved I gotta give that up! So thank you, but not thank you!” Michael added, “and I’m not sure about getting saved but I’m a good person that I just want to do me.” “Ok I understand that you think you are too young to receive Christ but remember that tomorrow is not promised to you. May God bless and have mercy on your souls because you’re going to need it,” the pastor left to greet the rest of the congregation. The three walked outside silently thinking about what the pastor said. Then Antwan said,” well I’ll see yall tomorrow you know I gotta make dis money,” “alright be easy,” the other two replied. The two also said their good-byes and departed.
It was 3 o clock in the morning on the day of October 31 when Antwan finished making his drop off. As Antwan got out of his car he saw a strange shadow that was following him. He looked back, saw no one, and kept walking until he saw a man dressed in all black with a ski mask covering his identity. Antwan did not recognize who the person was until he took off his mask. It was the Devil himself. He looked so demonic. His eyes were fiery red and his voice was as deep as a trough. The Devil said to Antwan , “thanks for carrying out my plan, I shaped and molded you just the way I wanted you. If you haven’t noticed, you are dead I caused you to get in accident in the car I gave you with the drugs I told you to sell. All of those bad thoughts you thought, I told you think. You know I thought I was going to lose you on Sunday morning at the altar call to our enemy but I knew that you still wanted the life I gave you now it’s time for you to see how I live. Your soul is mine!” The Devil rapidly took Antwan to hell with him.
Tracy and a couple of her friends were at CLUB AQUA. She was drinking and havin a ball until she went on to go dance and passed out. Her friends immediately rushed her to Halifax Hospital. Tracy went into a coma. As Tracy lied motionless on the hospital bed , she was dreaming that she were back at CLUB AQUA. When she walked in the club she noticed that the club’s lighting had a bright reddish-orange color as if they were as flames. As she walked through the club she said, “this aint no CLUB AQUA this look more like CLUB INFERNO!” She noticed that the music she was listening to was very different than what she usually listens to. It sounded like screaming and the sounds of people crying in distress. She then walked towards the middle of the club and saw legions of spirits dancing around a dead body. So she said out of curiosity, “what is goin on over there?” No one answered her. So she walked closer to the body and screamed, “are yall crazy why are yall dancing around this girl can’t you see something’s wrong with her, somebody needs to get her some help!” They ignored her. She forced her way through the legions of these spirits and saw that it was her own corpses and the demons were rejoicing that they had yet deceived another soul. Her soul. Tracy had died in her coma due to alcohol poisoning. While at the club she had too many drinks and was mixing all types of alcohol from the light liquors to the dark liquors. Her dream she thought she was having was actually her death. She cried her eyes out in shame but the demons continued to laugh at her while dragging her to hell.
Michael sat in his room staring at the walls still thinking about what the pastor said until he fell asleep. All of a sudden he felt an evil and unfamiliar spirit hovering over him. He didn’t notice the spirit was there until the spirit held him down with great force, covered his mouth to prevent him from hollering and the evil and unfamiliar spirit instantaneously carried him off to hell. Upon his arrival, Michael was placed in a large, swallowing, and extremely dark cell. The only light there was that of the flames. That same evil and unfamiliar spirit came into Michael’s cell and began torture him. The demon through him against the wall while eating his flesh off of his skin then breaking many bones in his body. Then the demon, with his claws tore open Michael’s abdomen and started pull out his intestines. Michael, battered dreadfully, smelled a stench of burning and decaying flesh. The smell and the screams there were unbearable. The demon slowly led him to the lake of fire and brimstone; Michael stared in fear and in deep sorrow because he saw both Antwan and Tracy burning and deteriorating all at once. Their flesh fell off their bones until there was nothing left. As he watched his friends in agony, Antwan said to him while he were suffering excruciatingly , “ take the pastors advice cause we don’t have a chance anymore to get our lives together but you do. Go warn everyone that this place is real so they won’t have to come here and suffer for eternity. The devil and his angles used us and deceived us by the stupid choices we made just so they can have more people down here burning with them!” Michael woke up at that very moment sweating bullets and breathing as though he was breathless. That following Sunday Michael ran to church and to the alter and got saved. He began to tell the story of his friends and the dream he had. This could be you if your decisions cost you your life and who you decide to serve as your Master: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mathew 8:36…. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15

The First Black Soutnern Mayor,1963

Maynard Jackson was an ingenious man that rescinded through the wiles of adversity. In this time period the civil rights movement was over but still a process for the south to get used to. By me being from Georgia it really makes me feel proud about where I'm from because Georgia has so much potent history behind it. I know that Mayor Jackson had to battle with the castigation and the cravenness of racism to achieve his accomplishment. He had to be very audacious and wanted to amalgamate the Atlanta community. He knew he would have obstacles but because he knew he could make change, he did not worry about what lied ahead of him; he only concentrated on how he can get there. Could you imagine being apart of history as being known as "The First Black Southern Mayor?" (eyes on the prize). That meant that he was the first African American in the whole southern states to hold a political position as mayor. In his honor the Hartsfield International Airport, in Atlanta,GA, has been renamed Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Even with the name change there were many people who disagreed with the honoring of the name change. Many tried to fight to have his named removed but then there were huge amount of others advocating to keep it and because they fought for the right cause his name is now permanent.

The Last Lynching

The Last Lynching was such a lugubrious and a time of antipathy during the Lynching Era. The Lynching Era occurred in the years 1921 until the year of 1963; which was a fifty year period. The Last Lynching, aired on the discovery channel, was about the era in which lynching was practiced. In the time of the lynching era if you were black you had a strike against you especially if you were black and a man you had two strikes against you. It is very hard to look at how the blacks were treated in those terrible times. The ku klux klan did not a have any remorse of who their next victim would be. Sadly some of the victims would be women. For example, the Rosewood masscre, Levy County. This was the story of which "a little white lie" led to a genocide of the black community of Rosewood, FL. Prayerfully many fled on a train of safety to Gainesville, FL. Fannie Taylor was the woman who came running out of her house proclaimed a black man came to her house in the morning and raped and beat her. Her lie spreaded like a conflagration and because of that men, women, children and babies were brutally murdered. These cravern lynching mobs would lynch African Americans due to false accusations regarding the law, to prohibit blacks from voting and participating in politics, and to put fear in their hearts. This documentary was an eye opener because this made me think about the people who were lynched just for standing up for a cause as little as sitting in a restaurant just so I can receive the same service as a white counterpart. I believe that all of our black males and females should have watched this viewing because we have seemed to have lost the pride and value of ourselves even when it was involuntarily taken away from us. It even showed how they would lynch us for our nature and race; most of the times it was for recreation. Where did you think the words "picnic " and "barbecue" were depicted from; pick-a-nigger and they would literally tie down their victim set them on fire and watch them burn for fun. They would even use these vivid scene on post card to send to their families in different areas. Today you don't see the kkk's as dominant as before, not saying they are wiped off the face of the earth; but we are still holding their legacy to genocide our own race. So they just sit back and watch what they have created in their efforts of white supremacy, to see the race they tried to destroy, kill each other. Could you imagine your husband, father, brother, son or even your mother being lynched because of our gender and their race? Hard to imagine. So let us not forget where we came from and the lives that were laid down so that we can have the opportunities they fought for us to have.

The Lynching of Michael Donald

Michael Donald would have never gone to get those cigarettes for his sister if he knew his life would suddenly end like it did. The paroxysm of his death was that of angry men. Michael Donald was born on July 24, 1961 and was maliciously murdered by Klansman. It all started with the trial of Josephus Andersonan. He was an African American who was convicted of murdering a white police officer in Mobile, Alabama; in which the case was acquitted.This was in the year of 1981. This really vexed the members of the ku klux klan. They figured if a black man could get away with murder so can a white man. One particular night Michael Donald was walking back from the store from buying his sister a pack of cigarettes when two white men feignly asking Michael for directions to a restaurant. As Michael approached the car, James Knowles pulled out his pistol to Michael's head and told him to get in the car. The Klansman depredatedly found their next victim. As Michael advocated for his life about how he's the only one to provide a source of income for his mom and offering to give them the little money that he had;the two unmoving denied his appeal. They took him to the nearest woods and beat him tire sly; Michael, only trying to fight for his life. When they noticed just beating him alone would not work, they slit his throat multiple times then lynched him ; across the street from James Knowles' house. When his mother heard what had happened to her son she took justice into her own hands. She took the murderers to trial. Henry Hays was executed and James Knowles is serving a life sentence by testifying against Henry Hays. Michael's mother was rewarded 7 million dollars from the United Kl ans of America. Belau Mae was able to buy her first home and later died. In remembrance of Michael Donald, a street was named after him.

Southern School Desegregation

We all should know how the noisome Jim Crow laws were in the South and how desegregation was important to the African American race. When I think about desegregation in the south, Little Rock nine comes to my mind. There were nine students who wanted to go to a better school that offered better opportunities. The only problem was that the school were predominately white. In those times blacks could not attend the same schools as whites. Intransigently, with the ignorance of racism, a selected bunch did not want anyone except of their own kind to attend their schools. When the nine students who were far from being pusillanimous, maybe nervous, walked in that school for a purpose; to get a better education. Sadly, only one out those nine students remained anomalous about being the average African American who usually only having completed the eighth grade. This inspires me because not everyone who says they're for you are with you. You may have to travel some roads alone but in the end you'll notice that, that person or path was not for you in the first place. I value my education because not many people have this opportunity to get a college education. So I leave you with one of my quotes: An outstanding person stands out.