Little Rock Nine with God In Mind

Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:21 -- alegrah

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20772
United States
38° 47' 32.262" N, 76° 45' 24.2532" W

Why think about separation?

When Jesus stood on the cross, his purpose was without discrimination.

Think about the nine children and what they had gone through, it reminds me of Jesus how each nail was pressed through.

Those children were spit on and defined as unimportant.

How would you feel if Jesus left you after a disease had been transported.

Now you’re starting to understand how each walk they took was with the help of holding Gods hand.

Police escort to get them in…. everybody saying they didn’t fit in.

The whites laughed at them and made so many threats, but how would you feel if God left you out on the deck?

Some held there head up high, but with shades to cover the fear in their eye.

It wasn’t only verbal pain, no physical too….this is no joke it was just lame what they went through.
1957 entering the school, all the whites thinking Governor Orval was a fool.

Guards had to escort them to class because white children were fast….to be negative, but for what? God is never negative to what you try and shut.

They pressed through it all for their education, but in school we act a fool …what do you want a standing ovation?

Why can’t we act right? All they wanted was their rights.

They made an effort to get done what they can, but we can’t even sit and raise our hands.

This stuff sounds simple, but yet we make it complicated.

The hatred remarks were just devastating.

Each event in history ….has a lesson to be learned.

Think about what you do to your school geek or the people you call freaks.

Think about when you’re disrupting your class or trying to grow up fast.

Think about when you skip school … it’s funny how you think that’s cool.

You have people before you who did what was right, so you can learn with no struggle or fights.

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