Tonight I was reading a post by freerangemom and decided to read the article that was the basis for which she wrote about Politics and Religion. As I read I thought about how really ignorant so many people are and my biggest fear is that many of them are likely “Christians”. Now I have my thoughts on the term “Christians” and for many years now have called myself a “believer, doer and follower of the Word” because I just don’t see, overall, how so many people who say they are Christian and claim to love can harbor such hatred over issues they really don’t get.

Ok, so this posts is not about being a Christian, it is about what I read, so let me get on with it.

Today was historic day. Whether you are Democrat or Republican, left, right or somewhere in between the fact that an African American man received the Democratic Nomination for President is HUGE!

As an African American woman I am elated at the prospect of Barack being President. There was at time when, sadly, this would not be. My mother, father, grandparents, and ancestors could not vote but they could clean toilets and pick cotton. Often degraded and called names that were simply asinine and not at all godly, as this country claimed to stand on -you know “In God We Trust”- African Americans endured the atrocity of slavery that went beyond the Emancipation Proclamation. Our promise of Freedom was short lived. Even today we fight a fight that just should not be.

Deny if you will but I live it everyday of my life.

Your family can learn some valuable lessons if they listen to the wisdom of mom. No, mom is not always right, but we see some things that others may not quite get. Let me share with you a few examples of how the men in my home have learned, when momma speaks, it helps to pay attention.

My four year old has a fascination with our cat, Roadie. So much that he would pet and pick at the kitty until he would just run under the coffee table and hop on top of box that Brehane could not reach. I would tell Brehane daily to leave the cat alone. But he is so hardheaded, he often has to learn on his own.