Comments on: Remembering Emancipation http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/01/the-emancipation-proclamation On Point is a live, two-hour morning news-analysis program, produced by WBUR 90.9 and NPR. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:41:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carole Copeland Thomas http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/01/the-emancipation-proclamation/comment-page-1#comment-8817 Carole Copeland Thomas Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:08:10 +0000 http://www.onpointradio.org/?p=13449#comment-8817 Very good show today. It was surprising to learn that Professor Medford had never attended a Watch Night Service. I am a fifth generation member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,(AME) one of the oldest black denominations in the US, and Watch Night services date back to that Civil War era. (The AME church was founded in the late 1700s.) Yes, there might be other cultural and ethnic connections to the tradition, but the black church has paid homage to the Watch Night tradition for 146 years. -Carole Copeland Thomas, MBA Diversity Professional C. Thomas & Associates www.TellCarole.com Very good show today. It was surprising to learn that Professor Medford had never attended a Watch Night Service.

I am a fifth generation member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,(AME) one of the oldest black denominations in the US, and Watch Night services date back to that Civil War era. (The AME church was founded in the late 1700s.)
Yes, there might be other cultural and ethnic connections to the tradition, but the black church has paid homage to the Watch Night tradition for 146 years.

-Carole Copeland Thomas, MBA
Diversity Professional
C. Thomas & Associates http://www.TellCarole.com

]]> By: Scott Legendre http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/01/the-emancipation-proclamation/comment-page-1#comment-8814 Scott Legendre Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:09:22 +0000 http://www.onpointradio.org/?p=13449#comment-8814 I am positive toward our future. Just think about our modern, politically correct but equally corrupt ongoing emancipation struggle. Illegal aliens working at reduced wages and zero tax, the WTO and jobs moving overseas, this is nothing more than a kinder, gentler, modern version of the past. Yes, I am optimistic because I see things changing in America. 2008 was an incredible year, positive and negative. I prefer to look at the positives that have come. We have witnessed an American electorate who was finally fed up with the status quo. An American electorate who realized hypocracy when they saw it. We have witnessed the final effects of trickle down economics and realized that real change was desperately needed. America realized that change was more important than money and big business. For the first time in my adult life, we have voted for people, for the individual. For the first time in my adult life, we didn't care about race because there was a much bigger issue involved. Monetary gain and big business has taken a back burner and are realing in our wake, in our new-found power and strength. Yes, the pendulum has swung and this is a good thing. I remain optimistic that President Obama will at least deliver part of the dream he has given me. I pray he works on legislation that will continue to empower the individual. Legislation that continues to destroy multi-national corporations and big business. Any bank or institution too big to fail, is too big to survive. We need legislation that empowers the individual through the creation of homeowner owned power generation and the reselling of that electricity back into the grid at retail price for the homeowner. We need massive funding for geothermal heating in northern climates to free ourselves from foreign oil. This would be the best money spent against tyranic middle-eastern rulers who also keep their people powerless. We need to empower the individual, not multinational corporations and I see this happening already through the collapse of our economy and the closing of so many large corporations. I live in Vermont and enjoy the local CSA for farm vegetables and beef. I enjoy food that I remember as a kid before multi-nationals took over our food supply and filled it with chemicals. I burn bio-fuel in my pellet furnace. It is locally produced as well. I do these things while enjoying a cheaper and better lifestyle. I too am now proud of America because we have finally stood up and rejected the former American consumer attitude. We finally realized we were slaves to the multi-nationals, consumer slaves to the man who is now too big to fall yet is falling anyway. We are living in a different world than we were just a year ago and I finally can be optimistic because the direction we are now going in, is a good one. I am positive toward our future. Just think about our modern, politically correct but equally corrupt ongoing emancipation struggle. Illegal aliens working at reduced wages and zero tax, the WTO and jobs moving overseas, this is nothing more than a kinder, gentler, modern version of the past. Yes, I am optimistic because I see things changing in America. 2008 was an incredible year, positive and negative.

I prefer to look at the positives that have come. We have witnessed an American electorate who was finally fed up with the status quo. An American electorate who realized hypocracy when they saw it. We have witnessed the final effects of trickle down economics and realized that real change was desperately needed. America realized that change was more important than money and big business. For the first time in my adult life, we have voted for people, for the individual. For the first time in my adult life, we didn’t care about race because there was a much bigger issue involved. Monetary gain and big business has taken a back burner and are realing in our wake, in our new-found power and strength. Yes, the pendulum has swung and this is a good thing.

I remain optimistic that President Obama will at least deliver part of the dream he has given me. I pray he works on legislation that will continue to empower the individual. Legislation that continues to destroy multi-national corporations and big business. Any bank or institution too big to fail, is too big to survive.

We need legislation that empowers the individual through the creation of homeowner owned power generation and the reselling of that electricity back into the grid at retail price for the homeowner. We need massive funding for geothermal heating in northern climates to free ourselves from foreign oil. This would be the best money spent against tyranic middle-eastern rulers who also keep their people powerless. We need to empower the individual, not multinational corporations and I see this happening already through the collapse of our economy and the closing of so many large corporations. I live in Vermont and enjoy the local CSA for farm vegetables and beef. I enjoy food that I remember as a kid before multi-nationals took over our food supply and filled it with chemicals. I burn bio-fuel in my pellet furnace. It is locally produced as well. I do these things while enjoying a cheaper and better lifestyle.

I too am now proud of America because we have finally stood up and rejected the former American consumer attitude. We finally realized we were slaves to the multi-nationals, consumer slaves to the man who is now too big to fall yet is falling anyway. We are living in a different world than we were just a year ago and I finally can be optimistic because the direction we are now going in, is a good one.

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