In a church I no longer attend, one the preachers use to encourage us to read the news everyday. He said once,"How can you help save a world you know nothing about?" He's no longer there, unfortunately, but the lesson for me was reinforced nevertheless. In the 80's & 90's, most of us grew up with parents who were somewhat cognizant of the real issues at hand surrounding their communities and the globe at large. Today's news is racked with so much frivolity and entertainment that the general ...
Posted by Tarus on Thursday, September 16, 2010,
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Did you know that blacks were NOT the first to reside in what's commonly referred to as ...Ghettos?
Originally, the word was used to refer to the poor living spaces set aside for Jews throughout western nations, especially in Russia. It is widely believed that the word itself is a derivative of a word in Venetian vernacular, ghetor or ghet, which means slag - an unwanted byproduct of smelting ore for valuable minerals; supposedly, there was a foundary off one of the islands of Venice in which...
