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    All Folks Were Created Equal: Views from the Back of the Bus
    All Folks Were Created Equal: Views from the Back of the Bus
    All Folks Were Created Equal: Views from the Back of the Bus
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    All Folks Were Created Equal: Views from the Back of the Bus

    By Melvia f. Miller

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    all folks were created equal was written to be read, enjoyed and to foster cultural awareness. The exercises make education fun and can help create miracles in the lives of readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 22, 2002
    ISBN9781475912036
    All Folks Were Created Equal: Views from the Back of the Bus
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    Melvia f. Miller

    Author Melvia Miller has become fondly known as "the soulful dr. seuss" because of her ability to tell stories in rhyme?relative to important issues, such as social justice.

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      All Folks Were Created Equal - Melvia f. Miller

      © 2002 by Melvia Miller

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by

      any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying,

      recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without

      the written permission of the publisher.

      Writers Club Press

      an imprint of iUniverse, Inc.

      For information address:

      iUniverse, Inc.

      2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100

      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      Any resemblance to actual people and events is purely coincidental.

      ISBN: 0-595-23548-4

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-1203-6 (ebook)

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      FOREWORD

      A COLLECTION OF POEMS

      NEW & DIFFERENT FRIENDS

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, EXERCISES AND GAMES

      RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

      ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE:

      ABOUTTHEAUTHOR

      This book is

      dedicated to my 2 wonderful sons, Malik and Mikal, who have been the light and delight of my life. My sons are very special people and will receive most of the benefits, proceeds and honors derived from the sales of my books. I could not have accomplished the completion of this book without my 2 sons.

      THANKS

      A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY WONDERFUL MOTHER AND FATHER for raising me. My mother is a very special woman who has a great big heart and who is the one person in my life that helped me the most. I could not have accomplished this writing project without the help, support and love of all of my many friends. I deeply appreciate all of the people who have assisted me in various ways throughout my life.

      ~Melvia F. Miller

      ###########

      THIS BOOK CONTAINS POEMS BY THE AUTHOR, INSPIRATIONAL WORDS OF WISDOM FROM FAMOUS OUTSTANDING LEADERS,AND A SECTION OF EDUCATIONAL GAMES, EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO IMPROVE SKILLS AND INCREASE CULTURAL AWARENESS.

      Wake up everybody…time to teach a new way… no more backward thinking—time for thinking ahead!

      ~ Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes.

      __

      INTRODUCTION

      A WISE OLD NATIVE AMERICAN (Indian) SAGE WAS ONCE ASKED TO EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF INNER CONFLICTS WE ALL EXPERIENCE…

      He stated….’"There are 2 sides inside of all of us…just like 2 dogs.

      One dog is nice and kind.

      The other dog is mean & cruel.

      The mean dog is always fighting against the kind dog."

      THEN THE WISE OLD MAN WAS ASKED…

      which dog wins??

      HE REPLIED…The one that I feed the most.

      ~ Melvia Miller

      FOREWORD

      by Cynth’ya Lewis Reed

      Regardless of who you are, or who you pretend to be, there is a common denominator to all of these stations in life. All Folks Are Created Equal is a culmination of Melvia Miller’s person- al and professional observations. She is an amazing author who splendidly exercises every opportunity to bring to life her first amendment rights. My colleague and friend is exclusively dedicated to helping her readers discover the common denominator of what it takes to be equal, and for us to discov- er our own specialness without being penalized for being different among waves of indifference.

      Who are you? A government mandated social security number? Are you a closet racist in support of eliminating affirmative action because you cannot deal with the fact that this nation was built on lies and innocent blood of Native Americans and African prisoners in the name of eco- nomic greed?

      Or are you a single parent struggling on a single income, perhaps no income at all, and no support from social service agencies that adhere to illogical rules, thus creating roadblocks and potholes in your journey on the road of life?

      Again, I ask, who are you?

      Are you a self-appointed religious or social leader who would preach vain words that sooth politically correct tone-deaf ears as opposed to the searing truth that both stings and heals? Maybe you wear the psychological garment of CEO, or perhaps you denim overalls of the blue-collar slave as you are sacrificed to ritualistic corporate mergers, sell-outs, and layoffs, all in the tarnished name of the thankless companies that enjoy global success, all because of those stuck in the ghettos and trailer parks of America.

      Perhaps you are a straight-laced, straight-A college student lacking life experience and mentorship. Maybe you are the undiscovered genius that dropped out of high school because the educational system could not and would not challenge or motivate you enough to recognize your special abilities, no thanks to public school budgets. Maybe you blame burnt-out, less than passionate, so-called professional educators who feel like losers themselves, and everyone was so busy whining about their own problems that no one took the time to understand you, but didn’t hesitate to cut you loose and brand you hopeless. And let’s sup- pose you are a nursing home resident, a prisoner of a judicially imposed plantation. Are you homeless, or close to being homeless?

      By reading this book, know that the Spirit has moved. And the Spirit is not happy with America’s leadership. Equality is not a commodity to be bargained. Equality is a birthright. And equality unfortunately in the United States of America must be pursued continually. Only we ourselves can choose to believe a demonic lie that some of us are not created equal.

      As long as there are entities striving to seek power and control by obstructing fairness in justice, as long as jealousy and greed remain, there will never be a point in history where everyone at the same time will be equal. There will never be a definition that all of the leaders who inhabit the seven continents of the earth can agree upon when it comes to one universal definition of equality. Melvia’s observations alone are reason enough for people to continue implementing ways to achieve diversity in the private and public sectors of American life, and to achieve it by any and all means peaceful and necessary.

      Change comes only after frustration and irritation. Complacence smothers change. Change for the better doesn’t take hundreds of years if people only take a minute to think about the repercussions or the advantages of what to do the next minute. Author and internationally renown speaker Willie Jolley says it best in his New York Times best sell- er, It Only Takes A Minute To Change Your Life by stating: The minute, invested wisely or wasted foolishly, is the great equalizer."

      If enough people do the right thing, at the right time, the duplication of the actions taken in those minutes has the power to change history, because history begins to change when those who effect it begin to change their minds. Equality starts in the mind, not in the opinions of the powers that rule.

      No one can choose for you what you want for your life, and you can- not choose for anyone else. But we all can have the same opportunities regardless of politics, religion, race, economics fortitude or frailty. However, until this world becomes perfect, we cannot live our lives based on the interpretation of those who have not lived in our neigh- borhoods, who have not lived in our culture.

      No one, from the United Nations to the City Hall, deserves the right to be given power over the course of events that affect peoples’ lives because they cannot understand what it is like to be in a skin that is dif- ferent than their own.

      Equal rights are just as important in the spiritual realm as they are in the physical. We all have equal access to choose or not to choose to believe in a non-human Higher Power who has creative power over all of nature. As for me spiritually, I choose to let the words of Jesus Christ as the Son of God guide my path in life as a non-denominational Christian. I cannot speak for others who do not share the same beliefs, but I am not in a position to tell a person what or what not to believe.

      I exercise my free choice, and part of that involves the results of the benefits and consequences of what I choose to embrace. Principalities of Earth should not be fighting and feuding, in barbaric carnage of other nations because they believe differently, or because we are too impatient to prove their testimony.

      Peace in partnership should be the

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