Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Charles Duplessis on Pat Robertson

LeDayne sent around this note:

"I happened to be in New Orleans this weekend at a CSC (Churches Supporting Churches) meeting — and stayed for worship at Mount Nebo Bible Baptist in the Ninth Ward. As you might imagine, the people of New Orleans feel very deeply the pain of the people of Haiti, having experienced so much of the same pain themselves.

"Mount Nebo’s Pastor Charles Duplessis (one of my favorite people in the world) -- did a brilliant piece in his sermon about Pat Robertson’s nonsense — layering Pat’s comments with Matthew 25."

What did you do for me when I was sick, grieving, buried under the rubble, naked, hungry?

Well, Lord, I condemned you in the national press, of course.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Today in Caribbean History

New Year's Day marks the remembrance of two significant events in Caribbean History--Haitian Independence Day and Cuban Liberation Day.

On 1 January 1804, following history's first and only successful slave rebellion, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti's independence, making Haiti the second independent country in the Western Hemisphere and the first Black Republic in the world. Today, Haitians throughout Haiti and the Haitian diaspora will eat soup joumou (squash stew) in remembrance of this momentous event.

On 1 January 1959, Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro succeeded in wresting power from right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista. Today marks the 51st anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.