Tribute To John Henry McAfee
A tribute poem to my paternal Great Grandfather53 total reviews
Comment from Pamusart
Hi, BOO. How the hell are you? I know I owe you some responses to your reviews. I just haven't had time to get to them because I've been writing and reading in order to get cent pumps and cash so that I could post one every three days. But eventually, I'll get to them and I thank you for yours
My great great great grandfather was Sam Houston. Houston Texas is named after him
I have mixed feelings about him because he inherited some slaves from his father. I.credit him for freeing them all of them.
He was thrown out of Congress and could not run for governor because they had an anti-slavery stance
Once his political career was over because of his stance on slavery, he went and lived with Indians. I'm not sure what tribe but he may have children too. They are my relatives.
You're a great grandfather was just as brave as Harriet Tubman, and some others that led slaves to the Underground Railroad.
It was brave or refusing to be sold. Do you know if he was sold. Or if his actions prevented him from being sold. Maybe he had children on the same plantation where he was he didn't wanna leave them. The white slave owners Did not care about how he felt, or his children felt or what his wife felt
It.sounds Like your great grandfather was a brave and determined man. I bet he studied English and math while he was a slave
After he became a free man It appears that he accumulated property. Which will make him a very smart man.
So he has all these traits determination and rebellion
I wonder how your great grandfather and others felt that day in 1865 when they became free. It must've been a glorious day. The only problem is the Ku Klux Klan got together, then rained holy terror on Black people.
Then you have Jim Crow. A black man couldn't even look a white man in the face without risking a lynching.
I've seen photos of a white family having a picnic. And three blacks who were lynched were right there. And a little girl is looking at them with a smile. She doesn't know any better but she could've taught better.
Oh, don't get me started. My husband was a civil rights worker and he fought for a quality for his entire life but he worked for Martin Luther King as a civil rights worker in 1965. King knew he was going to be assassinated. He told my husband that then he said his life wouldn't be in vain. And then he said if you die doing this. Your life won't be in vain
His job was to integrate restaurants and register Black people to vote. Those who agreed to vote are the braveedr people you'll ever know because they had to live there they couldn't escape like
my husband.
They'd go into restaurants, two blacks and two whites
If the restaurant owner would not serve the Black people, then my husband would notify the authorities and a lawsuit would be created against them, and they would be forced integrate or go out of business. But that doesn't mean a few blacks weren't lynched because of that.
Don't get me going I have fought for equality for a long time. It makes me tired. It makes me sick. It makes me sad.
I enjoyed reading your book
Good job. Thank you for sharing.
reply by the author on 22-Jul-2024
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Hi, BOO. How the hell are you? I know I owe you some responses to your reviews. I just haven't had time to get to them because I've been writing and reading in order to get cent pumps and cash so that I could post one every three days. But eventually, I'll get to them and I thank you for yours
My great great great grandfather was Sam Houston. Houston Texas is named after him
I have mixed feelings about him because he inherited some slaves from his father. I.credit him for freeing them all of them.
He was thrown out of Congress and could not run for governor because they had an anti-slavery stance
Once his political career was over because of his stance on slavery, he went and lived with Indians. I'm not sure what tribe but he may have children too. They are my relatives.
You're a great grandfather was just as brave as Harriet Tubman, and some others that led slaves to the Underground Railroad.
It was brave or refusing to be sold. Do you know if he was sold. Or if his actions prevented him from being sold. Maybe he had children on the same plantation where he was he didn't wanna leave them. The white slave owners Did not care about how he felt, or his children felt or what his wife felt
It.sounds Like your great grandfather was a brave and determined man. I bet he studied English and math while he was a slave
After he became a free man It appears that he accumulated property. Which will make him a very smart man.
So he has all these traits determination and rebellion
I wonder how your great grandfather and others felt that day in 1865 when they became free. It must've been a glorious day. The only problem is the Ku Klux Klan got together, then rained holy terror on Black people.
Then you have Jim Crow. A black man couldn't even look a white man in the face without risking a lynching.
I've seen photos of a white family having a picnic. And three blacks who were lynched were right there. And a little girl is looking at them with a smile. She doesn't know any better but she could've taught better.
Oh, don't get me started. My husband was a civil rights worker and he fought for a quality for his entire life but he worked for Martin Luther King as a civil rights worker in 1965. King knew he was going to be assassinated. He told my husband that then he said his life wouldn't be in vain. And then he said if you die doing this. Your life won't be in vain
His job was to integrate restaurants and register Black people to vote. Those who agreed to vote are the braveedr people you'll ever know because they had to live there they couldn't escape like
my husband.
They'd go into restaurants, two blacks and two whites
If the restaurant owner would not serve the Black people, then my husband would notify the authorities and a lawsuit would be created against them, and they would be forced integrate or go out of business. But that doesn't mean a few blacks weren't lynched because of that.
Don't get me going I have fought for equality for a long time. It makes me tired. It makes me sick. It makes me sad.
I enjoyed reading your book
Good job. Thank you for sharing.
Comment Written 21-Jul-2024
reply by the author on 22-Jul-2024
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Thank you. i ahve much to tell you about civil rights and struggle. In 1961 I was served in Oklahoma City at a restaurant that did not serve black people. The only condition was my being willing to eat in the kitchen. No problem, I had eaten in my mom's kitchen for my entire life. I have a poem that details that incident. I cannot remember if it is still in my portfolio or not, I may have removed it because it will be included in some other work I am planning.
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I wrote a poem about my husbands civil rights work
It is called. Rugsy
A freedom fighter
Comment from bob cullen
What a simply amazing write. And historically accurate. To me, this is the foundation stone of an amazing book, or TV series, (though I guess Roots) pretty much told this story. Nomi338, it must be a great source of pride to know your family can be traced back to such great early Americans. I would love to learn more about your ancestors.
reply by the author on 22-Jul-2024
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What a simply amazing write. And historically accurate. To me, this is the foundation stone of an amazing book, or TV series, (though I guess Roots) pretty much told this story. Nomi338, it must be a great source of pride to know your family can be traced back to such great early Americans. I would love to learn more about your ancestors.
Comment Written 21-Jul-2024
reply by the author on 22-Jul-2024
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Thank you very much. I can actually go back further that that. My great grandmother Lucy, John Henry's wife, was the grand daughter of her mother's white slave owning father.
Comment from Carol Clark2
You have told an interesting story in rhyme. Great job in rhyming Madagascar! It is good that some of your great grandfather's land remains as a memorial to your family members. Thanks for sharing. Blessings. Carol
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reply by the author on 22-Jul-2024
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You have told an interesting story in rhyme. Great job in rhyming Madagascar! It is good that some of your great grandfather's land remains as a memorial to your family members. Thanks for sharing. Blessings. Carol
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Comment Written 21-Jul-2024
reply by the author on 22-Jul-2024
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Thank you for your kind review comments.
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Thanks for sharing your story. I enjoyed reading it. Have a blessed week. Carol
