Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

Since this is the last week in the only month of the year that we set aside to acknowledge and celebrate our many accomplishments, I thought it would be fitting that I shared a poem that reaches back to a time before we were reduced to what we have become. It should be pointed out that OUR HISTORY did not begin when we were brought to these shores in chains to be made slaves. That is HIS STORY which only depicts what we have achieved in HIS world despite the discrimination, oppression and brutality we were and continue to be subjected to. So, just in case some may not know about the God-like (...