The Faith Hour with Harriet Cammock

Halloween 2020. What’s that going to be like? In this episode we talk about how to survive the next 10 days and do Halloween, 2020 style. I plan to be #WonderWoman and I think we should all hit up online stores and get our costumes and do Zoom parties trick or treating for whatever the hell these militias are planning. Let’s show them how to have fun, right? Before the elections, lol I don’t know about you, I need a break from the 24 hour news cycles of doom and gloom, geesh

With less than twenty days to go to the November elections, a covid19 positive president is holding rallies that from an outsider’s perspective seem like political suicide; the Michigan Governor who is under attack from domestic terroists and, and a president who continues to fan the flames of domestic terroism with his political rhetoric, endangering the life of the Governor, those around her, and all of us. It seems the President has abdicated the office of the presidency and is living in an alternate reality; like a reality show, where everything works out at the end of sixty minutes. Real life,however is different, no wonder we have chaos.

My guest this morning is Atlanta Film- maker Mackleen Desravines (@yonimackie) on twitter, whose film “Smoke” is currently available on Amazon Prime. The film explores the trial of a Detroit-area man who had killed his pregnant girlfriend, served time in jail was released, married and killed his young children with his new wife. The film maker details why she chose this story.

What an amazing year 2020 has been. So many of us find ourselves fighting depression. How can we get pass this? In this podcast learn of the 7 ways Harriet uses to cope with depression. It’s going to be allright!

Forced sterilization policies targeted minorities and those with disabilities and was widely accepted well into the 20th century. A 1907 Indiana Law informed the Nazi 1933 Third Reich Law on Eugenics. In North Carolina, a state that had the 3rd highest rates of sterilization- 7,600 people from 1929-1973. Eugenics, a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883, applied ides of biology and genetics to human reproduction. Ouch....

A recent study by MIT confirmed what we have always known; that systemic and structured racism exist, even in how much we pay for our mortgages. Black homeowners pay more in mortgage insurance and property taxes than whites do. The result is Blacks have less savings and wealth accumulation than whites

‘You have been tried and found wanting’. Daniel was an Old Testament Prophet. The King, had a dream in which he saw a hand writing words on a wall. Daniel interpreted the dream and the prophecy was fulfilled. Daniel 5:17-30

Storming the Capitol. Instigate a civil war. Abducting a sitting governor ahead of a presidential election. Those were among the plots described by federal and state officials in Michigan on Thursday as they announced terroism, conspiracy and weapons charges against 13 men. At least six of them, officials said,had hatched a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who has been a focal point of anti- government views.

A white male professor from the University of New Hampshire has been booted from the classroom for posing as a ‘woman of color’ the latest in a growing trend of race fakers. Craig Chapman allegedly secretly tweeted under the name The Science Femme and handle @pinney_the to rail against the left, transgender and even people of color to his more than 13,000 followers.

For most Black Americans descended from enslave Africans, there’s no way of tracing back where their ancestors came from. The slave trade ripped families apart, and records from slave ships and plantations often identified enslaved people with multiple or incomplete names. Given this systematic erasure, the story of Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the U.S., occupies a profoundly unique place in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Timothy Meaher, a white Southern planter was the owner of the ship who went to Benin, West Africa to bring Africans back to Alabama to be sold and distributed. Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the ship, realizing they could not go back to Africa after the Civil War, asked Meaher for land to start their own property, and created African Town, 3 miles from downtown Mobile, Alabama and told his story to Zora Neale Hurston. Descendants of Timothy Meaher are alive and well today and are worth close to $55M. Their wealth built upon the backs of enslaved people, whom he used a $20,000 loan to buy .