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America,” he posited. “The cost
of freedom is for standing up
and saying something.
“Protections are not in place
for us,” he asserted. “There are
mothers who will not be reunited
with their children.”
He was, clearly, alluding to
the Trump administration’s
“Zero Tolerance” policy of separating
children from their parents
at the southern border
with Mexico.
Rev. Duncan — a former
convict and erstwhile alcoholic,
who claims that he has been
sober for over a decade — said
repentance, reparation and
reconciliation are three pertinent
pre-requisites for Black’s
freedom.
“I’m scared every time someone
shows a video of one of us
being gunned down,” he said,
adding that Black lives are constantly
devalued.
In spite of this, he lamented
that “many of our churches
refuse to take the ‘Halls of
Justice.’ ”
“God is the God of the
oppressed,” Rev. Duncan said.
“God intervenes in human
affairs to liberate people.
“The cost of freedom right
now is very high in America,”
Rev. Duncan added. “These are
abnormal times, with abnormal
leaders. But we have to
keep our eyes on the ball. Nothing
is more important than our
freedom.”
In contrast to Apostle Bonadie
and Rev. Duncan’s views,
Bramble shared two different
perspectives as a retired US
Army Reserve officer and nursing
administrator.
“One has a very high cost for
freedom, the other, a low cost,”
she said.
She said freedom means
many things to many people,
adding, however, that freedom
comes with a cost — “whether
it is personal, political or
national.”
At the same time, Bramble
said the cost of freedom cannot
always be measured in dollars,
“not even millions or billions
of dollars.”
She said the desire for freedom
is one of the strongest
desires of the human soul.
“Great men and even not
so great men, over the centuries
and all over the world,
have given their very lives and
fortunes for this desire,” said
Bramble, pointing out that
freedom was, among others,
the desire of Hebrew slaves in
Egypt; the Babylonian captives;
the Pilgrims in early America;
America’s founding fathers; the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.; Mahatma Gandhi; Nelson
Mandela; and Black slaves in
American History.
“The lives of people who
fought to give us freedom and
to keep us free, those lives do
constitute a high cost.,” she
said.
On the other hand, Bramble
said “workplace freedom “has a
low cost but a high return on
investment (ROI).”
She said the ROI for workforce
freedom is high, “because
productivity and profitability
improve in a workplace that
has more freedom.”
Bramble recommended four
measures in promoting freedom
in the workplace: “Accept
that other ways exist to get the
job done; educate employees on
the new ways of doing things
and give them the skills they
need to operate in such an
environment; give them the
information they need to do
the best job they can; (and)
stop micromanaging.”
Retired US Army Reserve
Colonel and Nursing Administrator
Celia Bramble
speaks at Black History
Month debate.
Photo by Nelson A. King
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