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Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley Set
Russell Wilson And Ciara Pledge $500K Annually To Colorado Non-Profits
To Become Marines’ First Black
Four-Star General
Wilson announced the partnership on Monday while surrounded by a crowd of about 100 people outside Littleton Adventist Hospital. The partnership is aimed at providing investments to- wards health equity, educa- tion, food security, social justice, and supporting chil- dren through Centura’s Health Equity and Advance- ment Fund, KDVR reports.
The Denver Broncos quar- terback is proud to help am- plify the state’s nonprofits in a monumental way.
“Day one of training camp is tomorrow, which it will be fun, but I think what’s really exciting is day one of just making an impact here,” Wilson said. “It’s what I’m really excited about. That’s
Lt. Gen. Michael E. Lang- ley could become the first Black four-star general in the Marines’ 246-year history after being nominated to lead all U.S. mili- tary forces in Africa.
The Washington Post re- ported that Langley will become the Chief of U. S. Africa Com- mand if he is confirmed by the Senate Thursday. The confirma- tion would make him the only Black man to become a four-star general, something more than 70 white men have accomplished in the Marines’ history.
Black men have attained four- star general status in the Army, Navy, and Air Force, however when it comes to the Marines, a handful of Black men have been named three-star generals, but Black service members saw no one who looked like them in the top leadership positions of the Marines and many wondered whether it would ever happen.
“As you looked at the horizon, you saw the end,” retired Lt. Gen. Walter Gaskin, the fourth Black man to be elevated
RUSSELL WILSON AND CIARA
LT. GEN. MICHAEL E. LANGLEY
to a three-star general, told the Post. “You didn’t see what was over the horizon because no one was there.”
Langley’s career is an illus- trious one. The powerlifter has served in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Japan. He has held top jobs at the Pentagon and led U. S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa. He currently oversees Marine forces on the East coast. Additionally, he set records for how many training courses he wrote and was frequently tapped to mediate workplace disputes.
what really life is about.” “Yes, it’s about the Super- bowl trophies and Lomabardies, those matter,” he continued. “But what mat- ters most is life, human life, human connection, and how
do we do that better.” Centura and the Why Not
You Foundation will work to- gether to choose grant recip- ients, 9 News reports. The
first recipient, College Track, was announced on Monday and presented with a check for $100,000.
“What a blessing to start something new and to be here with amazing people who have an even greater cause,” Wilson told the crowd. “At our foundation, we’re so passionate about making a difference.”
Black Twitter Reacts To Plies
Retweeting Controversial Comment
From Bishop T. D. Jakes, ‘We Are
Raising Up Women To Be Men’
The hip-hop artist Plies is courting controversy after re- posting part of a controversial sermon from Bishop T.D. Jakes.
On his Twitter account, the rapper reacted to a specific sec- tion of Jakes’s sermon where he stated, “We are raising up women to be men!”
The preacher goes on to say that women are “applauded in the contemporary society by how tough, rough, nasty, mean, aggressive, hateful, possessive you are and you’re climbing the corporate ladder, but we’re los- ing our families,” Sis2Sis re- ports.
He tells women to “stop bragging about how much you don’t need me and wonder why I shy away.”
The video and sermon Plies retweeted took place at The Potter’s House in Dallas last month on Father’s Day. As Jakes said in his sermon that Sunday, “If Adam had not al- lowed Eve to pour into him, sin would have never come into the world. Sin came into the world because Adam broke the order. We were not designed to receive from women. Your self-esteem is compromised when you have to ask your wife for lunch money.”
With the aforementioned statement, Jakes seemingly places the blame for the intro- duction of sin on Eve. In hold-
PLIES
ing on to the notion of the ser- mon of real men pouring in, he does state that because “he stopped pouring,” Adam “al- lowed the curse” of sinning to take place.
“And Adam, all of a sudden, has allowed the curse to come because he stopped pouring.”
The Bishop threw another dart by saying, “The conversa- tion has become, ‘Let’s prove to the men how dispensable they are.’ And it is born out of pain ’cause we hurt you, and be- trayed you, and lied to you and cheated to you, and you came like you became out of pain. But watch what is born out of pain.”
With Plies stating he is pre- pared to use the sermon in his next song, some users had something to say to him regard- ing the message Jakes is shar- ing with his congregation. Messages were mixed as some agreed with Jakes’s words, while others lambasted the pas- tor for his train of thought.
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