Bøger af Andre L. Smith

What's your testimony? Every one of God's First Responders had a testimony. Some testimonies were revealed, and some were not. Regardless of their past, they did not give up or stop their God-given assignment. Like people today, we still have God-given assignments, and God is waiting for us to accept it and step into His presence. Regardless of what your past may look like, God can use you. Don't let your past or what you've been through hold you back. Let it motivate you and push you forward. I have been through it, but I didn't let it claim me. You may be one of God's known First Responders, or you may be an Unknown First Responder. Wherever you fall, just know that God can use you. God can use whoever is willing to submit and be used. You may be rejected, talked about, hated on, or not seen as what you are, but God is the creator of all and everything has a purpose. In this book, you will find out that it's not always easy becoming a First Responder, but with God's help you can be used greatly in building and edifying the Kingdom. So, what is your purpose, as a First Responder of God?

No study of Black people in America can be complete without considering how openly discriminatory tax laws helped establish a racial caste system in the United States, how they were designed to exclude blacks from lucrative markets and the voting franchise, and how tax laws extracted and redistributed vast sums of black wealth. Not only was slavery nearly a 100% tax on black labor, so too was Jim Crow apartheid and tax laws specified the peculiar institution as ';negro slavery.' The first instances of affirmative action in the United States were tax laws designed to attract white men to the South. The nineteenth-century Federal Tariff indirectly redistributed perhaps a majority of the profits from slavery from the South to the North and is the principle reason the Confederate states seceded. The only constitutional amendment obtained by the Civil Rights Movement is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment abolishing poll taxes in federal elections. Blending traditional legal theory, neoclassical economics, and a pan-African view of history, these six interrelated essays on race and taxes demonstrate that, even in today's supposedly post-racial society, there is no area of human activity where racial dynamics are absent.