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Faith And Oppression

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This photograph represents Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (KJV) All of us in this photograph are Christian Women who grew up in the church. This was my mother and grandmother dream of us being educated women, now it has surpassed all their hopes and dreams. The reason I believe is because God is a big God. God will show you a life bigger than yourself. As student affairs professional, developing students, it will be my responsibility to make sure each student realized that social justice is all our responsibility. When one of us is oppressed we all our oppressed. Life is not about just me it is about all of us. Faith and God or in something bigger than yourself will play a very important role when life get difficult and sometimes it will. For me trusting in something bigger than myself like God gives me hope in the tough times in life when I feel more oppressed than privileged. In America the freedom to worship God openly is a privilege. …show more content…

Being able to vote in the November elections is unearned. I also realized that I can be both privilege and oppressed at the same time. I am privileged to be a woman and oppressed for being a woman. I am privileged to be an African American at the same time oppressed for being an African American. I am privileged to break the stereotypes that woman should not go to college and that African American are lazy and not smart. By being an educated African American, Christian woman. I learned that as I become aware of privileges, as well as differences, it will help me in developing students in the student affairs

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