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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Gaston Bachelard -French Philosopher The hurt of the past must subside for the present to be tolerable and the future to be obtainable. We must forgive those who hurt us in the past to walk into our future. Old wounds of the past will never heal if we keep picking the scabs in the present-- it will set up infection in the future. We have overcome much adversity. However, there is still much unresolved animosity. If you want change, be the change. Embrace the freedom and liberty our ancestors did not have that they fought for, and thus paved the way for us to walk in freedom. So many of us are bound in our minds we have forgotten the struggles of the past and stood together to change the course of history, turning a racist and prejudiced society to one of acceptance and tolerance. Maybe because we weren’t there we’ve forgotten how they were whipped, beat, and called names. In essence, everything was done to take their dignity and even their lives. “We shall overcome.” Or have we as a people forgotten? If we have we must remember. Yes, the past hurts. Racism and prejudice still exist, but not with by Anika La Shawn Safi the same intensity they once did. Let’s walk in our freedom. Let’s enjoy one another. Let’s not lose the dignity, honor, and respect, which those before us fought for. Let’s press thru the hate, push thru the animosity, and strive to show generosity to our fellow man. We owe it to them to keep marching in The Future of Black History The Adversity of the Past Leads to Triumph in the Future the victory they began. Let’s keep up their momentum, close the gap, and heal the wounds that have plagued us for generations. Let’s remember our past, embrace our present, and welcome our future. Let’s not let our past hurts, hinder our future joy. If those that have gone on before us were alive today-- those who walked in the turbulent times of yesterday-- where the color of their skin caused them pain, and today, what would we want them to say? I hope they would say: “Look at them, they got it, they understand, that no matter the adversity, you can triumph over the worth it.” Let’s stand for what is right, regardless of color, gender, or creed. Acceptance and tolerance is a must for the advancement of humanity. I say the only way we can change the world is to change ourselves. <strong>OKIE</strong> MAGAZINE www.okiemagazine.com Page 4
Leap Before I tell you what I’ve found out about Leap Year and its history, I’d like to warn you. When I told my editor that I’d write about Leap Year I thought, “This will be a fun and hopefully interesting subject for the interesting, I learned things that I’d never known before but there were times when I had to stop reading about it and walk away. I’m going to try and simplify it as much as possible, but I won’t feel slighted if you need to put it down and come back to it. Now that that is out of the way, let me tell you a little about leap years. This year is election year. Wait, let me start over…this year is a leap year. I remember when I was growing up that if it was leap year, then it was election year. That has nothing to do with the meaning of leap year, but I thought I throw that in there. Leap year was instituted for a pretty basic reason: to keep the calendar even with the solar year. It takes the earth 365.2422 days to make one pass around the sun. It’s the 0.2422 of a day that messes with the calendar. This wouldn’t be a big deal if there weren’t religious and seasonal celebrations that need to occur on certain days on the year. But there are. So, there had to be some sort of system that could be used to keep everything relatively close. Calendar reform came during the time that the Roman Empire was ruling. Roman had taken to adding months to the calendar, Year by Jim Joplin wherever they pleased and for however long, to keep up with the solar year. It was sometime between 305 and 30 B.C. that the Egyptians adopted a leap year system. Cleopatra introduced the leap year to her lover, Julius Caesar, who instituted a single year that was 445 days long, in order to realign the calendar with the solar calendar. The reformed calendar was organized into 12 month and 365 days with a leap year every four years, and was called the Julian calendar. Here’s where it gets a little bumpy. The extra day that was added made it so that every four years there was a discrepancy of 11 minutes per year. What seems like a minor issue, was actually making the Julian So, Pope Gregory XIII, convinced by his astronomers that the Christian holidays were not being celebrated on the correct days, introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Pope Gregory decreed that only one out of every four “century years” would include a leap year. So, while 2000 and 2400 are leap years, 2100, 2200, and 2300 are not. There are three criteria that must be met for a Gregorian calendar to be a leap year. First, it must be evenly divided by 4. Second, if it can be evenly divided by 100, then it isn’t a leap year, unless – Third, the year is evenly divided by 400, at which point the year is a leap year. In the year 2000, around the world. <strong>OKIE</strong> MAGAZINE www.okiemagazine.com Page 4
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