An honest answer from a white American on race relations between white’s and blacks.

 My name is Rick Haynes – President and CEO of China Harvest Ministries located in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. I have a response to Erick Holder the Attorney General’s comment on “Americans are Cowards when it comes to talking about race.”

 I don’t usually write about these issues but I feel I must speak out this time. Most Americans don’t have a bully pulpit to speak our minds like Hollywood stars or Politicians. Most of us just try to get along and not rock the boat.

 

I do not believe it is Mr. Holders place to lecture me or other Americans on talking about Race. I resent him saying that and am offended by it. I think he should offer Americans an apology. It isn’t his place to lecture us on those issues but needs to take care of the justice department. That is his job.

 

I am a white 55 year old man and I am not a coward when it comes to talking about race. The reason most white people don’t talk about race is not because they are cowards. The reason is, if a white person says anything negative about blacks we are instantly considered and branded bigots. Yet it seems the blacks can say anything they like and no one calls them on it.

Double standard

 Blacks have black history month, and black holidays. If whites said lets have white history month or have a white people’s holiday, we would be considered Klu Klux Klansmen. Is that right? I don’t want such a holiday but if I did, I would be considered a bigot. That is not right. What if the whites wanted a white entertainment night. The blacks would be marching in the streets even though they have one and the Hispanics have one. Is this right? It is a double standard.

 

Don’t blame today’s generation:

I am speaking as a white person. Most of the white people I know don’t say anything negative about Blacks. I have many black friends and have spoke as a guest in black churches. I don’t have a problem with them but it seems many blacks have a problem with us. They want to blame all things that go bad on whites because some of their ancestors were slaves of white Americans. I admit it was terribly wrong to have black slaves or Chinese slaves or any other kind of slaves. To me, I had nothing to do with it and neither did my white fellow Americans. So don’t blame us.

Frankly I am tired of hearing that every time a black person gets fired it is the white mans fault, or if they don’t get hired, it is the white mans fault. If they get arrested, it is the white mans fault. I think that is a cop out and they need to take responsibility and examine themselves. I can’t blame any race of people if I get arrested. I shouldn’t have been doing what I was to get arrested. I don’t hear President Obama complaining about the whites. He pulled himself up to where he is today by hard work and study.

Get over it!

 I am tired of hearing from the blacks how white people owe them for slavery. I don’t feel I owe them anything but friendship. To put it simply, I think they need to get over it. Blacks were not the only slaves in the world. The Chinese have also been slaves and the Jews were slaves many times through history. They aren’t complaining about it today. Actually, it was blacks who caught other tribe members and enslaved them and sold them to the white man. There are slaves in Africa today. So give them some blame. Many countries enslave women today to be sex slaves. Slavery is terrible and needs to be stopped wherever found.

I will admit, there are white bigots but the majority of whites have no problem with blacks. There also seems to be a lot of black bigots to me. To me, Al Sharpten is a bigot and so is Jessie Jackson. Angry bigots against the whites. I also know most blacks are good God loving people and are just trying to make the best of life.

I have lived in China for most of the last 14 years. I am the minority there. Many Chinese don’t like foreigners and have their names for us. I have been in many villages and I was the only white person. We have to pay more than the Chinese people and many times and are treated bad. So I know a little about being a minority.

I have spoke openly about black and white relations. So Mr. Holder, are you satisfied?

Rick Haynes – President and CEO

China Harvest Ministries

254-592-290

http://chinaharvest.org

http://helping-china-orphans.com

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This is Ming Han. In September 2000 he was brought to the orphanage outside of Dalian China. Rick and Joy Haynes of China Harvest Ministries had just funded and opened a new orphanage at that time under the Chinese authority and a Chinese Director. Ming Han was a twelve year old Chinese orphan who had never been to school a day in his life. It wasn’t because of his intelligence, but because he was just so poor. He couldn’t read or write Chinese, but was a very good soft hearted boy.

So, he was taken in to the beautiful new orphanage by the sea. He was the first orphan child to arrive there. A few days later, 10 more orphans arrived from the village areas. Now, it was time for Ming Han to start to school. He was enrolled in the first grade but he was so embarrassed because of his age. He was several years older then the others and was much taller. But he was given encouragement from the loving staff and before long he was doing Ok. His teachers also encouraged him and helped him in public school. They all liked him because of his quiet demeanor.

These past eight and a half years, Ming Han has gone from the first grade to the ninth grade and is about to finish middle school. Not only can Ming Han read and write Chinese but he can also read and write English and speak it very well. For eight years Rick and Joy and a few of other foreigners taught him English on the weekends along with the other children at the orphanage. Actually, all the kids there speak English fluently now. When Ming Han finishes middle school this year, he will be sent to a trade school and he will learn a trade. China Harvest Ministries will sponsor him until he is out and has a job.

The motto of China harvest Ministries is “A home where Chinese orphans can have hope and a second chance for a successful life”. Ming Han has been given a second chance in life and he will do well.

Rick Haynes – President and CEO

China Harvest Ministries

http://chinaharvest.org

http://helping-china-orphans.com

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 The Chinese Lantern Festival

It falls on the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Year. The Lantern Festival takes place on a full moon, and marks the end of Chinese New Year festivities. The Lantern Festival dates back to shrouded legends of the Han Dynasty over 2000 years ago.

Popular Food:

The most popular food for the Chinese Lantern Festival is a kind of sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice or wheat flour. Joy and the kids at the orphanage are making these dumplings for the festival. The Chinese name of this dish is (Yuanxiao)

Where did the festival originate:

We are not sure but there is one legend that the Jade Emperor in Heaven was so angered at a town for killing his favorite goose, that he decided to destroy it with a storm of fire. But, a good fairy heard of this storm of fire, and warned the people of the town to light lanterns throughout the town on the appointed day. The towns people did as they were told, and from the Heavens, it looked as if the whole village was on fire. Satisfied that his goose had already been avenged, the Jade Emperor decided not to burn the town. From that day on, people celebrated the anniversary of their deliverance by carried lanterns of different shapes and colors through the streets on the first full moon of the year.

When you go out in the streets, red lanterns are everywhere and fireworks are going off again.

Rick Haynes – President and CEO

China Harvest Ministries

http://www.chinaharvest.org

http://www.helping-china-orphans.com

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This is Xu Huan Huan

She needs your help!

 Her name sounds like ( Shoe Hwan Hwan ).

XHH is a China orphan along with her older sister Xu Ling. She came to the orphanage about a year or so after it was open. I am not sure how their parents died but they were orphans. The welfare department asked if we would take them in and w did. She was just about to start the first grade when they came. What a little cutie she was and still is. When she talked, she would peep like a bird. So faint you could hardly hear her. Now she is in the eighth grade. XHH is very intelligent and does well in school. It takes about $800 a year to care for her and pay her school fees.

Would you be willing to help sponsor her? Can you help?

Here is a photo album of her.

Xu Huan Huan

Rick Haynes – President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
254-592-2900
http://chinaharvest.org

http://helping-china-orphans.com

http://working-from-home-1.com/links.aspx

In the summer of 2000 my wife Joy and I heard from a group of reporters in Kai Fa Qu China, that there was a very poor man and his son living in the mountains of the Zhan He area in the Liao Ming Province. These reporters cried as they talked about this man and his son. The man’s wife had left him after he had a stroke and it was just him and his son Peng Peng. We wanted to meet them so one of the reporters took us up there and we met the man and his son. The man was paralyzed on one side and couldn’t work. They had no food and the house they lived in, had no windows but plastic over the window openings. It was freezing outside and the river near by was frozen. The floor was just dirt.

Peng Peng was about 7 years old and was caring for his father. He gathered wood in the freezing cold for his neighbors to make a little money and he washed his father’s cloths in the freezing river. He also walked 5 miles back and forth to school. When we visited them, we took them some rice and oil and told them we were going to open an orphanage soon and we would hire him to be a guard or something. The man cried as he needed some help.

In about a month we returned to get the man and his son. We noticed he wasn’t limping any more. He had regained his strength on his paralyzed side since we had seen him last. We offered him the job of cooking for the 16 Chinese orphans we had gathered. We paid for Peng Peng”s school and he fit in along with the other kids. He did well in School and they lived there about two years. His father decided to leave one day and took Peng Peng with him.

This is a picture of Peng Peng in 2000.He is the forth child from the front.

We didn’t see him for a few years and he called and said his father had died and he was working in a bread company. A few years later he called and wanted to join the army and ask if we could help him pay the entrance fee. We gave him the amount and he joined the army. He just got out of the army and called Joy and he still calls her grandma. He came to visit Joy and all the kids. He is a man now and will have no trouble getting a job as the Chinese treat their solders well.

This is a picture of Peng Peng now.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO
China Harvest Ministries
http://chinaharvest.org
http://helping-china-orphans.com

The thief returns the cell phone!!

 
About two weeks ago, my wife “Joy” was on the bus in Dalian China where we live. The bus was so crowded as it was bitter cold outside. A man stuck his hand in my wife’s purse and stole her cell phone. When she got off the bus and into a store she was going to call one of the Chinese orphans we care for. We call them our children and they call us grandma and grandpa. We have 13 children altogether. Joy finally noticed her cell phone was gone and knew it was stolen. So she went back to the apartment and one of our girls who is studying to be a nurse, called the house. Grandma, she said, where have you been, I have been trying to call you. Joy said someone stole my cell phone on the bus. So Xu Ling ( sounds like Shoe Ling) called Joy’s cell number. A man answered the phone. Xu Ling said you stole that phone from my grandma; she needs that phone as she cares for 13 children and she needs it. The man hung up. So Xu Ling calls another girl and all the other children. They start calling the man. That is my grandma’s phone, you must give it back. She doesn’t have the money for another. Those precious kids pestered that thief until he said, “I will bring it back, it is too much trouble”. That is what he did. That will teach him to steal from Grandma Joy.

Rick Haynes- President and CEO

China Harvest Ministries

http://chinaharvest.org
http://helping-china-orphans.com

Joy and I have lived in China since August 1995 and have seen many Chinese New Years Come and go. It has been special these last 8 years as we have enjoyed it with the Chinese orphans we support and care for.

This year, Jan 26 is Chinsese New Year. Millions of people travel during this time by bus and train. The train stations are packed and people try to buy tickets days ahead of time. Some can’t even get tickets. Many have to stand in the isle for hours or days to get home. It is very important for them to go home and be with family.

To Chinese itis there most important holliday. But Christians consider the holliday second after Christmas. It is semilar to Christmas as the family gathers and and has good food. Every year the kids at the orphanage along with my wife Joy make Jiaozi or dumplings. It is a tradition. it usually has pork and vegetable and spices. They are very delicious.

They boil them in water and you dip them in soy sauce with garlic. Other good foods are enjoyed such as tangerines, fruits and different snacks. Then they watch special Chinese shows with singing and comedy. They are glued to the TV.

Fire works:
I have never seen such fireworks as they have on Chinese New Years. The fireworks they use would blow a hand right off. It sounds like a bombing during a war and is constant for hours. All the cars alarms are going off. You can’t even hear a friend talk next to you. If you live on the 6th floor as many do, it sounds like the windows will blow out.

The next morning you can go out and red paper from the fireworks cover the streets and everything. It is very interesting. People spend a lot of money for fireworks.

Rick Haynes
China Harvest Ministries

Hello

This a video of the orphans in Dalian China. They are Chinese orphans that have lost their parents due to illness or some other reason. China Harvest Ministries started an orphanage outsided of Dalian in Sept. 2000. We have taken care of these children about 8 years now. You will see them younger and as they are now. They still need financial help to get them through school and to care for them. http://helping-china-orphans.com

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Rick Haynes – President and CEO