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Transcript: Rafika Morris. I Wanted to Fight Injustice.
[On a sunny day as an old truck drives by, black field workers pick cotton]
Rafika: “Growing up in the South during the time of segregation
[Young Rafika picks with Grandma]
blacks and whites, we couldn’t mix. And not only that, they had signs to keep you knowing where you were supposed to go. I couldn’t understand why we couldn’t get along.
[In a barn they approach a white boy]
Boy: “Fifty cents.”
Grandma: “Yes, Sir.
[Grandma takes coins from a boy]
Thank you, Sir.”
Rafika: “Grandma, he’s just a boy. Why are you saying “Sir”?”
Grandma: “Be quiet. I want you to know your place.”
[She stares blankly at Grandma]
Rafika: “I told her after we got back on the truck: “You know what? I’ll never hold my head down!” My grandmother knew I had a love for the Bible because I would always read the Bible as a kid. But I couldn’t understand it.
[With her index finger, Rafika tracks the words of a large open Bible]
I used to pray, “What makes us so different?” You know, “Why can’t we live together?”
[Under a stary sky, little Rafika looks up and closes her eyes]
I met a group, and this group was like what I really wanted to be in. They were about politics. They said, “We’re fighting injustice.” And when they said that word “injustice,” it was like, ‘Yeah, this is what I want to be in, right?
[Rafika as a young adult]
‘To be part of something that can change and make people united, right?’ That was my goal.
[Wearing all black men and women stand side by side]
We started protesting about police brutality, and I think that’s what a lot of people, you know, were focusing on.
[They clap and chant]
I liked some of the things that they were doing, but they trained us every, every day in military training. We learned how to use weapons and stuff like that. And so, I’m thinking: ‘This is not what I want to be in. This is not what I joined.’ So, I started going back to God again, to reading the Bible, because it was like I’m not changing anything. The Bible that I was reading was the King James Version. So, I was reading it, reading it, reading it, but I couldn’t understand it. We went to Jamaica, and we saw this Bible, the New World Translation. And I started reading it, and it made so much sense! And I could understand it, and it wasn’t “thee” and “thou.” I was like, ‘Wow!’ You know, like, ‘This is the one I want to get.’ One day, two women knocked on the door. I didn’t know they were Jehovah’s Witnesses. All I could see was that, Bible. And I said, “Where did you get that Bible from?” And they said, “OK, we’ll bring you one.” And they did. So, they brought me the Bible, but I didn’t know I was going to have a Bible study that came along with it. The first time I went to a convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses, it was like ten thousand people. When I went in there and I saw all these different faces and different colors, it was like Jehovah showing me: “Hey, Rafika, remember you were asking me “about all different people getting together and being one? See, I’m not partial; they do get along; we are unified.” And it just made me feel so good inside. Yes! This is the organization that I want to be in.
[Now in the ministry]
I just see people as people, you know,
[She talks to a blonde woman]
and I can preach and be friends with anybody.
[And to a man on a busy street]
Now that I know what the Bible really teaches, I have a wonderful life because I know that only God and his government can bring about peace.
[At a door she reads a scripture]
Just like how Jehovah unified everybody, I want everybody to be unified and come to know Jehovah, just like I know him. Jehovah answered my prayer.
[She picks a flower and puts it in a red and white bouquet, she puts the bouquet to her nose, then contemptibly smiles]
(Logo: Black capital letters JW.ORG inside a white box. Copyright 2018 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)