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Mar 29
2010
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Homage to Our Shared AncestorsPosted by vhenry in Black America, Black, Ancestry, African American, African, Africa |
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I hear us speak in hushed tones when we talk of our ancestors. Our eyes dart about, searching for any unwelcome listeners within earshot. Why? Because some of us feel shame when we think about how long we were enslaved, despair when we imagine the beatings, physically ill reliving the rapes. But the shame is not ours, don’t think it and certainly do not own it. The truth is we never stopped fighting, running, learning, plotting, growing. Us, against and entire nation. This is their legacy…our legacy.
It is that spirit which must be embraced, that strength that we must seize. For, much
