Do you think you could have done it? (Not for the sensitive....Trust me!

[AKA_Monet]

The real question is:

If we all knew then what we all know now--the knowledge, the technology, the scholastic activities (although that is still arguable today by some folks), would we be able to handle the similar kinds of slavery our ancestors endured?

My grandmother is the only person I know that has actually met someone in her family (my family) that was slave, who eventually was emancipated. It was her great uncle and she said he was very old when she met him as a little girl.

The scariest stuff is those that lived during Jim Crow (apres slavery) barely speak on the humilation they endured...

If you would born prior to 1980 and your parents were adults in the south pre- and during the 1960's before the 1965 civil rights act and before MLK was assasinated, then that means your folks endured Jim Crow and segregationists laws.

My folks barely speak about the humiliation they endured while they were in college... The arrests for integrating a lunch counter... Being blown away by a fire hose for protesting for civil rights...

These things our ancestors endured are so fragile that we can lose them so quickly that the next thing we know, we have failed to learn from our history to succeed in our futures... We'll be slaves again if we don't shape up our actions... And don't even begin to ask me how to do that because I just don't know outside of pure reparations...