Sister girl,
We need to embrace our Royal ties! Celebrate! We are AFRICANS in America! I understand your brother's frustration...our history did not begin in America. However, our public school system will have our children believe that Christopher Columbus discovered America, yet not teach our children about the mathmeticians of Egypt...AFRICANS and the about Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who performed the First Open Heart Surgery in 1893.
A cool site about the Afrocentric experience to check out is
http://www.swagga.com/swagga.htm
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Originally posted by onesavvydiva:
>>>>@ Finer Woman....
My brother would sooo love to conversate with you. We went to a play last month with some of my friends and his frat brothers, the name of the play was something like the "History of the African-American people", and they started the play with Harriet Tubman and went on....Needless to say he, and several of his frats were LIVID>>>> After the play, we went out to eat, and he explained to me why he was so upset. (He is a Psyc major and I am trying to follow in his footsteps), but anyway, he said that since there were children and other people in the audience who may not be well-read about our history, it is very mis-leading to BEGIN the play in slavery. We talked and talked and he was just so upset b/c he said that children these days think that all of their ancestors looked like Aunt Jemima, and this is extremely sad. He said, and I agree, that if they were going to name the play "the History of the African-American people" they should have started from the begining when we were taken from our royal status' and forced into slavery.
Anyway, I didn't mean for my post to be this long, but your begining sentence reminded me of that conversation and I had to comment....Phenomenal Day!!!
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