Tha ancestors of our “Opp's” who first kidnapped us, destroyed our families, treated us like animals, and forced us to work in tha industry of chattel slavery. much to our detriment. False narratives were written by"OPP's" became tha norm, serving as tha predominant, if not sole foundation of our reconstructed history. These stories asserted that we were “less than,” backward, inferior, without education, without governments, without positive family structures, lacking any semblance of religion, architecture, philosophy, theology, or medical prowess strangers to both agriculturally and economically based ingenuity. All of this, however, has been nothing more than a carefully-constructed lie.
So, while we can rattle off tha names of a few “acceptable” Blacks, and Thurgood, still, we do not know tha fuller story Even more, I fear that we have little interest in discovering tha truth a path toward knowledge that will be painful, arduous, and which will require us to give up “histories” with which many of our people seem to have grown “comfortable.”
This is the reality that we continue to swallow hook, line and sinker. In other words, Black history remains an epic saga whose truth remains untold, unknown and therefore impossible to pass down to subsequent generations. Tha story that we know, at least many of us, is no more than a lie, conceived and constructed with ulterior motives, holding an entire race in chains even when tha actual chains have long been removed. And so, we have evolved with a narrative that still defines a once-mighty race, stripped of its lineage beautiful and distinguished by our many “shades of Black” that adorn our skin hues of Black which grow with intensity in tha sunlight bearing colors reminiscent I know that tha story of our history, has huge empty spaces and places that must be filled in so that we can regain tha pride that was once commonplace. I would like to think that we would have shared what we knew with “OPP's” and that tha world would be a better place today a kinder world, a safer world, a cleaner world. But in tha pursuit of dominance and privilege, humanity has taken giant steps backward. And we have suffered.
"It’s Black History Month. Read, listen, reflect, question, surmise and reach a new and different history then share that truth with others whose only “sin” has been, for hundreds if not thousands of years, that we were a people of a different color"
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