Celebrating Black Heroes & Sheroesâ € |
In some African traditions, the griot held the story of local people â € "the people, the family or clan. The storyteller gathered the threads of history, representing the different people involved in it. Keeping these lines and kept safe. Savoring them, treasured them. Woven together to form a fabric, a set that mixes colors and a variety of shades in a pattern, which told the story of the people.
The people listened to her story. Their tongues sang it. Their feet danced. Her hips swayed. Their hands drummed it. His fingers carved. The stories of their ancestors, treasure, recalled, shared, and preserved for future generations.
I was very fortunate in that my African American mother taught me very early age to be proud of my heritage. When she told me about the experience of slavery, said that from the perspective of those who had endured and survived slavery. So I encouraged to think of slavery and resistance as one and the same â € "a person who was enslaved resisted slavery as something natural. She told me stories of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth that still inspire and inform me, almost 40 years later.
In Afrika, under the settlement, people also often isolated from their property and even forced to speak the European languages. Under an education system that left them unable to locate their home villages, and unable to speak to the members of their own families, who could not communicate their experience to their own communities. And they were taught to believe they were superior to the â € ~ backwards € ™ people in rural villages, and encouraged to adopt European religious practices, modes of behavior, etc.. However, often have a more Deposit of wealth that we in the diaspora, may have.
During the period of slavery, Afrikan people were not allowed to tell our own stories. We were not allowed to speak our own language, or even the name of our own children. Our stories were stolen from us, and rewritten in distorted shapes. These distortions were used to define and control us.
But still, Afrikan people told their stories. He whispered them. They'd lovingly made the names babiesâ € ™ in their blankets. He told the stories of their homes, although much has been forgotten. His fingers pointed. It is baked into bread and cakes, stirred into soups and stews and rice. Children locked in their € ™ s hair. And planted in their gardens.
They did their own words and their own languages. Criollo. Patois. Gullah. They made new art forms, new forms of music â € "of jazz, blues, reggae, rhythm and blues, gospel. Although much had been forgotten, stolen, lost, rewritten or distorted, much more.
In the Afrikan Diaspora, we have been brainwashed for hundreds of years to believe they are inferior to other races. During and after slavery, our ancestors were told they were fit only for women and men to serve their white masters which were stronger, smarter and more capable than them.
Today, we see these stereotypes being perpetuated, in slightly different ways, but still clearly recognizable. The display functions, including television and film, and advertisements, we often see Black men portrayed as criminals or gang members â € "hard, hard and violent. We rarely see Black men and women who are portrayed as loving husbands and wives, and parents in stable homes and relationships, or doing jobs such as bankers, teachers or other authority figures.
We have swallowed the distortions, changes in our stories. And too often, we believe.
Jak Dodd created the Nubian Jak board game cause of this syndrome. He said:
â € OEI worked as a social with a lot of young Black and women. I realized that many of them had a very negative self image. If you asked most of them described how themselves or see themselves, or those who identify with them didnâ ™ € t have a lot of Black models in Britain € |. So identifying abiding country with weapons and culture of Jamaica. We all want strong models that can be identified.
This brainwashing is often subtle, but very powerful. Too often we are unaware of their effect on us. Our negativity about ourselves and each of the limitations of other opportunities they attract. It creates a sense of powerlessness, which often leads to aggression on our part as the strike in frustration at the limitations imposed on our lives.
These negative images have a profound effect on our psyche â € "our conscious and unconscious mind. It is almost inevitable in the face of this overwhelming disadvantage, we developed an inferiority complex. This negative attitude of Black people often have about ourselves and each other is transmitted from father to son, and from generation to generation.
As the journalist Henry Bono said:
If you have no sense of its foundation, youâ € ™ re skeletal ™ € you can not do anything. This is Whata € ™ s happened. And you have no sense of shame at all. There is nothing beneath you. There should have codes of conduct. It des-Black to mug and rob somebody. It des-Black to attack their teacher. Because youâ € ™ ve always had the discipline. Youâ € ™ ve always balance. But unfortunately, itâ € ™ s become very Black to do these things for a certain group of children. Believe thata € ™ s what being Black is, being rough and tough.
We can see the effects of this brainwashing on modern African British youth. Those whose parents or grandparents were born in the Caribbean and were educated to think of Britain as the motherland are often in search of its identity. In the â € ~ 70, many turned to Rastafarianism. These days, some of them, after rejecting the dominant culture, turn to gun violence and gang violence as a means to search positive identity as strong, Black men and women. Other overidentify with the dominant culture and try to fit in and be accepted by white society, so they are aware of their heritage.
In addition, our ignorance, concerns how to deal with racism which we live. When we are not aware of our heritage, we are not so clever as otherwise we could be in our responses to racism.
We donâ ™ € t try to be all we can be. Instead, we settle to be the second, third or fourth best. We donâ ™ € t have life-changing or world-changing decision, we leave it to someone else to do things best and hope things donâ € ™ t get much worse. How many times have you complained to friends and family about your noisy neighbors, or its Board of recovery taxes or complained to someone at the bus stop about how late the bus? Have you taken this complaint further?
And this is a problem that affects both Black-white. When a part of society is not up to their potential, all of society suffers â € "we see increased crime rates, we to pay police and imprison criminals, we live in fear of being assaulted or attacked. And the person who may have discovered a cure for cancer next can sweep the floor of the local supermarket or sitting in a prison cell right now.
Conscious Black adults have to take responsibility for turning this destructive wave, the tide of toxic, negative thoughts, beliefs and attitudes.
Celebrating Black heroes and heroines that allows us to decide for ourselves what the images are live in our mind. The more we celebrate our Black heroes and heroines, and share their stories with others and with society at large, the more we can enjoy our true heritage as African people.
Many Afrikan people such as Harriet Jacobs, author of incidents in the life of a slave after escaping from slavery in North America, published his stories, often as a way to support financially. Some, like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, also made lecture tours on their experience of oppression to a wider audience. These speakers were important participants and leaders of the movement Abolition of the United States. Many of his speeches and narratives still exist, inspiring as to how our ancestors used their strength, ingenuity and courage to survive.
Stories of the slaves in the Caribbean are not as numerous, although it is very likely that many more as-yet-unknown stories are languishing in libraries, universities, and People € ™ s attic. In Britain, our stories often not recorded. Many British dealers held on the material to be sold to American collectors. The late Len Garrison, founder of the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, showed the commitment complete the construction of a monument in celebration of Black people's presence in Britain. He said:
In the late â € ~ 60 and â € ~ 70, when I was talking about this collection, I went round some of the museum to ask if they had any materials related to history Black, and said: â € œYes, people are coming to us € materials. I remember the Labor History Museum said, â € œBut that donâ € ™ t pick â € ~ I just told them that donâ ™ € t know anyone whoa € ™ s collection € ITA, and that nothing was being collected. You might imagine that the history of work related to Black people as it was for whites. But it hadn t ™ € gathered.
He took the initiative to seek out Black memories of when and where you could find it. He said,
I used to cut newspaper articles. I just collect them. But eventually, I began to create the collection by going to antique shops of Portobello Road and thrift stores.
When people Afrikan celebrate our heroes and heroines, we control - we take charge of how we see each other and ourselves. The more we know about our ancestors and our heritage, the more we are empowered by this knowledge. This changes our whole attitude and behavior. We are no longer at the mercy of the negativity with which we are constantly bombed. And we have the opportunity to go through our images and positive attitudes to our children. And when white people celebrate Black heroes and heroines, they reap the rewards of life in a multiracial society.
Afrikan people are good at all â € "architecture, astronomy, astrophysics, and thata € ™ s just â € ~ yy € ™ s. We are scientists, teachers, explorers, educators, philanthropists, and healers.
People Black are the heroes and heroines. We success. We each have our own Black success stories to tell. The more you share with others, more power to create love and positivity which surrounds us and affects our lives. It helps us attract and connect with the abundance of the universe. Subsequent to the types of opportunities attract, and to help determine how to respond to these opportunities.
We have to take responsibility for our lives and the lives of our children and other in our community. We must take control of our negative thought processes and do what we do to turn around. Then we can experience the abundant bright and glory of the universe to which we are entitled, and that is our birthright. And the whole of British society will benefit from our continued success.
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