The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
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Great Post.
Its amazing how our music doesn't reflect what our people been through in a way to help up uplift ourselves. Instead it too many times has us at each others throats.
Thanks so much for this thread. It should humble the biggest gansta and toughest rap star, to understand that the shit they live or sing about ain't shit compared to what our ancestors have been through.
Its amazing how our music doesn't reflect what our people been through in a way to help up uplift ourselves. Instead it too many times has us at each others throats.
Thanks so much for this thread. It should humble the biggest gansta and toughest rap star, to understand that the shit they live or sing about ain't shit compared to what our ancestors have been through.
Most definitely.
Sometimes I think we have learned the wrong set of lessons from this experience though.
Sometimes we have learnt nothing from this experience.
For a people to overcome this, it takes extra-ordinary qualities.
It would be uplifting if we go back and learn how our foreparents adapted for survival.
What are the techniques they used?
What sustained them throughout the ordeal?
How did they keep hope alive?
What was the source of their strength?
When we begin to investigate, I believe that we would truly rise beyond our conditioned expectations of ourselves.
It is then we would give thanks to our foreparents for the resilience they have embedded in our DNA.
Peace.
Bumping. Glad I saw this thread.
I went to a Black/African muesuem earlier of last year somewhere in Harlem I think it was, and bought some really good books (I'll have to dig through my bookshelf for the titles later). The big hardcover books were expensive, but they're worth it. For all the members here who are in school, why don't suggest to your teachers to take you out to a muesum like this, instead of going to the "Muesum of Natural History" for the upteempth million time? And it doesn't have to be Feburary to do it.
I went to a Black/African muesuem earlier of last year somewhere in Harlem I think it was, and bought some really good books (I'll have to dig through my bookshelf for the titles later). The big hardcover books were expensive, but they're worth it. For all the members here who are in school, why don't suggest to your teachers to take you out to a muesum like this, instead of going to the "Muesum of Natural History" for the upteempth million time? And it doesn't have to be Feburary to do it.
Oh but Africans enslaved people so the Transatlantic slave trade means nothing and we should get over it
http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery/dp/0807844888/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/104-2506668-6617535?ie=UTF8
Williams' ground breaking contirbution was to link all of this together, and argue that without the immoral slave trade, the industrial revolution, and thus capitalism as we know it, would not have happened.
http://books.google.com/books?id=B6...lavery&sig=ACfU3U2R6p1TxBOxVVxa8Aa-VETs1auNkw
Found on Google Books
Sadly, this is the image they've painted of King which isn't historically accurate. You'd think King's life ended after I Have a Dream. Meanwhile, MLK and Malcolm drifted more toward each other ideologically toward the end of their lives. But they love promoting this image of a passive negro.
You hit the nail on the head.........
Historians: MLK's complexity largely ignored
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=230193
