Coming into freshman seminar this week i was expecting to hear something along the lines of education. However , i got a greater lesson than what i was expecting.
As black people we are often taught that when they took our ancestors from africa that everything was taken from us . They text books and teachers talk as if we had to start all over , as if we had absolutly nothing. However , what i failed to realize was that we did not lose everything , there were some things they can not take away.
Some things like food , culture , traditions , and family traditions they were not able to capture . These things lived in the hearts and minds of every slave that was ripped from their lives. Even if they took us from our natural habitat they still could not take everything away from us. These traditions were passed down from parents to offspring throughout the generations and are still practiced through out the african american community .
It was refreshing to bring a new prospective to how i looked at a topic. Also its nice to know that the same resiliency that exists now , was even more dominate amongst our ancestors.
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