We must read and re-read more American and African American history and stop dishonoring our ancestors, those super-human achievers, who thrived amid, and through, unspeakable horrors to produce us! Those same horrors killed off the Caribbean and North American Indians, the beaver, the bison and the carrier pigeons. Our ancestors, whom we ignorant ingrates would impugn and dismiss as mere "slaves," as though they were sub-human, are glorious specimens of humanity, the greatest in world history. "Slave" is not a bad word to me. It is a good word! The sooner we accept that and emulate their strategies, initiatives, faith, determination, and burning learning desire, the better "we" will be!
