We need to let go off that ancestor talk as if our history is defined by the atrocities cacs inflicted and everything is within that context. My elders are more then just the sum of their parents strife. Some of the proudest ,self aware and centered people i've met are (great)grandchildren of enslaved people. I had the honour of meeting my mom's great aunt when she was in her late 80s, i was a child. Her mother had been born around 1850 and was born a slave. That woman was a force of nature,strong,purposeful energy and a demeanour i had only seen in the old people around me as a child. She spoke an old patois i wasnt used to but i could understand what she said. She still lived in a old ass little wooden house that was around in the 1800s and farmed her own food. I know my breh understand when i say that was the blackest person i had met up till that point,undiluted black,even Jezus had to play the backseat to the traditional customs and religious practices. I now wish i could have lived with her for a bit,she even joked with my mom to let me stay for a couple of weeks but i was scared cause she was no joke and ass whuppings would have been mandy.
