Black History

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed" - Booker T. Washington

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word" - Martin Luther King, Jr

We as a race can say we have overcome and that we are a proud and mighty race. Yes we have succeed where we were told we never will. In this mighty race we have some of the world's greatest athletes, singers, poets, writers, politicians, dancers, actors, more so a black man is the President of one of the world's greatest nations....is there a race that is mightier than the black race. I would have to say no to that. We have been beaten, enslaved, raped of our pride and dignity....yet still we rise. We have seen how a man became a slave and over the years we have seen how a slave became a man. This is black history month but I celebrate black history everyday. Everyday that I achieve something or overcome obstacles I celebrate because if it weren't for my ancestors I wouldn't have anything to celebrate. Looking back on slavery is a historical truth to me, it helps me to be strong. No man can know where he is going until he can understand where he is coming from. In order to understand the future we must first understand the past and understand how get here to the present. The past will make us strong and we get stronger as the years pass. We are a powerful race and we will always keep rising. We have been held captive and yet still we rise. Our ancestors knew that one day we would overcome that was why they fight so that we can be free. I think Maya Angelou said it best "Bringing the gift my ancestors gave, I am the dream and hope of the slave". In the words of Marcus Mosiah Garvey "A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots". They paved the way for us and now we are to do the same for our children and our children's children. They will be our hope and dream....but what are we giving them to hope for. We need to come together and make this world a save place for our future generation. No longer do we need to be separated, laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.....are we saying we are nothing but dirty clothes. Is that the message we are sending the generations to come? Is this the manner we want to continue to live in? I know that there will always be whites who think that we are nothing but slaves.....but as the African Proverbs states "The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it the higher it rise". So no matter what they try to do to us we will rise. Obama is full proof of that and if they still don't believe there will be more to come cause we will not back down....we never did, not now, not ever. "One Aim! One God! One Destiny!"