Freedom Run!
The first book from the To Africa's Aid Trilogy
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We, as blacks, should never forget the sacrifices that those before us made to pave the road we freely walk on today. In this complex, confused world we live in, it is easy to forget about the sacrifices many have made. It is easy to forget about where we as a people came from, so to know were we are going, individually, can sometimes seem confusing. Forgetting these sacrifices will cause us to forget who we were, are, and will be for the next generation. Forgetting these sacrifices will cause those to feel that there is no need to sacrifice any longer.
Together, is the only way we will over come the things that keep us down as a people, and as individuals. We are stronger than we know, only if we could find the strength in which to come together to find out. Our past strength, and togetherness is what took us off the plantations, but now it’s time to free our minds from the plantations we place ourselves on. If we are to solve the problems of our communities, we must first find the strength to come together as a people.
The success of many slave rebellions came from the intelligence, and unity slaves all shared for the desire to be free. Today we have no chains and shackles to bind us, however, many of us continue to live separated and filled with hate towards one another. I pray we find a common reason to once again come together for families, futures, and ourselves. The power to unite is in us all, we just have to look hard enough with in.
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I spent most of my childhood in the Virgin Islands with my mother, three sisters, and step father. At the tender age of sixteen I left the island to live with my biological dad in West Palm Beach Florida. There I attended high school, and there is where I faced racism truly for the very first time. I witnessed black, and white students calling each other racial names, and fighting for seemingly nothing at all. It was the first time I realized that things weren’t what they seemed to be on the t.v sets portraying the free America I came to. Upon graduating from high school, I joined the U.S. Navy, and was victim to racial name calling, innuendoes, profiling, stereotyping, career tampering, and much, much more. What was most surprising was not the fact that I faced it from whites, but from blacks who felt that their place in life was the place the system gave them, which was almost always nothing, and nowhere. After my military experience and travels, I decided to attend college, and obtain a degree in education. I decided on Florida A&M University in Tallahassee Florida because of its rich African American heritage, and close location to the islands. In Tallahassee Florida I continued to face racism at extreme levels by not just the individual white community, but by law enforcement, and the judicial system. Unfair punishments where constantly handed down to black students, to hinder their opportunities of success in the future even after obtaining a degree. In a country that clamed to be free, I found this to be particularly unfair, and unjust treatment for the struggling black communities. These continuing racially charged experiences, led me to many realizations about our current civilization, and where it will end up.
GOD BLESS.