Tuesday, June 25, 2013

HONOR OUR ANCESTORS

Beyoncé Knowles, 21st century business woman


Beyoncé Knowles is a woman to take notes from and study if we are, as a People, going to compete and mean something in the 21st century. If we are to be taken seriously the old domineering sense of helplessness, entitlement, of being and feeling oppressed has to die, and live elsewhere replaced by a definition of self, grounded in truth of being.

The cultural landscape has changed profoundly. In the United States the population of immigrants unfamiliar with our rage, the feel, and sense of our place in American history, and culture are disconnected from the dynamics between whites and Blacks. These people are changing how Black Americans are viewed, and taken care of by the lives they create, and live. In subservient positions other ethnic groups are learning from us, and profiting from that knowledge.

Japanese coming to live in the United States are told Black folks are the ‘Ladder People’, I've been told, because fortunes can be built upon the shoulders of African-Americans. If that does not change us we will be exchanged, or handled loosely as change! © Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (11.02.12) 





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