The Nile River flows down from the highlands of the Great Lakes Region of central Africa and deposited Bantu people along its shores since time immemorial. Tantamount to the U.S. and Canada before European colonialism, America's Great Lakes region was freely traveled by the indigenous peoples.
The earliest Europeans, we now know were Grimaldi man and Cheddar man, Black melanated people.
Meanwhile, the earliest so called white people have been traced to the Steppes, south of current day Russia.
The Ottoman slave trade (current day Turkey) enslaved Slavic people of today's Eastern Europe and Western Europeans concurrently via their Muslim cohorts on the Barbary Coast.
By the time the Portuguese and Spanish began to trade in West Africans, the slave trade was old. And people were shipped not only from West Africa, but from wherever they could get non-Christian slaves.
Today, Black people are under the European model of history, which can easily be disputed when we look at the Ten Commandments movie-type casting, which depicts everyone in the early world as white.
The problems with the kids we see in the schools today is downstream results of the negative depictions of Blacks by the European colonizers. They have worked to ensure nothing positive is promulgated about Black people except sports, dancing, and anything that shows us as secondary to the colonizers.
Today's young people need to research works like Chancellor Williams's "The Destruction of Black Civilization" as a starting point to clearly see the relatively recent coverup of Black classical civilizations.
More and more in the age of the internet, the flow of info spreads around but the idea that we are not descended from slaves is so damaging to our history and this is because when we were taken captive and taken to America we lost our tribes and our heritage instead given new names and new identities separate from our ancestral names and ethnicities.
Most are descendants of west African tribes and countries but we’ll never know as new land and new home given we are not asiatic black men or “TRUE AMERICANS” that denounces native Americans the people who traveled on the land bridge once between Alaska and Russia some millennia ago.
We need to send our children to hbcus and instill the beliefs they are great and being black is beautiful and know you matter just as much as any other person on earth.
Modern black family is not the same as before the civil rights era where men left for war and worked and women were at home and the problem is as we’ve gained “rights” we forgot why we fought in the first place instead complacent in our suffering as we fight over trivial matters fact is too many young black people are dying or incarcerated constantly worrying about living til tomorrow or eating tonight. We need to take care of our own the church used to be a place of safety and a pillar of the community now it’s a house of gossip and judgement there are many little lgbtq kids in the church hiding who they are for fear of judgement or disownment the Bible is not all literal and god loves all so why wouldn’t he love the drag queen or trans woman no person is above judgement. Another thing because we face early death or mass incarceration our elders are not “Elders” they are 30 and 40 yr old grandparents having kids in high school things are not like the 50’s when you could do that and still have a comfortable life the world is too expensive.
Black men and women many without fathers and mothers to teach them how to be men or women then growing up mimicking the behaviors learned in the home. THE MAN IS NOT A MAN BECAUSE YOU DID NOT TEACH HIM TO BE A MAN. THAT WOMAN IS NOT A WOMAN BECAUSE SHE WASN’T TAUGHT TO BE ONE IF THEY ARE immature from the beginning then why expect change - kev.
ROOTING FOR EVERYONE BLACK.