This is what they look like today...
I believe they are standing in the same spots as their ancestors in the Trumbull painting..
I flip flop on this but I'm a sometimes proponent of Black/African Americans just calling ourselves American. We built this country and have the right to be the face of America. Even moreso because many of us have Native DNA which gives us blood ties to this land even before Europeans.
I think it's time that we change this paradigm of where we tend to separate ourselves out, and start making ourselves front and center. It is undeniable the African influence on North, Central, and South American culture.
Matthew Henson helped discover the North Pole. DuSable founded Chicago. Benjamin Banneker designed our nation's Capital. The influence of black cowboys on the "Wild, Wild, West" folklore. Our music, art, religion and literature are all at the foundation of American pop culture, which have been used as the tools of American imperialism.
Should we continue to call ourselves "African" American, "Black" American, or just American - since we are, at the most basic levels, the foundation of what is America today.
I believe they are standing in the same spots as their ancestors in the Trumbull painting..
I flip flop on this but I'm a sometimes proponent of Black/African Americans just calling ourselves American. We built this country and have the right to be the face of America. Even moreso because many of us have Native DNA which gives us blood ties to this land even before Europeans.
I think it's time that we change this paradigm of where we tend to separate ourselves out, and start making ourselves front and center. It is undeniable the African influence on North, Central, and South American culture.
Matthew Henson helped discover the North Pole. DuSable founded Chicago. Benjamin Banneker designed our nation's Capital. The influence of black cowboys on the "Wild, Wild, West" folklore. Our music, art, religion and literature are all at the foundation of American pop culture, which have been used as the tools of American imperialism.
Should we continue to call ourselves "African" American, "Black" American, or just American - since we are, at the most basic levels, the foundation of what is America today.