Interesting message I saw someone post on LinkedIn **Must Read**

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

The Enduring Legacy
“So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to get weak.” - Scott Evans.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

There has been so much more that Blacks have endured that it’s only the power beyond what is normal that we’re all still here. Up to and after segregation and during the Civil Rights Era our towns and cities were burned down by the hundreds as the knight riders of the KKK continued with their domestic terror, our women were continuously being raped as desegregation ensued. Our leaders were assasinated, our children were bused one-way, our neighborhoods were infested with drugs, factories closed, unemployment ensued, thousands of Black men died in Vietnam and other unjust wars and single mothers increased by the millions. Gangsta rap was allowed to flourish and Black on Black crime and murder has soared every since. Mass incarceration, police brutality and murder, injustice in our civil and criminal courts continue while drugs, tobacco, and alcohol infest and poison our families. Some of us made it through all of this mentally intact and many of us have not. To add insult to all of these injuries, redlining is still pervasive, the mortgage thieves robbed us of trillions of dollars of equity, as excessive taxation and student loans have left us in more debt than we ever imagined and wanted, and now millions of us struggle to sleep and eat while working 2 and 3 jobs, and now the Russians, Germans and others want revenge for their defeats in World War I and II. So, they’re using the President to divide the nation. If there’s something I missed besides being strong enough to endure all of this, then please add because I don’t know how much more God wants us all to take.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

I could have mentioned so much more like Margaret Sanger's genocidal ambitions with Planned Parenthood and their abortion of 40 million plus Black babies, the Tuskegee poisonous experiments, the theft of our intellectual property and inventions and the continued theft and appropriation of our fine arts and culture, the deliberate miseducating of Black children in public schools since the 1970’s, the outsourcing of jobs, the importation of immigrants and the granting visa’s of all kinds while empowering them financially and Blacks are denied working capital. Not even to mention the disappearance of millions of Black children, and the theft of our grandparents wealth through the estate tax scam, and now the gentrification of our neighborhoods and communities. If it hurts to read my writing then try reading God’s word because it’s the only thing that has helped me to cope, especially when our constitutional and human rights are hardly ever respected even when we’re in the right and walk a straight and narrow path. The denial of our God given right to life, liberty, justice, happiness, and peace has been systematic as everything wicked is being manufactured, packaged, marketed, and distributed to us for the sake of greed and profit.

 

[surv2syn]

I am so proud to be black and wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

[Coco Loco]

I say that all the time. Ain't no way I'm giving up. My ancestors went through way worse, survived and kept going. Black people are the most resilient in the world. They've been trying to stop us for centuries but we're still here striving. I love us!

 

[newworldafro]

Powerful. Energizing.

Nikkas Quadrennial African Americans get inspired every day B

 

[Heafcliffe]

Powerful read. Perspective changer.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Powerful read. Perspective changer.

Yeah.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Everyone ducking this thread I see

 

[Silver Surfer]

LinkedIn ain't the place for any of this stuff

Leave it in facebook where it prevalent

 

[humminbird]

good post, it makes cooperate America look like a kindergarten class.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

So glad that "we are not our ancestors" trend went away.

But yeah that was a good read.

 

[Originalman]

I say that all the time. Ain't no way I'm giving up. My ancestors went through way worse, survived and kept going. Black people are the most resilient in the world. They've been trying to stop us for centuries but we're still here striving. I love us!

Well said

 

[Kairi Irving]

Everyone ducking this thread I see

I have.....matters to attend to



















:Mjcop_pls:

Empowering message though.