This video here really made me cry! Right now as I type this blog my heart is so hard right now! It is so sad to know that we are the ONLY race who has endured so much pain! This is really sad, but then every other race has the audacity to treat us bad when they have no idea what it feels like to deal with our struggle and pain. This isn't an excuse for us to act out, and it really hurts me to see our people doing each other wrong when we have been done wrong already for so long. Sometimes I wish I could just get on a loud bullhorn and just talk to the whole entire world to express the way I feel about certain subjects at times. Please look at this video and share it with others to remind us of where we came from, where we are now, and how far we still have to go! THE STRUGGLE HAS NOT ENDED!
CREATED EQUAL" THE STORY OF THE CAROLINA SEA ISLANDERS
Sierra Leone sent her jewels and diamonds. not rocks from the earth, but her people. Taken from their homeland in Africa to populate the Carolina Sea Islands. Chosen to work the rice paddy's and indigo.... Stolen from the land of their birth...brought to the new world...
This is their story..... a story of struggle and survival....
This is dedicated to the Spirit of Gullah........ and the memory of those who have gone on.... tribute to the ones still here........ and sorrow for the ones who died in-between.
St. Helena, Daufuskie, Edisto, Frogmore, Hilton Head, Charleston and this is just the beginning.....
Dedicated to the Penn Center on St. Helena Island for the foresight to house the treasure that help bring the story of the Sea Islanders, Gullah Geechee Nations....
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
"CREATED EQUAL" - The Story of the Carolina Sea Islanders - Sierra Leone sent her jewels and diamonds. not rocks from the earth, but her people. Taken from their homeland in Africa to populate the Carolina Sea Islands. Chosen to work the rice paddy's and indigo.... Stolen from the land of their birth...brought to the new world... This is their story..... a story of struggle and survial.... This is dedicated to the Spirit of Gullah........ and the memory of those who have gone on.... tribute to the ones still here........ and sorrow for the ones who died in-between. St. Helena, Daufuskie, Edisto, Frogmore, Hilton Head, Charleston and this is just the beginning..... Dedicated to the Penn Center on St. Helena Island for the foresight to house the treasure that help bring the story of the Sea Islanders, Gullah Geechee Nations
