Dismemberment

This week's lecture was filled with a lot of new knowledge that I had not know of before! I took more than three pages of notes, and am still fascinated by the things I learned! To start off with, we learned so much on the 'negro past' and how it made the nation and world that we are living in today. I didn’t know that the regular African American had such a history that is hidden from us on a daily basis. There were many things that were developed from Africans such as self-governance and resistance, social structures, and science and technology. With self-governance, African Americans taught themselves how to live in places that the ‘white man’ couldn’t live in such as swamps and forests. This was prominent in areas such as Brazil and the Caribbean. The social structures that were formed had to do with the modeling of the family patterns and the prominent role of the mother and elders. With the white man imposing Africans to be laborers, servants, etc., it was hard for them to see how Africans themselves held a role structure, despite the fact that it is applied in the current society today. When dealing with science and technology, many of the teachings used in agriculture cultivation came from Africans. So overall, this and many more proofs just shows how Africa really is the cradle of civilization! The problem is, we’re not taught this information in regular schools, which makes most of our people unknown that our ancestors are this intelligent! We have to start spreading this truth bit by bit, lecture by lecture, in order to show the world how great of a people we actually are!