Freshman Seminar Lectures

The lectures for this course all emphasized the need to recognize our correct history to re-educate ourselves. We cannot move on intellectually or expect to be intellectually free, as Dr. Carr stated, without recognizing the flaw in how we are being educated. We cannot limit ourselves to the confines of the American society because we are African Americans. Researching our past will allow us to advance our current way of thinking. We must research our past, the real past. We must find out our African roots all the way back to classical Africa and confirm that they are accurate. Once we correctly see where we came from we can move on and grow from that because we have the right foundation. We must continue to emphasize and recognize our contributions to white society, so we can be taught accurately. Recognizing and emphasizing the African presence will allow intellectual freedom. I believe just hearing these lectures have made me more intellectually free.