Remembrance For The Ones Relatively Few Remember
A couple days ago I had a dream. I was walking through a house with my family. But across the yard there was an abandoned house. I crossed the yard to the empty home. When I walked inside the house and looked outside the window, the previously empty yard I walked through had a few trees with black people hanging from the limbs. Thinking I was seeing ghosts I ran back outside. But the vision didn’t go away. There were even more black people hanging from the trees. They were not hanging from a noose around the neck. They were upside down with their feet tied together and arms outstretched to the earth. As I tried to walk back to my family, I saw a white man in white robes looking like the pope sentencing more black people to their deaths. I woke from my dream after that. I spent the rest of that day, and the next, thinking of our African ancestors.
Today is the day that we are supposed to spend in remembrance of our fallen ancestors who were drafted or volunteered to serve this country and paid the ultimate sacrifice to help make this country great. I think more of us ought to spend more time remembering all the unremembered enslaved ancestors who were forced at the end of a whip to serve this country and make it great without so much as a dime in compensation. Where is our national memorial to recognize the sacrifice of all the enslaved Africans and all the Africans who died in the middle passage?
I agree. It would be nice to see a memorial in their honor. Sign me up on that petition. Unfortunately,too many people would protest that “we have moved on”. They do not realize the significance of “moving on” and “reflecting back” as one in the same, as it relates to progress.
You know that this type of talk brings about the complaints that slavery has been over a LONG time, so why keep bringing it up. No one wants to think about the slaves who if not for them this country would NOT be where it is today.
We can grieve for past soldiers, holocaust victims and 9/11 victims until the end of days. But just thinking back on the slaves, who served this country like you said, is problematic for most Americans.
I, like you and Jasonblogz, will be doing my best to honor those fallen Africans from slavery and the middle passage.
Thanks.