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China will always be a memorable trip because of my experience with Africans studying and living in China. To them, I was a young griot who had brought a gift of immeasurable value to them across the oceans, knowledge of our history as a people, and the love of friendship. They in turn transformed my relationship with my continent and my people, my belief in the power of knowing our history, and returning to the United States with the belief that I too will make history by building bridges that connect African-Americans to Africa, and Africans to our people here. Black is not a color; it is an origin that is forever and always, and as long as we hold onto that single essence, our National Black Anthem becomes internationally and universally felt:
…Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. Facing the rising sun, of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won.
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Griot. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 4, 2004, from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
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Young Griot Lazarus Kubasu Nolasco | Apr 8th, 2004
Thanks a lot Kamillah for the courage of sharing your insightful experinces. Indeed your ability to narrate and see the positive side of even negative encounters speaks volumes...wisdom is the ability to abstract good from any experience whether bad or good.. Keep it up and keep on reading hard .
This was an amazing piecee Michael Newton-McLaughlin | Apr 10th, 2004
This was a very good article... you are an excellent writer, and as it sounds, a good orator as well. I am not exactly sure what the American dream is any more... it seems that many people's ideas of an American dream are living oppulently, or at least quite a bit above any kind of subsistence levels. I worry then, if by doing so, we are ignoring many other factors - such as classism- and the fact that if we acheieve a certain amount of wealth, it is at the present moment still at the expense of others.
As the U.S. built this country by taking land through the use of systematic genocide as well as through slave labor... it now continues it's economic growth through imperialism...
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