BIA HISTORY LESSON FOR TODAY...BEING BLACK IN AMERICA IS AN EXPERIENCE SO PLEASE DO ME ONE BIG FAVOR...WHEN "I (438 hits)
SPEAK OF MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES ABOUT LIVING IN THE DEEP SOUTH I AM NOT GETTING IT FROM A BOOK...I DID GET A LOT OF WHY WE AS A PEOPLE DO WHAT WE DO, ACT THE WAY WE ACT AND SPEAK THE WAY WE DO FROM SOME BOOKS...AND, THESE BOOKS ONLY REASURED ME THAT WHAT MY ELDERS TAUGHT WAS/ IS TRUE...
WE CALL THIS OUR ORAL HISTORY...THUS MAKING THOSE WORDS OF HOW OUR BRAIN MAKE UP IS DIFFERENT AS TRUE AND FACTUAL...WE ARE AN ORAL LEARNING PEOPLES AND OUR CULTURE IS NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER CULTURE AS A TRIAL AND ERROR LESSONS FO ROUR SURVIVAL AS A PEOPLE.A PEOPLE MADE UP OF INDIVIDUALS AND NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL AS IN ALL BLACKS ARE ALIKE.(S-M-I-L-E)