I saw a tweet on Twitter today where a woman told a guy to read a book on African American history. I’m assuming that she meant reading about our ancestors and learning about their genetic information that deals with their hair etc. Sfter this guy made a tweet about how he didn’t think African American women looked right with afros. I wish I could put the tweet in this article but she deleted her response to him. None the less her tweet gave me inspiration to write this edition of Young Nigga Mentality.
To be honest I never really had an interest in finding out about my ancestor’s history. I can imagine some people reading this and thinking, “How could he say such a thing?!?!?” Hear me out. I feel like worrying about how my ancestors lived would be a waste of time, for me at least. I don’t want to hear that they were slaves or even if they were royalty. Does that make me ignorant because I don’t want to learn about my people? Maybe, but in my mind I feel like I should be focused on the future rather than be fixated on the past.
I’m not saying that I’m completely against learning about my ancestor’s history. But, at this present time it isn’t something that catches my interest. I personally feel like my ancestors would want me to achieve the goals that I’m working towards instead of focusing on the past and learning about things that I already assume to have happened, and probably did happen. The fact that I acknowledge this and accept this shouldn’t make me ignorant but maybe wise in some way. Just a random though in the mind of a young nigga. Peace.
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To be honest I never really had an interest in finding out about my ancestor’s history. I can imagine some people reading this and thinking, “How could he say such a thing?!?!?” Hear me out. I feel like worrying about how my ancestors lived would be a waste of time, for me at least. I don’t want to hear that they were slaves or even if they were royalty. Does that make me ignorant because I don’t want to learn about my people? Maybe, but in my mind I feel like I should be focused on the future rather than be fixated on the past.
I’m not saying that I’m completely against learning about my ancestor’s history. But, at this present time it isn’t something that catches my interest. I personally feel like my ancestors would want me to achieve the goals that I’m working towards instead of focusing on the past and learning about things that I already assume to have happened, and probably did happen. The fact that I acknowledge this and accept this shouldn’t make me ignorant but maybe wise in some way. Just a random though in the mind of a young nigga. Peace.
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I’m currently reading a book by a Notre Dame political philosopher called Why Liberalism Failed. Liberalism (if you aren’t sure) was basically the founding principle of this country that suggests that everyone has the right to individually pursue whatever the hell they want. Of course slaves weren’t considered individuals, but that’s not the point yet. The author says that one of the ways in which this failed is because it was a completely different idea of the word liberty than what it had been in the past. For example, liberty, or at least the pursuit of it, was most commonly and importantly achieved through education; the liberal arts, through learning about history, political theory, essentially, why things were the way they were. For you could not truly be free to effectively operate in this world and achieve liberty if you were ignorant to the integral components of our being.
ReplyDeleteI believe ancestry, both human and ethnic, are incredibly important things to not only adequately investigate but to accept and embrace. Like religion, understanding how we’ve come to be amounts to wisdom that will enable you to navigate life, the world, and ultimately your spirit in very critical ways.
Know where you come from. Know what is within you and has been passed down onto you. It will free you and empower you in ways unparalleled.