I used the quote by Assata Shakur who is a political activist that talks about us having to gain our own knowledge to learn about our history. Which made me realize that white people stopped African Americans from reading and writing and till this day the white people are trying to stop African Americans and others from learning about the history of our ancestors.
First day of class we got asked two questions “what are the first words that come to mind when you hear the term Africa?” and “who is the wealthiest man alive?” that led us into the introduction of the kingdoms in Africa. When we learned about Mansa Musa I was surprised because I never heard of an African man being one of the richest man alive and this is where I feel like white people deprive the descendants of African Americans of their history about their ancestors. I always knew that there were good places in Africa, but I just never understood why movies and televisions would only show the bad parts of Africa when there are many beautiful places to show for.
As we moved further throughout the unit, the discussions that caught my attention is when we started discussing what is a black/white race, how slavery started and how biracial people came to be. I was very interested when we started talking about this topic because it always occurred to me on how white people can call us all degrading and vulgar names, but still rape and fall in love with our Black women. They raped our women, and the kids could not take their fathers status only because it would have showed that they were sleeping with slaves and that just made a lot of biracial people in the slave era and still to this day. They would advertise about the monsters that they claim that African Americans were, but never saw that within themselves and talked about how they are the true monsters about what they would do to my people.
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