I was just thinking about it and was overcome with emotion....
living every day, with no purpose other than serving someone else
having your future in the hands of ur master....not knowing whether or not ur child will be separated from u at the next auction..
"living" and dying on a plantation....treated no better than animals that you fed....
day by day......how did they take it? this is just unimaginable on so many levels...and the fact that I am having such a hard time thinking of the reality of such an existence proves how far we've come , but also how we take our many freedoms for granted....and use them to do things that are so frivolous and unapologetically self serving at times....
My ancestors were so strong....it's gonna take a LOT for me to complain about anything going "wrong" in life for a very long time. I just don't have the right to do it.
we've developed such an acceptive attitude for excuses in our community...granted, many "excuses" have valid and logical basis...but our ancestors would have no doubt taken the BLOCK that we are given today and no doubt stretched it further than the eye could see...as far as they can.
I feel sometimes we could push harder....If I could put myself on a plantation so I can just get a HINT of the desire, humility, and yearning that my ancestors had I am pretty sure I would come back a completely different man.
OK end fucking rant.
