#BlackPeople #KeepPushing
By Jo Breeze
Soooooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs, and traditions…picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless over-seers…took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping…Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, averted their eyes at the Black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees…fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys…Marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoes in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood, and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era, to make sure you would get here. And you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People you will never know who survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t quit. Don’t you dare let them down… #BlackPeople #KeepPushing
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